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The U.N. drug agency's member states on Wednesday narrowly voted to remove cannabis from the most tightly controlled category of narcotic drugs, following the World Health Organization's recommendation to make research into its medical use easier.

French health authorities on Wednesday reported 14,064 new COVID19 infections over the past 24 hours, up from Tuesday's 8,083, while hospitalisations for the disease continued a downward trend.

Actor Gal Gadot has found a new starring vehicle in upcoming Skydance spy film series "Heart of Stone". Tom Harper, who most recently directed Amazon's "The Aeronauts", will helm the movie, which is expected to launch a new franchise in the genre, repor...

The concern is that the longer the impasse remains, the chances of a new alternative emerging grows. And this is something which none of the political parties want.

West Indies captain Jason Holder won an important toss and chose to bowl Thursday on the first day of the first cricket test against New Zealand at Seddon Park.

Iran's Guardian Council watchdog body approved a law on Wednesday that obliges the government to halt U.N. inspections of its nuclear sites and step up uranium enrichment beyond the limit set under Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal if sanctions are not eased in...

The VVPAT slips were counted in 1,215 randomly selected polling stations of Bihar to match with the votes counted in the corresponding EVMs.

Namibia has put 170 "high value" wild elephants up for sale due to drought and an increase in elephant numbers, the southern African country's environmental ministry said on Wednesday.

Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee political legend who forged a productive path as a Senate institutionalist after tours as governor and Cabinet secretary, said goodbye to the chamber on Wednesday, advising his colleagues to seek broadly backed, durable s...

Like thousands of others fleeing to Sudan from the conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, 20yearold Girum left his family and many of his possessions behind.

World equity benchmarks hovered near record highs and the dollar remained near 21/2year lows on Wednesday as investors weighed the first approval of a coronavirus vaccine and the prospects for more U.S. economic stimulus with disappointing American jobs d...

Kenya's tourism sector lost close to $1 billion in revenue between January and October, when numbers of foreign visitors fell by two thirds due to COVID19, the tourism ministry said on Wednesday.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday said that it was adding two shorter selfquarantine periods recommended after potential exposure to the coronavirus to seven days with a negative test and 10 for without a test.

Israel edged closer on Wednesday towards a fourth national election in two years after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main governing partner, Benny Gantz, backed an opposition move to dissolve parliament.

Armenia said on Wednesday it had dropped some of the martial law restrictions it imposed in September when war broke out between ethnic Armenians in the enclave of NagornoKarabakh and Azeri forces.

If farmers had to suffer due to MSP, Chautala will resign from his post, the party said. It has also asked the Centre to resolve the demands of the farmers related to MSP as soon as possible.