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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned Thursday that authorities will have to impose tougher measures to combat the spread of COVID19 and protect the Christmas holidays as the government prepared to introduce stricter measures in northeast England.

A fierce fall storm has battered Finland, leaving over 80,000 households without electricity, disrupting ferry traffic on the northern part of the Baltic Sea and prompting authorities to issue a warning for citizens to stay inside.

Germany's defense minister is apologizing for decades of discrimination against gay servicepeople in the military until a change of policy in 2000.

Colleagues of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Thursday that a bottle of water with a trace of the Novichok nerve agent was found in his hotel room after his poisoning.

NASA is considering approving by next April up to two planetary science missions from four proposals under review, including one to Venus that scientists involved in the project said could help determine whether or not that planet harbors life.

The President said Redfield's comments to Congress about masks possibly being more effective than a vaccine were incorrect and that Redfield may have misunderstood the question.

Gen. Eduardo Pazuello on Wednesday became Brazils third health minister during the coronavirus pandemic, after nearly four months holding the position on an interim basis and almost 120,000 COVID19 deaths during that time.

A settlement between the family of Breonna Taylor and the city of Louisville could bring wideranging reforms to how police officers live and work, changes that would represent a rare outcome in a police misconduct lawsuit.

A panel of appeals court judges on Wednesday repeatedly challenged the legal claims of a group that accuses Harvard University of intentional discrimination against Asian American students who apply to the Ivy League school.

Decisions on whether to prosecute members of the U.S. military for sexual assault or sexual harassment would be handled outside the chain of command under a measure members of Congress proposed Wednesday that is named for a Texas soldier who was slain by...

A multimilliondollar grant will enable the NewYork Historical Society to upgrade its storage for documents ranging from John Jay's draft of a Federalist Paper to the archives of author Robert Caro.

Ugandan forces are searching for more than 200 naked inmates who escaped jail, broke into an armory, then stripped and fled into a remote wilderness area in the country's northeast.

Ukraine accused Belarus on Wednesday of trying to escalate a row over 2,000 Hasidic Jewish pilgrims stranded at a border crossing after Ukrainian border guards did not allow them to enter due to coronavirus restrictions.

Britain said on Wednesday that Russia had a case to answer over the poisoning of Alexei Navalny as it was almost certain that Russian intelligence services carried out the attack with a Sovietdeveloped chemical weapon known as Novichok.

South Korean President Moon Jaein has told Japan’s new prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, that he was willing to sit down anytime in a bid to improve ties strained by historical and economic disputes, Moon's office said on Wednesday.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday that the United Kingdom cannot unilaterally change the EUUK bilateral withdrawal agreement without destroying global trust in the country.