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U.S. environmental activists are heaping pressure on Democratic presidentelect Joe Biden to avoid cabinet appointees with fossil fuel ties, with one group on Tuesday slamming his pick of a congressman who received donations from the oil and gas industry.

The U.S. Justice Department is dropping its drug trafficking and money laundering against former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday.

U.S. doctors and nurses, in a letter published on Tuesday, urged the Trump administration to share critical COVID19 data with Presidentelect Joe Biden's transition team to avoid unnecessary delays in tackling the pandemic as infections and hospitalization...

Morocco has finished building a sand barrier in a U.N.monitored buffer zone in Western Sahara, Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Otmani told Reuters on Tuesday, after the Polisario Front independence movement withdrew from a ceasefire.

Iran's health minister warned on Tuesday that coronavirus deaths may more than double soon if Iranians flout rules aimed at containing the virus, as new cases surged to a record high in the Middle East's worsthit country.

Saudi Arabia has told Yemen's Houthis in highlevel back channel talks it would sign a UN proposal for a nationwide ceasefire if the Iranaligned group agrees to a buffer zone along the kingdom's borders, three sources familiar with the matter said.

Denmark's minority government finally gained parliamentary support on Tuesday to legalise the cull it ordered earlier this month of all farmed mink to prevent the spread of coronavirus, but a poll showed public trust had plummeted over the crisis.

A military patrol has discovered 29 bodies in a region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where civilians are facing a sharp rise in attacks by Islamist militants, local authorities said on Tuesday.

Europe will not be able to provide for its own security without the help of the United States and NATO for decades to come, German Defence Minister Annegret KrampKarrenbauer said, rejecting French President Emmanuel Macron's idea of a European strategic a...

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Tuesday Japan and Australia had reached a broad agreement on their bilateral defence pact.

Ethiopia's National Defense Forces carried out "precision led and surgical air operations" outside of Tigray's capital Makelle, the government's emergency taskforce said on Tuesday, amid a near twoweek long conflict with defiant local leaders.

A Senate panel is calling on the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter to defend their handling of disinformation in the contest between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden. But the senators are deeply divided by party over the integrity and results of t...

Brent Impey has quit as chairman of southern hemisphere rugby body SANZAAR, saying the fournation organization is outdated and in urgent need of change.

The Pentagon failed its comprehensive audit in fiscal 2020, the third year it has failed since the first audit was conducted in 2018, reflecting system and accounting problems across its vast bureaucracy that could persist until 2027, the department's com...

Member states have said there is still room for India to join RCEP. Anyone can join RCEP 18 months after it comes into force but India, as one of the original negotiating partners, can join at any time once the deal comes into effect.

A suspected Islamist gunman who opened fire aboard a highspeed train travelling through northern Europe but was overpowered by three U.S. citizens before he killed anyone goes on trial on Monday in the French capital.