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Hong Kongs professional journalism association on Thursday protested new rules restricting who can provide press coverage during demonstrations, saying the government has no right to determine who is or isn't a reporter.

A business jet that was reported stolen in Mexico crashed in a Guatemalan jungle on Wednesday near a hidden airstrip after making a mysterious trip to Venezuela, leaving two men dead near an onboard stash of drugs and weapons.

Japan and South Korea must cooperate to counter any threat from North Korea, Japan's new prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, told South Korea's president on Thursday, calling for the uneasy neighbours to repair their frayed ties.

A judge on Thursday convicted a man of murdering two women who disappeared while going home from a night out with friends in the Australian west coast city of Perth.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday said Black turnout was the linchpin to his hopes of winning the White House in November and reversing economic and social inequities that have held back AfricanAmericans.

Nicaraguas governing party is pushing a bill that would require people, businesses and nongovernmental groups that receive money from outside the country to register as foreign agents, saying it is an attempt to prevent foreign interference.

A power outage left parts of Venezuelas capital and several states in the dark Wednesday, residents and independent observers said.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Wednesday that China was aggressively attempting to influence state and local governments, including through seemingly innocuous sistercity agreements, delivering the message in the presidential battleground stat...

German prosecutors said Wednesday they have filed charges against eight more Volkswagen employees accused of involvement in the company's diesel scandal, which saw it sell cars fitted with software that let them cheat on emissions tests.

The British government on Wednesday defended its strategy for combatting a second wave of COVID19 cases amid criticism that its new slate of restrictions will not be enough to stop an exponential spread of the coronavirus.

LONDON The British government is defending its strategy for combatting a second wave of coronavirus infections from criticism that new restrictions didnt go far enough to stop the exponential spread of the virus.

The Italian fashion industry is moving to inject optimism into luxury's dismal year, staging 23 live runway shows and 37 presentations during a hybrid livedigital Milan Fashion Week that aims to excite consumers and connect with the buying network.

Beta weakened to a tropical depression on Tuesday as it crawled inland along the Texas coast south of Houston, unleashing heavy rains, flooding streets, and forcing emergency workers to rescue dozens of people.

A South Korean official who disappeared off a government ship near the disputed sea boundary with North Korea this week may be in North Korea, South Korea's Defense Ministry said Wednesday.

Communist Party leader Xi Jinpings smiling visage looks down from the walls of virtually every home inhabited by members of the Yi minority group in a remote corner of Chinas Sichuan province.

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday said Muslims will be allowed to perform the smaller, yearround pilgrimage starting Oct. 4 as the kingdom gradually begins lifting restrictions that had been in place on Islam's holiest site for the past seven months due to the coro...