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Turkey and the United States have started talks to form a joint working group regarding U.S. sanctions imposed over Ankara's purchase of Russian S400 missile defence systems, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday.

U.S. Representativeelect Luke Letlow of Louisiana has died of COVID19, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said on Tuesday.

Strict stayathome orders were renewed indefinitely on Tuesday for much of California, a leading U.S. hot spot of the COVID19 pandemic, as the state's top health official said that many hospitals were teetering on the brink of crisis.

Scientists say the new variant can spread more rapidly. It was found in England in mid December and led to other countries imposing travel restrictions to the United Kingdom. Several other countries have reported variants.

Iran will resume normal gas flows to Iraq on Wednesday after reaching an agreement with Iraq on Tuesday over unpaid bills, a spokesman for Iraq's electricity ministry said.

The European Union on Tuesday criticised the jailing of a citizenjournalist in China who reported on the early outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic from Wuhan.

Germany is facing a growing threat of attacks by rightwing militants who deny the existence of the coronavirus pandemic and its health risks, a senior security official said on Monday.

Two women and three girls have been found dead in a home in northwest Arkansas in what authorities said are being investigated as suspected homicides.

Hungary stole a march on its fellow EU nations as it started vaccinating its people against COVID19 on Saturday, a day ahead of rollouts in countries including France and Germany as the pandemic surges across the continent.

An Air Canada Boeing Co 7378 Max en route between Arizona and Montreal with three crew members on board suffered an engine issue that forced the crew to divert the aircraft to Tucson, Arizona, the Canadian airline company said in an emailed statement on F...

Moscow (AP) A top associate of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained after doorstepping an alleged security operative who has inadvertently revealed details of Navalny's supposed poisoning with a Soviet-era nerve agent. Lyubov Sobol, a k...

Researchers, focusing on the English south east, east and London, said it was still uncertain whether the mutated strain was more or less deadly than its predecessor.

Nearly five years since the Brexit crisis began, the United Kingdom and the European Union have clinched a trade deal that defines their relationship after Dec. 31.

Visitors to an aquarium in Thailand got a big surprise this week when Santa Claus swam by, carrying a sack full of food and surrounded by shoals of curious fish.

A prominent advocate of democracy in Afghanistan who headed an election monitoring organisation was gunned down on Wednesday in a Kabul neighbourhood, drawing widespread condemnation locally and internationally.

Taiwan has kept the pandemic well under control thanks to early and effective prevention methods and widespread use of masks, with all new cases for more than the last 250 days among travellers arriving on the island.