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German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants state premiers on Wednesday to agree to close all restaurants and bars from Nov. 4 in a bid to curb coronavirus infections but keep schools and nurseries open, a draft resolution seen by Reuters showed.

At least 26 fishermen were missing at sea as one of the strongest typhoons in two decades tore into Vietnam's central coastline on Wednesday, uprooting trees and forcing hundreds of thousands into shelter.

Top Turkish officials condemned a caricature scorning President Tayyip Erdogan in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, calling it a "disgusting effort" to "spread its cultural racism and hatred".

President Donald Trumps campaign has a bold theory for how he will win reelection: It can tap a universe of millions of supporters who did not vote for him in 2016 but will do so this time.

Bulgaria is closing nightclubs and discos and students from high schools and universities will study online for two weeks as of Oct. 29 as it grapples to contain a surge in coronavirus infections, the health ministry said on Tuesday.

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Six gunmen on motorbikes with AK47 assault rifles kidnapped an American man from his home on the edge of a rural village in southern Niger in the early hours of Tuesday, multiple sources said.

Armenia acknowledged overnight that NagornoKarabakh forces had withdrawn from a strategic town between the enclave and the Iranian border, an apparent military gain for Azerbaijan as a new U.S.brokered ceasefire failed to end a month of fighting.

The estimates suggest that more than 6,100 Covid deaths in Britain could be attributed to air pollution. In the US that figure is around 40,000.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday the White House has refused to sign on to Democratic lawmakers' plan for a coronavirus testing strategy, despite earlier public statements to the contrary by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

Winddriven walls of flame prompted mass evacuations in Southern California and badly injured two firefighters on Monday, as hundreds of thousands of residents endured a second day of power shutoffs meant to counter heightened fire risks from gusty, dry we...

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Turkeys staterun news agency said there has been an explosion in a town near the border with Syria Monday but there was no immediate information on possible casualties or damage.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party on Monday delayed for the second time a decision on who will become its new leader, putting off a convention planned for December in a coronavirusprompted move that irked one of the top contenders.

All crew members of an oil tanker that was stormed by British naval special forces after a group of stowaways threatened violence are safe and well, the ships operator confirmed Monday.

Police announced Sunday they have seized two homemade tanklike armored trucks and three other vehicles with less extensive weldedplate bulletproofing in the northern border town of Ciudad Camargo, across from Rio Grande City, Texas.