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Wales will impose a two-week "firebreak" lockdown from Friday in which everybody apart from essential workers must stay at home to combat an accelerating second wave of the COVID-19 outbreak.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide the legality of one of U.S. President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies that has forced tens of thousands of migrants along the southern border to wait in Mexico,...

China's shaky economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is gaining strength as consumers return to shopping malls and auto dealerships while the United States and Europe endure painful contractions.

Hundreds of chanting Thai protesters demonstrated in Bangkok on Saturday in defiance of a crackdown on three months of action aimed at the government and the powerful monarchy, witnesses said.

A presidential election on Sunday gives Bolivians at least a chance for a reset after a year of political turmoil as they struggle with the dramatic costs of the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won a second mandate on Saturday in an election landslide of historic proportions.

A suspect shot dead by police after the beheading of a history teacher near Paris was an 18-year-old Chechen refugee unknown to intelligence services who posted a grisly claim of responsibility on social media minutes after the...

Despite a second attempt at a ceasefire, Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations Sunday of violating the new truce in their destructive conflict over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

A landslide in central Vietnam on Sunday buried at least 22 army personnel, just a week after another landslide killed 13 as heavy rains continued to pound the region, state media reported.

A suicide car bombing on Sunday killed at least 13 people and wounded around 120 others in Afghanistan's western Ghor province, officials said.