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A painting of comic book hero Tintin that for years was kept folded in a drawer is to go on sale at a Paris auction house on Thursday with an estimated sale price of more than 2 million euros.

The United Kingdom on Wednesday reported 1,564 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test from COVID19, a record daily toll, with the number of cases also rising slightly on the day before.

Rebels in Central African Republic attacked the capital early on Wednesday, but were repelled by President FaustinArchange Touadera's security forces and United Nations peacekeepers, authorities said, in an escalation of an election conflict.

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis approved on Wednesday a request from anticorruption prosecutors to allow a criminal investigation against former prime minister and senate speaker Calin Popescu Tariceanu for suspected bribetaking.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday tougher restrictions brought in last week were starting to have an effect on the spread of COVID in some parts of the country, cautioning that it was still early days.

Presidentelect Joe Biden has selected Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President Barack Obama, to run the U.S. Agency for International Development. That's the agency that oversees U.S. foreign humanitarian and development a...

A South Korean court acquitted on Wednesday the leader of a Christian sect charged with obstructing efforts to stamp out one of the world's first big surges of novel coronavirus infections, the Yonhap news agency said.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that a coronavirus relief bill will be the top priority for his caucus but added that the recent violence at the Capitol shows the need to confirm Presidentelect Joe Bidens national security team on day...

Coronavirusinduced lockdowns caused annual traffic congestion to fall in most countries for the first time in at least 10 years, disrupting longheld traffic patterns like the dreaded morning commute to work, a report released on Tuesday showed.

Legal challenges were being fought across multiple federal courts on whether to allow Tuesday's scheduled execution of convicted murderer Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row in the United States, who doctors say is braindamaged and mental...

Trump, speaking as he boarded Marine One at the White House for a trip to Texas, called his likely impeachment in the House of Representatives on Wednesday a "continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the history of politics."

American casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who built lavish gambling palaces that made him one of the world's richest men and became a potent supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has died at age 87.

Egypt reopened its airspace to Qatari flights on Tuesday and will allow the resumption of air traffic between the two countries as part of a thaw in relations with the Gulf state, officials said.

British authorities have had to set up a temporary morgues in some areas after local hospital mortuaries ran out of space due to a surge in deaths caused by the COVID19 pandemic.

Ukrainian pharmaceutical company Lekhim plans to deliver 5 million doses of China's Sinovac COVID19 vaccine to Ukraine in the first half of 2021, the company told Reuters on Tuesday.

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Tuesday that Russia's prison authority has asked a court to jail him for having allegedly broken the terms of a suspended sentence he has been serving.