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Switzerland's financial market oversight body said Wednesday that it has opened enforcement proceedings against Credit Suisse in the wake of a spying scandal that has marred the image of the elite bank.

Australias economy has suffered its sharpest quarterly drop since the Great Depression because of the pandemic, with data released on Wednesday confirming the country is experiencing its first recession in 28 years.

The United Arab Emirates recorded over 500 new COVID19 infections for the second successive day on Tuesday after a rise in cases in the Middle East financial hub.

President Donald Trump is recycling a baseless conspiracy theory to claim that recent protests have been orchestrated by powerful people in dark shadows intent on undermining his reelection prospects.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday gave Lebanese politicians until the end of October to start delivering on reforms or else financial aid would be withheld, and sanctions imposed further down the line if there is proven corruption.

A migrant woman who tested positive to coronavirus has given birth to a baby on board a helicopter as she was flying to Sicily from the small southern Italian island of Lampedusa, the Sicilian regional government said on Tuesday.

The torrid coronavirus summer across the Sun Belt is easing after two disastrous months that brought more than 35,000 deaths. Whether the outbreak will heat up again after Labor Day and the resumption of school and football in the land of Friday Night Lig...

British lawmakers returned to Parliament on Tuesday after a sixweek summer break, with Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic setting the stage for a turbulent fall.

Thailands finance minister resigned unexpectedly Tuesday after less than a month in the job, in which he was responsible for helping restore an economy slammed by the coronavirus.

The Tunisian parliament is holding a confidence vote Tuesday on a new prime minister and his proposed government as the North African country faces deep economic crisis worsened by the coronavirus pandemic and after a conflictofinterest scandal pushed out...

Police in North Macedonia say they have arrested three men on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks in the country and have seized a large quantity of weapons in raids in five locations in the countrys north.

Many Indian states eased lockdown restrictions on Tuesday, allowing more businesses and public areas to reopen to reduce economic pain caused by the coronavirus, even as the country's new daily infections remain the highest in the world and its confirmed...

Turkey is open to dialogue with Greece to solve disagreements over Mediterranean rights and resources as long as Athens is too, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday.

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck near the coast of Northern Chile on Tuesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said, with local media reporting some damage and minor landslides in areas near the epicenter.

A police officer made a video appearance in an Outback court on Tuesday for a preliminary hearing on a charge that he murdered a 19yearold Indigenous man who was shot dead in a desert community.

President Donald Trump on Monday sided with a 17year old charged with killing two people during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, saying the accused gunman was trying to get away and would have been killed by demonstrators if he had not opened fire.