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Three Paris police officers being held over the beating of a Black music producer during an arrest a week ago will remain in custody for now, Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said on Sunday.

The head of the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Sunday he hoped humanitarian access to Ethiopia's northern Tigray region would be granted soon by the Ethiopian authorities.

Hong Kong reported 115 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, including 109 locally transmitted, the highest in nearly four months, as authorities battle a renewed wave of COVID19.

South Korean authorities announced a ban on yearend parties and some music lessons on Sunday and said public saunas and some cafes must also close after coronavirus infections surged at their fastest pace since the early days of the pandemic.

A federal appeals court on Friday rejected an attempt by U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign to block Presidentelect Joe Biden from being declared the winner of Pennsylvania, dealing another significant setback to Trump's bid to overturn the Nov. 3 ele...

An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday, likely to provoke confrontation between Iran and its foes in the last weeks of Donald Trump's presidency.

Antiinflammatory colchicine will be tested as a possible COVID19 treatment in one of the world's biggest trials, the study website posted on Friday, the latest effort to repurpose existing medicines to fight the pandemic.

Oil slipped from sevenmonth highs on Thursday as signs of growing supplies helped to halt a rally driven by optimism that COVID19 vaccines will revive fuel demand.

Greece will extend its nationwide lockdown by a week until Dec. 7 as COVID19 cases continue to surge across the country, a government spokesman said on Thursday.

China said on Thursday it has lodged stern representations with the United States after Washington announced fresh Iranrelated sanctions on four entities.

Australia on Thursday welcomed the release of BritishAustralian academic Kylie MooreGilbert, who was detained in Iran in September 2018 and had been serving a 10year sentence for espionage.

Swiss police have identified a Swiss woman who knifed a victim in the neck and grabbed another by the throat in a Lugano department store on Tuesday as a known jihadist.

Foreign donors pledged a projected $12 billion in civilian aid to Afghanistan over the next four years at a conference on Tuesday, but many made it conditional on protecting human rights and making progress on peace talks in a major shakeup for the countr...

Democrat Joe Biden has been certified as the winner of the presidential election in Pennsylvania, the governor said Tuesday.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has warned Italians not to ski during the Christmas holidays to help curb a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 50,000 people in Italy.

Swedish prosecutors said on Tuesday they had received a request to reopen an investigation into the 1994 sinking of the ferry Estonia that killed 852 people, based on new information that appeared in a documentary.