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Long queues formed outside coronavirus testing centres in Slovakia on Saturday, as the country embarked on a bid to test most of the country's 5.5 million inhabitants over a single weekend.

At least three people were killed and more than 50 injured in a gas pipeline explosion in southern Iraq, police sources said on Saturday.

The latest travel advisory by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Friday divides international travellers into two categories.

Voters in Georgia will cast ballots Saturday in a parliamentary election hotly contested between the governing party, founded by a billionaire, and an alliance around the country's expresident who's in selfimposed exile in Ukraine another former Soviet r...

After signs expressing support for Democratic candidate Joe Biden disappeared twice from a road outside Newtown, Pennsylvania, Gayle Share-Raab covered the next one in vaseline and glitter to try to deter the thief, but to no avail.

The Associated Press, one of several news organizations whose declarations of winners drive election coverage, is pulling back the curtain this year to explain how it is reaching those conclusions.

On the steps of a Bucharest court on Friday, Adrian Albu pointed to his sister among the pictures of the 65 people who died in a nightclub fire five years ago, triggering mass protests across Romania at a culture of graft and lack of accountability.

Harris comes into the November 3 election already a repeat trailblazer as California's first Black attorney general and the first woman of South Asian heritage elected to the US Senate.

Tanzania's President John Magufuli was reelected for a second, fiveyear term on Friday, securing a huge victory in a contest that has been dismissed by the opposition as a "travesty" due to widespread irregularities.

Tens of thousands of Poles joined a march in Warsaw on Friday, the biggest in nine days of protests against a ruling by the country's top court last week that amounted to a neartotal ban on abortion in the predominantly Catholic nation.

Thailand's dutyfree privileges for some $817 million in exports to the United States will be revoked starting Dec. 30, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Friday, citing a lack of progress in opening the Thai market to U.S. pork products.

The country, which has seen a resurgence of its Covid-19 outbreak since mid-October, recorded 94,125 new cases in the 24 hours up to 8:30 pm Friday.

Ivory Coast goes to the polls on Saturday as President Alassane Ouattara seeks a third term in an election two rival candidates have urged their supporters to boycott.

Chase Standage, a U.S. Naval Academy midshipman facing expulsion over social media posts, sees himself as a casualty of a campus culture war." Academy leaders say the damage to his military career was selfinflicted.

A power company under investigation for its role in an alleged $60 million bribery scheme involving one of Ohios most powerful politicians fired its chief executive following an internal review.

Thai police carried one of the country's most high profile protest leaders apparently unconscious from a van on Friday, as he and two others were rearrested just as they reached the limit for their detention.