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Veteran German diplomat Helga Schmid, a key behindthescenes negotiator of the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran, was named Friday as the new administrative head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Authorities in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki have dug dozens of graves for the victims of COVID19 after a sharp increase in the number of deaths.

A Maryland health department is taking new steps to protect its workers six months after a coronavirus outbreak killed a veteran employee who was twice denied permission to work from home.

Nasdaq Inc on Friday apologised for an Australian stock exchange outage last month, while the operator of New Zealand's exchange laid out steps it would take after the completion of two independent reviews into security and system issues.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday declined to say whether he still had confidence in U.S. Attorney General William Barr after the Department of Justice chief this week said there was no sign of major fraud in last month's presidential election.

The cellphone video shot in the dark by a woman in a parked car appeared to show something ominous: a man closing the doors of a white van and then rolling a wagon with a large box into a Detroit election center.

OPEC and Russia on Thursday agreed to slightly ease their deep oil output cuts from January by 500,000 barrels per day but failed to find a compromise on a broader and longer term policy for the rest of next year.

The top U.S. military officer said Thursday the United States should reconsider its decadesold practice of stationing troops and their families in allied countries at risk of war, like South Korea and in the Persian Gulf.

The three most recent former presidents hope an awareness campaign to promote confidence in its safety and effectiveness would be a powerful message as American public health officials try to convince the public to take the vaccine.

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More than 1,000 Chinese researchers have left the United States amid a U.S. crackdown on alleged technology theft, top U.S. security officials said on Wednesday, adding that Chinese agents had already been targeting the incoming Biden administration.

Hungary reported 182 new COVID19 deaths on Thursday, by far the highest daily toll since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, government data showed.

This election is about great voter fraud, fraud that has never been seen like this before, Trump said in a 46-minute address posted on social media.

More than a quarter of employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency said they were harassed or discriminated against based on their gender or race, according to a survey released Wednesday as part of the fallout from allegations of sexual harassme...

A 70yearold Swedish woman detained on suspicion of holding her adult son captive at home for up to three decades has been released from custody after the case against her had weakened, Stockholm prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Four Ethiopian aid workers were killed in Tigray near the border with Eritrea last month during a war in the northern region, a humanitarian and a diplomatic source said on Wednesday.