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Dubai still requires foreign residents who are overseas to obtain permission before returning, the emirate said on Tuesday.

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck the Philippines on Tuesday, killing at least one person and damaging roads and buildings including a hospital and a sports complex being used as a novel coronavirus quarantine centre.

South Korea reported a threedigit increase in novel coronavirus cases for a fifth consecutive day, as authorities scrambled to trace hundreds of members of a church congregation, and the military locked down bases to counter the spread of the virus.

Scientists discovered the mutation as early as February and it has circulated in Europe and the Americas, the World Health Organization said.

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters, some burning car tyres, who gathered to mark the anniversary on Monday of a transitional powersharing deal with demands for quicker political reform.

A Florida man arrested after police discovered more than two dozen pipe bombs near his home was found dead in his jail cell with a torn sheet wrapped around his neck, authorities said Monday.

Rapper Kanye West has qualified to appear on Utahs ballot this November as an unaffiliated presidential candidate, an elections official said Monday.

Germany has begun an investigation after video emerged of police detaining a minor by kneeling on his neck, recalling the arrest of AfricanAmerican George Floyd whose death prompted mass protests over police racism and brutality in the United States.

Spain diagnosed 1,833 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Monday, below Friday's postlockdown record of 2,987 but more than three times the average seen in July.

With fewer than 80 days to go before the U.S. presidential election, it looks like Joe Biden's race to lose.

The Afghan government said Monday it would not release the last 400 Taliban prisoners it is holding until the insurgents free more captured soldiers, defying a traditional council held last week and further delaying intraAfghan talks sought by the United...

South Africa, which imposed one of the world's strictest anticoronavirus lockdowns five months ago, will significantly relax its restrictions Tuesday, including allowing the sales of liquor and cigarettes, as it appears the country has weathered its first...

Work began Monday to remove the two pieces of a grounded Japanese ship that leaked tons of oil into the protected coast of the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius and broke apart.

The Czech government will make the wearing of face masks compulsory again from September 1 on public transport and in many indoor public venues following a resurgence of coronavirus infections and ahead of what it expects to be a tough autumn.

Lithuania said it would not react to a Belarus military exercise being carried out near its border and will closely monitor Belarus's plans to move additional troops to the region.

Israeli security guards on Monday shot and wounded a Palestinian who is deaf and couldn't hear their commands to stop at a West Bank checkpoint, police said.