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An American newspaper says one of its journalists was detained and then expelled from Chinas Inner Mongolia region while covering tensions over a new policy that reduces the use of the Mongolian language in education.

Army Chief General MM Naravane on Thursday had carried out a comprehensive review of the security situation in the eastern Ladakh region.

The dollar's downtrend will continue into next year, driven largely by the U.S. Federal Reserve's shift to a new policy framework, although expectations for a deep fall in a sustained way have waned somewhat from last month, a Reuters poll found.

A judge on Thursday ordered rapper Kanye West's name removed from presidential ballots in Virginia.

Apple is delaying a new privacy feature in the next version of its iPhone operating system that will make it more difficult for app makers to track people online to help sell digital ads.

A 16-year-old from New Hampshire successfully swam across the English Channel, completing a 33-mile (53-kilometer) swim by reaching a sandy beach in France after darkness fell.

A man drove a pickup truck into a retention pond outside a Florida courthouse on Wednesday, authorities said.

A hedge fund founder was arrested Thursday on charges that he defrauded creditors of the luxury department store chain Neiman Marcus by pressuring an investment bank not to bid against his hedge fund in buying securities from the creditors.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are seeking an investigation into what they call repeated violations of the federal Hatch Act by members of the Trump administration during last month's Republican National Convention.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Trump administration have informally agreed to keep a stopgap governmentwide funding bill needed to avert a shutdown at the end of this month free of controversy or conflict.

Any effort to extend the 2020 census beyond the end of September would be costly and burden the agency that runs it, government attorneys said in response to cities and civil rights groups who want another month to ensure that minority communities aren't...

The MTP Act permits medical termination of pregnancy with the consent of one or more doctors within 20 weeks of such pregnancy. One can terminate a pregnancy beyond 20 weeks only if courts conclude that the pregnancy poses a threat to the life or health o...

Nana weakened to a tropical storm from a hurricane as it moved into Guatemala and southeastern Mexico, bringing heavy rains that have caused only minimal damage, the U.S. National Hurricane Center and local authorities said on Thursday.

A prominent former opposition politician in Cambodia had his ban on political activities lifted Thursday after the government approved his request for political rehabilitation.

The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell below 1 million last week for the second time since the COVID19 pandemic started in the United States, but that does not signal a strong recovery in the labour market.

The Marthas Vineyard estate of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is being sold to a pair of nonprofits that plan on turning the property into conservation land open to the public, officials said Thursday.