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A third person has been found dead in central Greece following extensive damage caused by a tropicallike storm over the weekend.

Britains top medical and scientific advisers will tell the public on Monday that COVID19 infection rates are going in the wrong direction amid expectations the government is preparing to announce new measures to control the pandemic.

The deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana this year which had baffled and alarmed conservationists were caused by toxins produced by cyanobacteria in water, officials said on Monday.

Film agencies in Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced an agreement Monday to collaborate on television production, the latest development to follow a U.S.brokered deal between the countries to normalize relations.

Anthony and Rosemary Terio, married for 65 years, died five days apart in separate New York hospitals last spring, two lives among the nearly 200,000 that the United States has now lost to the coronavirus pandemic.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday endorsed Donald Trump in his reelection bid for the U.S. presidency, saying his rival Democrats have forced a "moral imperialism" on the world that illiberal leaders like himself reject.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death drew mourners to the steps of the Supreme Court, where they sang Amazing Grace in the dark. Fresh off a rally stage in Minnesota, President Donald Trump learned of the loss and praised Ginsburg as an amazing woman.

Republican U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander indicated in a statement on Sunday he is comfortable moving forward on a Supreme Court nomination in an election year to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died on Friday, CNN reported.

A humpback whale has found its way back to sea weeks after it got lost in a murky, crocodileinfested river in northern Australia.

Sudanese officials will discuss the removal of their country from a U.S. list of state sponsors of terror with U.S. officials during a visit to the United Arab Emirates this week, the ruling council said on Sunday.

Pakistan's military on Sunday said two soldiers were killed in a shootout with militants during a search operation in the countrys northwest, a former militant stronghold.

Military jets flew over central London and a memorial service was held at Westminster Abbey on Sunday to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, a major air campaign against Nazi Germany during World War II.

Public sector workers in Germany will start staging shortterm warning strikes after the latest round of wage negotiations failed to produce an agreement, their union said Sunday.

Two days of Chinese military aircraft approaching Taiwan demonstrate that Beijing is a threat to the entire region and have shown Taiwanese even more clearly the true nature of China's government, President Tsai Ingwen said on Sunday.

Iran dismissed U.S. efforts to restore all U.N. sanctions on the country as mounting economic pressure from Washington pushed the local currency down to its lowest level ever on Sunday.

A train pulls into the Odenplan subway station in central Stockholm, where morning commuters without masks get off or board before settling in to read their smartphones.