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The United States, Britain and Canada plan to impose sanctions on Belarusian individuals following what they view as a rigged election on Aug. 9 and violence against peaceful protesters since, six sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

The European Unions top migration officials struggled Thursday to sell their new plan to overhaul the blocs failed asylum system amid concern they have sold out to antimigrant governments.

Europe's top court issued a ruling Thursday that should ensure Germany can keep in prison a new suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who vanished from a Portuguese resort 13 years ago.

The United Nations commission on human rights in South Sudan says a staggering $36 million has been misappropriated by government officials and senior politicians since 2016 as widespread corruption continues to drain the worlds youngest nation.

Civic leaders in Marseille reacted with anger on Thursday to the closure of the city's bars and restaurants, saying they had not been consulted by the French government which ordered the measures to contain an upsurge in COVID19 cases.

The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) said on Thursday a move by police to narrow the definition of "media representatives" allowed at public events such as protests could limit scrutiny on law enforcers.

The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID19, the illness caused by the virus.

Australian officials on Thursday began planning the grim task of disposing of almost 400 whale carcasses as hopes faded there would be many more survivors of one of the world's biggest mass strandings of the mammals.

Since Joe Biden ran away with the Democratic presidential nomination in March, leading progressives have accepted him sometimes grudgingly as their party's leader. But, in the final weeks of the campaign, the Supreme Court vacancy is threatening to infl...

The man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan may soon get the most freedom he's had since since the shooting outside a Washington hotel in 1981.

The Latest on a grand jury's decision not to indict police officers on criminal charges directly related to Breonna Taylor's death:

Facing an economic meltdown and other crises, Lebanons president on Wednesday asked for the world's help to rebuild the capital's main port and neighborhoods that were blown away in last months catastrophic explosion.

A group of Saudi dissidents, most of them in exile, on Wednesday announced the formation of a party to push for political reform in Saudi Arabia in defiance of de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who has moved to crush any dissent.

Two Russian diplomats accused of spying by Bulgarian prosecutors will be expelled from the country, Bulgarias foreign ministry announced on Wednesday.

Mozambique has asked the European Union for support in tackling a wave of militant attacks in the country's north by rebels with links to Islamic State, a conflict that has raised fears for stability and security in southern Africa.

Bob Woodward's Rage sold more than 600,000 copies in its first week of publication, continuing a yearlong wave of blockbuster books about President Donald Trump.