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The United States on Wednesday hit back at a U.N. women's rights panel that said some U.S. states limited access to abortions during the COVID19 pandemic, rejecting its interference and the notion of "an assumed right to abortion".

Workers in bright yellow vests stand on the dock in Greeces main port of Piraeus, greeting hundreds of masked ferry passengers with fliers and the occasional temperature check.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will hold closeddoor meetings Wednesday with Bahrain's royal family and top officials in the United Arab Emirates amid the Trump administration's push for Arab nations to recognize Israel.

In three decades of failed peace efforts, the Palestinians have never faced a more hostile U.S. administration, a more selfassured Israel or a more ambivalent international community.

Poised over the piano, Carole King was set to play I Feel the Earth Move during a recent virtual fundraiser for Joe Biden when the Democratic presidential nominee himself beat her to it.

Vice President Mike Pence shuttled through the Capitol's empty, drafty hallways one blustery winter day in search of a breakthrough.

Republicans pressed their case on Tuesday for U.S. President Donald Trump's reelection over Democrat Joe Biden, arguing as their convention opened for a second day that Trump's leadership was vital to the country's economic and political future.

The former head of a pharmaceutical company was arrested Tuesday in California on insider trading charges, accused of feeding secrets that enabled friends and family to earn over $700,000 illegally.

Ranked choice voting wont be used in the presidential race this November in Maine after a judge allowed a Republicanled referendum that would let voters decide whether to use the voting system in future presidential elections.

Cooler weather helped firefighters battle some of the largest and most ferocious wildfires in California history on Tuesday as authorities searched for four missing people in one blaze.

Tanzanias main opposition parties failed to form a coalition Tuesday, dashing hopes of teaming up to defeat the longtime ruling party in the October presidential election.

About 3,700 people in Sweden were told in error that they had the coronavirus due to a fault in a COVID19 testing kit from China, the Public Health Agency said on Tuesday.

The British government came under renewed pressure Tuesday to recommend high school students in England wear face masks, at least in communal areas such as hallways, after the advice in Scotland was changed.

The mayor of Tuscaloosa announced Monday that the city is closing bars for the next two weeks after University of Alabama officials described an unacceptable" rise in COVID-19 cases that could derail plans to continue the semester on campus.

Talks with the U.N. nuclear watchdog's chief were constructive, Iran's top nuclear official Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying on Tuesday, after meeting Rafael Grossi during a visit to seek access for inspectors to two suspected former atomic sites.