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A top European Union official dealing with the United Kingdom said Tuesday that a cliffedge rupture between the two without even a basic trade deal by the end of the year is becoming more likely by the day.

After a revered ultraOrthodox rabbi died this week, Israeli police thought they had worked out an arrangement with his followers to allow a small, dignified funeral that would conform with public health guidelines under the current coronavirus lockdown.

People protesting the results of a parliamentary election in Kyrgyzstan broke into government and security headquarters early on Tuesday and freed a former president from custody, local news websites said.

Mexican authorities said on Monday they found the bodies of 12 men and women left in two abandoned vans in a rural area in the central state of San Luis Potosi, an area brimming with drug cartel activity.

Lawyers for a woman who claims President Donald Trump raped her in a department store dressing room a quarter century ago said Monday that he cant hurl insults at her and then cite his job as reason to remove himself as a defendant in a defamation lawsuit...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday reported 7,396,730 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 36,778 from its previous count, and said that the number of deaths had risen by 378 to 209,199.

The White House has blocked new Food and Drug Administration guidelines on bringing potential vaccines for COVID19 to market that would almost certainly have prevented their approval before the Nov. 3 election.

A white University of New Hampshire chemistry professor is accused of posing as an immigrant woman of color on Twitter to make racist and sexist comments and attack users who supported racial justice and other progressive causes.

The Guatemalan governments halt of more than 3,000 Honduran migrants who had set out for the United States amid the pandemic signaled that U.S. pressure on immigration continues to extend southward.

Serbias president on Monday proposed that current Prime Minister Ana Brnabic stay in office, paving the way for the formation of a new government more than three months after a parliamentary election.

A Tennessee death row inmate who has always claimed innocence asked the governor on Monday to commute his sentence to life in prison.

A lawsuit accuses Omaha police of using excessive force when they responded to protests against police brutality and racial injustice in Nebraska's largest city earlier this year.

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said Monday he will selfquarantine after a Cabinet minister he was in contact with tested positive for the coronavirus, as cases in the country hit a record high.

Three people have died after a stolen vehicle in which they were riding crashed while being chased by police in Minneapolis early Monday, authorities said.

The British government faced huge questions Monday over its coronavirus testing system after a big increase in the number of positive cases over the weekend that was blamed on a technical glitch.