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The World Health Organization has not changed its policy on aerosol transmission of the coronavirus, it said on Monday after U.S. health officials published draft new guidance by mistake warning that it can spread through airborne particles.

Italy's rightist bloc has won at least three of seven regions at stake in local elections, but League leader Matteo Salvini looked unlikely to end half a century of centreleft rule in Tuscany, exit polls said on Monday.

Italians turned out in droves to vote in regional elections and on a referendum on cutting the number of lawmakers by a third, despite the coronavirus pandemic and strict hygiene protocols at all polls.

President Donald Trump says he expects to announce his pick for the Supreme Court on Friday or Saturday, after funeral services for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Poland's ruling rightwing coalition should remain united, the leader of a junior partner in the alliance said on Monday, attempting to smooth tensions that threaten to wreck the government and trigger a snap election.

Four people from Louisiana were killed when their singleengine airplane crashed in a Texas pasture while attempting an emergency landing, authorities said.

EU countries remained divided Monday on whether to approve a preliminary free trade deal drafted last year with South American countries because of concerns related to the Amazon deforestation and the respect of European standards.

The bird flu outbreak registered in northern Kazakhstan has been caused by the same H5N8 virus strain as that recorded in Russia which presents no immediate danger to humans, Kazakh officials said on Monday.

Police in the Spanish capital and its surrounding towns are stopping people coming in and out of some workingclass neighborhoods that have been partially locked down to stem Europes fastest coronavirus spread.

Tropical storm conditions were expected to begin Monday morning in parts of Texas and Louisiana as Tropical Storm Beta slowly worked its way into a part of the country that's already been drenched and battered during this year's exceptionally busy hurrica...

A humpback whale has found its way back to sea weeks after it got lost in a murky, crocodileinfested river in northern Australia.

She was seeing family. She was exercising. She was listening to opera. She was doing the work of the court. She even officiated at a wedding.

With the nation racing to come to grips with centuries of racial sins, officials plan to remove the Capitol lawn statue of Stephen A. Douglas, whose forceful 19th century politics helped forge modernday Illinois but who also profited from slavery.

Protesters in some poorer areas of Madrid that are facing lockdown to stem a soaring COVID19 infection rate took to the streets on Sunday, to call for better health provisions and complained of discrimination by the authorities.

Turkey and Greece could soon resume talks over their contested Mediterranean claims but European Union leaders meeting this week will not help if they threaten sanctions, Turkey's presidential spokesman said on Sunday.

Thousands of protesters who have flooded Belarusian cities for six weeks of demonstrations to demand an end to the 26year rule of the countrys authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko include people of all ages, professions and social groups.