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The Supreme Court is leaving in place a decision awarding the late John Steinbecks stepdaughter $5 million in a family dispute over abandoned plans for movies of some of Steinbeck's bestknown works.

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Monday there is still potential to reach agreement with U.S. lawmakers on more economic relief during the coronavirus pandemic, and that President Donald Trump is committed to getting the deal done.

Tropical Storm Gamma stalled just north of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Monday after lashing the resortstudded coast with nearhurricane force winds and drenching the states of Tabasco and Chiapas with a deluge that killed at least 6 people and forced tho...

NATO SecretaryGeneral Jens Stoltenberg called on Monday for a ceasefire in NagornoKarabakh as the death toll rose during fighting in the breakaway enclave in the South Caucasus.

Scientific groups representing over 170,000 health workers are urging Spanish politicians to base their response to the coronavirus pandemic on science rather than politics.

The U.S. Supreme Court returns to work on Monday for the first time since liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, opening its new term as Senate Republicans seek to quickly confirm President Donald Trump's conservative nominee to replace her.

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Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani is travelling to Qatar for a bilateral meeting with Qatari leaders but will not hold a meeting with Taliban officials even as peace talks are underway in the country's capital city Doha, officials said on Monday.

German police on Sunday arrested a man who attacked and seriously injured a Jewish citizen near a synagogue in the northern town of Hamburg as the Jewish community celebrated Sukkoth.

At least a quarter of the 28,000 layoffs planned for Disney's parks division will come from Florida, according to a letter the company filed with state and local officials last week.

Tens of thousands of people marched through the centre of the Belarusian capital Minsk on Sunday to demand that authorities free political prisoners, prompting police to turn water cannon on them.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday despite weeks of rising infections, but warned that the country faced a bumpy winter ahead.

Azerbaijan said on Sunday that Armenian armed forces had shelled its second city of Ganja in a major new escalation of the conflict in the South Caucasus.

Hermes headlined Saturdays installment of Paris Fashion Week with a cinematic, surrealist runway staging, but the lack of celebrities attending and the patchy drizzle put a slight dampener on the usually highoctane events.

The Supreme Court opens a new term Monday with Republicans on the cusp of realizing a dream 50 years in the making, a solid conservative majority that might roll back abortion rights, expand gun rights and shrink the power of government.

Pope Francis travelled to the tomb of his natureloving namesake and signed an encyclical Saturday laying out his vision of a postCOVID world built on solidarity, fraternity and care for the environment.