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Ireland is considering restarting its mandatory hotel quarantine regime after it told residents to avoid nonessential travel to seven southern African countries due to concerns over a new COVID19 variant, its health minister said on Friday.

Delilah Edwards' parents didn't plan an elaborate Thanksgiving celebration.

A newly identified coronavirus variant that has spread in South Africa is the most concerning that British health officials have seen as it has double the number of mutations of the Delta variant including some associated with evading immune response.

A week and a half after damaging floods in Washington state, forecasters warned that multiple atmospheric rivers threaten to once again drench the Pacific Northwest beginning Thanksgiving Day.

Italy acted as much of Europe is increasing restrictions to try to grapple with a new wave of the pandemic.

Romanian prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into an organised crime group that stole roughly $2 million worth of diesel and other fuel from a U.S. military base in the eastern county of Constanta, police said in a statement on Wednesday.

A lawyer for the father of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25yearold Black man fatally shot after he was pursued by three white men in Georgia, slammed comments made during closing arguments by a defense attorney who spoke of the dead man's dirty toenails."

A former Army officer and Detroit native who reported in 2005 that military prisoners in the Middle East were being beaten and abused by U.S. soldiers has died.

The dollar gained broadly on Wednesday, reaching 16month highs against the euro and an almost fiveyear top against the Japanese yen as investors bet that the U.S. Federal Reserve will tighten monetary policy faster than its peers.

A Sudanese government official said Wednesday he was kept in isolation for nearly a month after being arrested during a military coup that plunged the country into crisis.

A visiting U.S. delegation made clear to both leading presidential candidates in Honduras' Nov. 28 election that Washington wants the country to maintain its longstanding diplomatic relations with Taiwan, a senior State Department official said on Wednesd...

WHO's Europe director Dr. Hans Kluge warned that without urgent measures taken soon, the continent could see another 700,000 deaths by the spring.

A first session between the two sides was held October 9-10 in the Qatari capital Doha, where US diplomats overseeing relations with Afghanistan transferred after the Taliban takeover.

Belarus' oldest newspaper was banned on the 115th anniversary of its founding Tuesday, the latest move in the government's relentless crackdown on independent media in the exSoviet nation.

The Seminole Tribe of Florida on Tuesday moved to appeal a federal judge's decision to block its deal with the state to expand gambling and online sports betting throughout Florida.

An American man filed a lawsuit alleging the U.S. government Monday held him for more than a month in immigration detention even though he was a U.S. citizen.