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Britain's Conservative Party and the main opposition Labour Party are tied in a new opinion poll, the first time the governing party has not been ahead for more than a year.

A Hong Kong prodemocracy union of healthcare workers and several activists, including Joshua Wong, called on Sunday for a boycott of the government's universal coronavirus testing plan, in which medical staff from mainland China are set to assist.

Israel hopes to hold a Washington ceremony solemnising its normalisation deal with the United Arab Emirates by midSeptember, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet said on Sunday.

Randall Kenan, an author whose stories explored the experience of being Black and gay in the American South, has died. He was 57.

A prominent lawyer in Haiti was shot and killed at his home, police said Saturday.

About 700 adventurous swimmers plunged into the fastflowing waters of the Danube in Budapest on Saturday, enjoying an unusual view of the city's famous bridges as they swam across the longest river in the European Union.

The United Nations on Saturday voiced alarm over what it called a dramatic turn of events in Libya's civil war, after a power struggle between leaders of the Tripolibased government surfaced in the wake of anticorruption protests.

Thousands of protesters demonstrated in the Mauritius capital Port Louis on Saturday to demand an investigation into an oil spill from a Japanese ship and the mysterious death of at least 40 dolphins that have been found near the site of the spill.

Pat Newell backed Donald Trump in 2016.

Two years after a conservative commentator told LeBron James to "shut up and dribble," the NBA star has become an increasingly influential political force as issues of racial justice and voter suppression move to the forefront in the November presidential...

A Chinese national who is a researcher at a California university was arrested and charged with destroying a computer hard drive during an FBI investigation into the possible transfer of sensitive software to China, the U.S. Justice Department said on Fri...

Facebook  Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday the company was at fault for not removing the page and event for a militia group before two people were killed at a protest in Kenosha and deemed it "largely an operational mistake".

Fresh off accepting the Republican Partys nomination, President Donald Trump is looking to spread fear about the implications of a Joe Biden victory to voters in battleground states with just over two months until Election Day.

France reported 7,379 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Friday, the most since lockdown, in what the health ministry described as an exponential surge just days before millions of children are due to return to school for the first time since March.

Taking issue with Sen. Mitch McConnell's caution in addressing the nation's racial discord, a former university president in Kentucky on Friday urged the Republican majority leader to speak out against President Donald Trump's efforts to create a greater...