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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he would visit the Israelioccupied Golan Heights on Thursday, marking the Trump administration's break with previous U.S. policy on the strategic plateau.

The coronavirus crisis has helped fuel a surge in online shopping in Russia that has put even the remote icy expanse of Chukotka on the ecommerce map.

President-elect Joe Biden's winning tally is approaching a record 80 million votes as Democratic bastions continue to count ballots and the 2020 election cracks turnout records.

The United States on Wednesday imposed broad sanctions targeting Iran, blacklisting a foundation controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and taking aim at what Washington called Iran's human rights abuses a year after a deadly crackdown on ant...

Ethiopia said on Wednesday peacekeepers from its Tigray region serving in Somalia had been disarmed over a security issue, raising concerns over the forces' ability to fight al Qaedalinked militants.

Bahrain sent its first official government delegation to Israel on Wednesday as the two countries look to broaden cooperation that Washington has promoted as an antiIran alliance and potential economic bonanza.

All the nine members of the Secretariat were present during the crucial meeting, which Prime Minister Oli has been avoiding time and again on one pretext or the other.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said nothing had been finalized and that no orders for Somalia have been received by the U.S. military.

The German presidency of the European Union expressed confidence on Tuesday it would find a solution to the blockage by Poland and Hungary of the EU's 1.8 trillion euros financial package needed to revive an economy depressed by the COVID pandemic.

The committee that awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Tuesday it was deeply concerned about the conflict in Tigray region and called on all parties to end violence.

Australian authorities conducted mass tests on Tuesday and about 4,000 people were confined to quarantine in the hope of stifling a new cluster of cases of the novel coronavirus after hopes it had been largely eradicated.

Oil prices edged higher on Tuesday on expectations OPEC and its allies will extend oil production cuts for at least three months, while sentiment was bolstered by news of another promising coronavirus vaccine.

Australia's fifth most populous state on Tuesday reported one new COVID19 case overnight, dampening fears of another deadly cluster emerging in a country that has largely eradicated the virus.

A conservative group on Monday moved to dismiss voter fraud lawsuits it had filed in four states days after the groups leader made baseless allegations questioning the integrity of the election.

An Afghan man pleaded not guilty on Monday in Manhattan federal court to six counts related to the 2008 kidnapping of a U.S. journalist and two Afghan nationals in Afghanistan.

An explosion at a gas station in Iran's capital Tehran on Monday injured at least one person, Iranian state media reported.