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Germany will impose an emergency monthlong lockdown that includes the closure of restaurants, gyms and theatres to reverse a spike in coronavirus cases that risks overwhelming hospitals, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday.

Less than a week before Election Day, Joe Biden is tantalizingly close to a prize that has eluded generations of Democratic presidential candidates: Texas.

In the historically black neighborhoods of Waco, Texas, the usual getoutthevote activities in this presidential election year were upended by the pandemic.

President Alassane Ouattara will face three challengers when he seeks reelection on Saturday after a decade in power. But his main rivals, former president Henri Konan Bedie and former prime minister Pascal Affi N'Guessan, have urged their supporters to b...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will announce next week a plan for fresh stimulus to help the recessionstricken economy shake off the coronavirus crisis, four government and ruling party sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is being put under pressure for a new lockdown with the government working on the assumption the second wave of coronavirus will be more deadly than the first, the Telegraph newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Fugitive Venezuelan opposition politician Leopoldo Lopez said on Tuesday he would use his newlywon freedom in Spain to convince more countries to condemn President Nicolas Maduro's government as dictatorial and support democratic change.

Daniel Menaker, an awardwinning author of fiction and nonfiction and a longtime editor at The New Yorker and Random House who worked with Alice Munro, Salman Rushdie, Colum McCann and many others, has died at age 79.

A Minnesota Republican candidate's bid to delay voting in his congressional race to February due to the death of a thirdparty candidate was rejected Tuesday at the Supreme Court.

Mexico's National Guard announced Tuesday that six of its members have been arrested in the death of a woman killed when Guard troops allegedly opened fire on her vehicle.

Russia has become one of the first countries to apply to WHO for prequalification of its vaccine against the novel coronavirus infection.

The number of new coronavirus infections in Germany is likely to reach 20,000 a day by the end of the week, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said on Tuesday, as authorities readied new curbs to break the second wave of the pandemic.

When Captain Will Whatley guides a ship through Arctic waters, he is starkly aware of what can go wrong.

France warned its citizens living or travelling in several Muslimmajority countries to take extra security precautions on Tuesday as anger surged over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.

Bosnian police on Tuesday detained two Serb exsoldiers accused of taking part in the murder of at least 78 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) civilians early in the Bosnian war of the 1990s, the state prosecution said in a statement.