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No Iranian ships or gasoline cargoes have been seized, an unnamed official told Iran's state news agency on Friday, following reports that four Iranian fuel cargoes had been transferred to other ships for transport to U.S. waters.

The French government has declared Paris and the BouchesduRhone area around Marseille on the Mediterranean coast as "red" zones with a high coronavirus infection risk, according to a government decree published on Friday.

NEW DELHI Indias coronavirus death toll overtook Britain to become the fourth-highest in the world with another single-day record increase in cases Friday.

Iranian fuel cargoes targeted by a U.S. warrant for seizure were transferred to other ships for transporting to U.S. waters, a U.S. government source said on Thursday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un lifted a three week lockdown in the city of Kaesong and nearby areas, after a man who defected to the South returned to the border town last month showing coronavirus symptoms, state media said on Friday.

The few, the brave those were the people returning this week to movie theaters in Mexico City that had been closed for four months due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Belarusian leadership began releasing thousands of detainees and issued a rare public apology on Thursday in a bid to quell nationwide street protests that pose the biggest challenge to strongman President Alexander Lukashenko's 26year rule.

Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, on Thursday promised to show how Trump cheated in the 2016 election with Russian help in an upcoming book titled "Disloyal, A Memoir."

President Donald Trump on Thursday managed to pull off a rare victory for U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East ahead of his Nov. 3 reelection bid by helping to broker a deal between American allies Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

Hillary Clinton on Thursday said she hopes Senator Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee, and women running for political office in the future will receive "less sexist" media coverage than she did in 2016.

The leader of the state of Bavaria, a possible successor to Angela Merkel as the conservative candidate for chancellor, apologised on Thursday for a coronavirus bungle that meant some 900 people who had tested positive were not told about it.

Florida police arrested a man after finding more than two dozen pipe bombs, including some that contained nails, screws and metal pellets.

Thousands of schoolleaving children in Britain were left distraught Thursday after being handed lowerthanexpected grades, with many questioning how the results were calculated after the coronavirus pandemic cancelled exams that are key for college applica...

Workers from staterun industrial plants joined tens of thousands of people on a fifth day of protests against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, despite a violent crackdown that has prompted the West to consider new sanctions.

Police say at least one person has been stabbed in Norways secondlargest city and a suspect has been detained.

An Africawide study of antibodies to the coronavirus has begun, while evidence from a smaller study indicates that many more people have been infected than official numbers show, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.