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President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who was recently hospitalized with COVID19, will attend a virtual hearing this week with Georgia lawmakers over Trump's flagging effort to overturn his U.S. election loss, a source said on Tuesday.

Iran's Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against a dissident journalist who was captured in 2019 after years in exile in France, the judiciary said on Tuesday.

Deep differences within Italy's ruling coalition over the future of Monte dei Paschi (MPS) could come to a head this week as parliament starts voting on next year's budget.

Three females named Zala, Nima and Run Run and Kiumbe, a male, were tested after keepers noticed they showed slight symptoms of coronavirus.

Canada will start receiving its first doses of Pfizer Inc's COVID19 vaccine before the end of December, sooner than expected, with millions more to follow in early 2021, officials said on Monday.

Romania's opposition Social Democrats (PSD) have taken the lead in Sunday's national election, seen as pivotal for the country's future in the European mainstream, according to partial results on Monday, but are unlikely to form the next government.

Japan is preparing to send nurses from the SelfDefense Forces to Osaka and Hokkaido to help treat a surge in coronavirus infections as soon as the two prefecture governments request it, chief government spokesman Katsunobu Kato said on Monday.

Australia's secondlargest city welcomed its first international passenger flight in five months on Monday, an arrival that will test the state of Victoria's revamped hotel quarantine system.

Thousands of demonstrators marched in the Belarus capital Minsk and elsewhere on Sunday as weekly protests demanding the resignation of veteran President Alexander Lukashenko continued, prompting police to detain more than 100 people.

Former Hong Kong lawmaker Ted Hui said on Sunday his local bank accounts appeared to have been frozen after fled to Britain with his family to continue his prodemocracy activities.

Garaufis directed the Department of Homeland Security to post a public notice "displayed prominently" on its websites by Monday announcing that it is accepting new DACA applications. The judge also ordered that the notice make clear that employment author...

Iran’s Supreme Court has agreed to retry three men over links to last year’s antigovernment protests and whose death sentences have been suspended, the state IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday there was momentum behind talks on a coronavirus relief bill and that a bipartisan COVID19 proposal could be the basis for relief negotiations.

Firefighters battling a blaze in a Southern California canyon made some progress toward containment but were up against more high winds and low humidity on Friday, which threatened to stoke the flames as they tore through wooded hillsides.

The leader of Ethiopia's rebellious Tigrayan forces said on Friday that protests were breaking out in the regional capital which fell to federal troops days ago in their monthlong war.

Britain hopes for millions of doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID19 vaccine by the end of the year but the final figure will depend on how quickly it can be manufactured, Britain's business minister Alok Sharma said on Friday.