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An artist in Los Angeles is memorializing each of the thousands of people who have died from COVID-19 in the United States with a delicate origami crane.

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that any attack on a Turkish ship exploring for oil and gas in disputed Mediterranean waters would incur a "high price" and suggested Turkey had already acted on that warning.

A deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates intended to fully normalise relations follows a history of peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence.

The United Nations cultural agency said Thursday it will lead the international campaign for the recovery and restoration of Beirut's heritage, citing local officials who said that around 60 historic buildings in the Lebanese capital were at risk of colla...

Opposition and civil society groups demonstrated Thursday in Ivory Coasts city of Abidjan against President Alassane Ouattaras decision to run for a third term in October elections.

An agreement on normalising relations reached between Israel and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday is an "enormous" step forward on the "right path", U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters with him on a trip to central European countries.

The Portuguese capital and its surrounds will remain under tougher anticoronavirus restrictions than the rest of the country until at least the end of August, the government said on Thursday.

Funding for the U.S. Postal Service and to shore up election infrastructure is the main sticking point in talks between the White House and top congressional Democrats over a fresh round of coronavirus relief, President Donald Trump said on Thursday.

The European Union will likely impose new sanctions on Belarus as soon as later this month, diplomats and officials said, after strongman President Alexander Lukashenko cracked down on protests triggered by a disputed vote.

London and its environs are home to a notable diversity of faiths and flocks. Rites that have been the bedrock of their beliefs for centuries had to evolve swiftly during the pandemic lockdown to be safe and relevant for the faithful amid global uncertain...

The Ministry of National Health Services reported on its COVID-19 dedicated website that 10 COVID-19 patients died in the last 24 hours, pushing the number of total deaths to 6,139.

She had all the makings of a rising star, someone who wrote, directed and acted in her own plays in her 20s and attended one of the country's top drama schools around the same time as Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver.

Mexico has sold only about onethird of the lottery tickets in a symbolic raffle for the presidential jet, with just a little over a month to go before the Sept. 15 drawing.

The U.S. State Department may announce as soon as Thursday a requirement for Chinese governmentfunded cultural centers at U.S. universities to register as foreign missions, Bloomberg News reported, a development that would be signal further deterioration...

The Albuquerque Journal and the Santa Fe New Mexican newspapers are partnering to print both publications at the The New Mexicans production facility in Santa Fe in a costcutting move.

Georgia is appealing a federal judge's ruling that permanently blocked the restrictive abortion measure lawmakers passed last year.