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The leader of one of the parties in Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's ruling coalition joined opposition lawmakers Wednesday in criticizing the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis, and in particular of a decision to make some quarantine measur...

On a farm in France, firefighters beat down the flames that had turned a field of wheat black, but they were too late to save the combine harvester. Caught in the blaze, it belched out flames and thick smoke while the farmer looked on helpless.

Emergency service were dealing with the derailment of a train near Stonehaven on the east coast of Scotland on Wednesday, police said, as video footage on social media showed smoke rising from the scene.

President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine, after less than two months of human testing.

England sought to defuse a looming row over the awarding of school qualifications during the pandemic by allowing students to use the results of earlier tests, in a lastminute change following an outcry in Scotland.

The decision of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) to nominate Finance Minister Olaf Scholz as chancellor candidate has given the centreleft party a popularity boost, helping them to surpass the Greens in a poll published on Wednesday.

The U.K. economy has officially fallen into a recession after official figures showed it contracting by a record 20.4% in the second quarter as a result of lockdown measures put in place to counter the coronavirus pandemic.

The boisterous rallies have brought out a new breed of first-time protesters young, middle-class Israelis who have little history of political activity but feel that Netanyahus scandal-plagued rule and his handling of the coronavirus crisis have robbed t...

AMERICA DISRUPTED-LATINO VOTE REGISTRATION Chart. Voter registration among Latinos in North Carolina has dropped off in 2020 compared to the same period in 2016. This chart shows the number of registered Latino voters in the state from January through Ju...

Australia recorded its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday and the biggest daily rise in infections in three days, denting hopes that a second wave gripping the state of Victoria may be stabilising.

Minneapolis police bodycamera videos of George Floyd's fatal arrest showed him begging for an officer to remove a knee from his neck in the moments before his death.

Bolsonaro last year similarly denied a spike in fires that provoked a global outcry, with the right-wing populist trading barbs with French President Emmanuel Macron and other world leaders.

The little girl ran up to her, wideeyed and giddy.

China's top legislature has decided to extend the mandate for the current group of Hong Kong lawmakers for a year from its expiry date of Sept. 30, after a scheduled election was delayed, state media reported on Tuesday.

Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanouskaya said on Tuesday she had fled abroad for the sake of her children after strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko's claim of victory in Sunday's presidential election prompted bloody street protests.

The European Union said Tuesday it won't send observers to monitor Venezuela's upcoming congressional election, citing a lack of fair conditions for a vote that could erase the opposition's last major domestic stronghold of power.