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The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) said it had deployed aircraft to spray chemical dispersants on the slick and mitigate the environmental impact.

While Indonesia has recorded more deaths from the coronavirus than any other Southeast Asian country, it also has seen by far the most fatalities among medical workers in the region, leading to concerns about the longterm impact on the nation's fragile he...

The strategically located, selfdeclared African nation of Somaliland touted potential oil, gas and tourism resources for investment as it opened a de facto embassy in Taiwan on Wednesday, a relationship that has angered China and Somalia.

In 2016, Donald Trump tore down Democrats blue wall, winning the White House with surprise victories in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Fresh fires that erupted on a large oil tanker drifting off Sri Lanka are under control again, the navy said Wednesday.

Zimbabwe will resume domestic flights from Thursday and international flights next month in a boost to tourism, but travellers will be required to have COVID19 clearance certificates, the government said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a Level 3 Travel Health Notice for Pakistan due to COVID-19, it said. The Pakistan government has lifted stay-at-home orders and allowed the resumption of intercity domestic travel and mass t...

The remains of dozens of the extinct giants and other prehistoric creatures have been found in Zumpango on the northern edge of the capital, which sits on an ancient lake bed.

The death toll rose after 10 more succumbed to injuries at the District Mohmand Hospital. Majority of the deceased include labourers and few others who had gathered at the foothill in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Safi town near the Afghanistan border, about 85 km...

The U.S. Senate later this week aims to vote on a drastically scaledback Republican coronavirus aid bill, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday, despite opposition from Democrats who are needed for any measure to be enacted into law.

Georgia's top elections official said Tuesday that his office has identified about 1,000 cases of potential double voting in the June primary election a felony he's determined to see prosecuted.

A state supreme court decision Tuesday clears the way for election officials to print ranked choice voting ballots in Maines presidential election, but its still unclear whether the voting system will be used in that contest.

Seven people were found fatally shot at an illegal marijuana growing operation in rural Southern California, authorities said.

The Republicanled U.S. Senate will introduce a new proposal on coronavirus relief legislation on Tuesday and could schedule a vote as soon as this week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

The U.N. agency for refugees says it has confirmed two coronavirus cases in the Azraq camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan.

When polls closed in Arizona's U.S. Senate race in November 2018, initial results from inperson voting showed Republican Martha McSally in the lead. Her advantage evaporated in the days that followed with the tallying of postal ballots.