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The world's fifth worst-hit country with more than seven million infections, Russia has seen cases climb over the past month as vaccinations stalled.

Russia is holding up the appointment of independent experts to monitor implementation of sanctions on four African countries, saying the panels proposed by the U.N. secretarygeneral are not geographically balanced and some members are not impartial, U.N....

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says hell restore stalled communication lines with South Korea in early October.

New York Gov. Kathleen Hochul has encouraged religiousminded people to get a COVID19 vaccine by saying it is God's will that they get inoculated.

The case is believed to be the US' first involving female genital mutilation and emerged in April 2017 when Nagarwala was arrested and accused of heading a conspiracy

In a surprising development, a Russian man who was imprisoned in the U.S. for cybercrimes has been deported to Russia, officials said Tuesday.

NBC opened the new television season with a dominant week against its rivals, and it wasn't just football that was responsible.

British businessman Mike Lynch has won a reprieve on U.S. fraud charges after Britain's Home Secretary Priti Patel postponed a decision on his extradition by two months, The Telegraph reported on Tuesday.

Mexicos Yaqui people have been hit by a wave of killings and coronavirus deaths, so the country's longawaited public apology for centuries of abuses Tuesday rang a little hollow.

When the Taliban won back control of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar last month, they set out to settle a score with an old foe.

South Korea says North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile into the sea.

A new monument in Montgomery pays tribute to three enslaved Black women who were subjected to experimental surgery by a 19th century physician celebrated for advancing women's health.

South Africa pledged more ambitious emissions targets Monday, a move that was welcomed by climate activists.

DNA tests on six sets of skeletal remains found in northern Mexico have confirmed that five of them belong to some of 10 missing men from Mexicos most persecuted Indigenous group.

The report quoted ex-officials who said that the US has been covertly monitoring the movement of various WikiLeaks personnel.

Mexican soldiers found a 43acre (17.4hectare) marijuana farm in the northern border state of Chihuahua, the army said Sunday.