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Ireland on Tuesday announced new rules that will likely cut popular holiday destinations Greece and Italy from a quarantinefree "green list" and leave some of Europe's strictest travel restrictions in place for another month.

Two dozen migrants and refugees on board a rubber dinghy trying to cross from Libya to Europe are believed to have drowned after their boat capsized, the UN's International Organization of Migration said on Tuesday.

A group of 50 Democratic and Republican members of Congress is due to unveil $1.5 trillion bipartisan coronavirus relief legislation on Tuesday, in an election year effort to break a monthlong impasse in COVID19 talks between the White House and top Demo...

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday moved closer to an unprecedented national vote on what he describes as the corrupt rule of his predecessors, alleging they allowed massive theft of public resources over decades.

In order to promote the tenets of democracy across the world, the International Day of Democracy is observed on September 15.

At least three people drowned when a boat carrying migrants sank off the island of Crete late on Monday while 56 aboard were rescued, the coast guard said.

Ten Tanzanian schoolchildren were killed when a dormitory at a privatelyowned primary school in the north of the country caught fire, a senior government official said on Monday.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has added top lawyers to his staff and launched a "special litigation" team as his campaign braces for potential legal fights over the outcome of the Nov. 3 U.S. election against President Donald Trump.

U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad will step down to work on President Donald Trump's reelection campaign, a U.S. official familiar with the matter said on Monday, departing Beijing at a time when the ties between the world's top two economies are at...

Russians vote on Sunday in dozens of local elections that will be scrutinised for signs of discontent with the ruling United Russia party following the suspected poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

AstraZeneca announced on Wednesday it had "voluntarily paused" its trial of the vaccine developed alongside Oxford University after the volunteer developed an unexplained illness.

The framework for defence and security relationship was signed in Philadelphia on September 10 between Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia Reed Werner and Maldivian Minister of Defence Mariya Didi.

Accidents in DR Congo's makeshift mines are a common occurrence, and are often deadly. Many such mines are in remote areas, meaning the accidents are under-reported.

A senior aide to the Connecticut federal prosecutor in charge of investigating the origins of the FBI's probe into contacts between Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia has resigned from the Justice Department, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office s...

Germany and France on Thursday agreed on an initiative for EU states to share out some 400 minors from the camp.

Three years ago, Myanmar’s military burned the Rohingya village of Kan Kya to the ground and bulldozed over its remains. Last year, the government erased its name from official maps, according to the United Nations.