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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro met on Thursday with allied truckers leading progovernment protests on highways across the country, as police cleared blockades that threatened key grain and beef export routes.

The presidents of Russia and Belarus said Thursday they have made significant progress on integrating their countries economies, including forming common energy and financial markets.

A wildfire has forced the evacuation of more than 900 people from around the southern Spanish resort of Estepona, local authorities said on Thursday.

Taliban authorities have agreed to let 200 American civilians and third country nationals who remained in Afghanistan after the end of the U.S. evacuation operation to depart on charter flights from Kabul airport, a U.S. official said.

A UN report in June this year said that “the Haqqani Network remains the Taliban’s most combat-ready forces" and “is reported to have a highly skilled core of members who specialize in complex attacks.

At least 10 people were killed when a fire broke out in a makeshift hospital for COVID19 patients in the North Macedonian town of Tetovo, the country's health minister said on Wednesday.

An employee cost a New York county at least $6,000 in electricity bills by allegedly secretly installing dozens of machines at his workplace in a cryptocurrency scheme, authorities said Wednesday, announcing charges against him.

The penitentiary department's website showed the jail had just over 2,000 inmates, more than three times as many prisoners than it was designed to hold.

The Earth observation satellite, Gaofen-5 02, was launched aboard a Long March-4C rocket on Tuesday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in north China's Shanxi Province.

Former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley started an online petition urging the US government not to recognize the Taliban government of Afghanistan.

The United States wishes to consult some of its partners on the path forward on Iran during talks this week in Paris and Moscow given it does not know when indirect talks with Iran may resume and continued advances in Tehran's nuclear program, a U.S. offi...

Meatpacking workers and farm workers who were severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic will be eligible to get grants of up to $600 per person as part of a new $700 million aid program the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will address lawmakers on Tuesday on his plans to fix Britain's "broken" social care system, at a time many in his own party are furious that he wants to pay for it by raising taxes, violating an election pledge.

A towering statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, is set to come down on Wednesday, more than 130 years after it was built as a tribute to a Civil War hero who is now widely seen as a symbol of racial injustice, state officials...

Romelu Lukaku celebrated his 100th international with a goal as Belgium opened up a sixpoint lead after a 30 win against the Czech Republic in World Cup qualifying on Sunday.

Sudanese authorities have seized a cargo of 72 boxes of weapons that arrived by air from Ethiopia and that they suspect were destined for use in "crimes against the state", Sudan's state news agency, SUNA, reported on Sunday.