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The leaders of the three main opposition groups in Montenegro signed a coalition agreement Wednesday to form the next government and sought to alleviate fears that they would steer the small Balkan state off its proWestern course and back toward tradition...

Weapons provided by Western powers and Iran to the warring sides in Yemen are fuelling the sixyearold conflict, marked by deadly Saudiled coalition air strikes and Houthi shelling, U.N. investigators said on Wednesday.

Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere hit a record high this year, a United Nations report showed on Wednesday, as an economic slowdown amid the coronavirus pandemic had little longterm effect.

On August 13, in an agreement that Trump helped broker, Israel and the United Arab Emirates reached a historic deal that would lead to full normalization of diplomatic ties between the two Middle Eastern nations.

South Koreas ambassador to France said his country managed to enforce a quick response to the coronavirus based on its previous experiences of major epidemics, at a French parliament hearing on Wednesday.

Australia has revoked the visas of two visiting Chinese academics in an apparent escalation of tension between the countries which has seen each accuse the other of inappropriate treatment of journalists.

More than 100 British lawmakers have signed a letter to the Chinese ambassador condemning what they described as a systematic and calculated programme of ethnic cleansing against the Uighur people in Chinas far western Xinjiang region.

Hatched baby sea turtles on the island of Cyprus struggling to crawl to the sea now face the added threat of climate change as they dig their way out of nests in the sand, scientists say.

A roadside bomb in Kabul targeted first Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Wednesday morning but he escaped unharmed, his spokesman said. The attack killed at least 10 people.

Belarusian opposition politician Maxim Znak was detained on Wednesday by masked men wearing plain clothes, the Interfax news agency cited his allies as saying.

Scotland and Wales said the British government's internal market bill, which a minister admitted breaks international law over Brexit, will undermine the United Kingdom by stealing powers from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

In a video posted on Facebook soon after the explosion, Saleh, with bandages on his left hand, said he had been travelling to his office when his convoy was attacked.

NEW DELHI India has added another 89,706 coronavirus cases to the second-highest reported tally in the world, and the government is saying schools will reopen later this month for senior students after more than five months closed.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday proposed administering a Russian coronavirus vaccine to nearly 15,000 candidates in upcoming legislative elections so that they can campaign safely.

Brazil's acting Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said on Tuesday that a COVID19 vaccine would be rolled out for all Brazilians in January 2021.

Tough new lockdown restrictions on social gatherings across the whole of England are to be announced on Wednesday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries to control a spike in COVID19 infections.