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Australia does not know why Chinese authorities have detained Australian citizen and television anchor Cheng Lei, Trade Minister Simon Birmingham said on Tuesday, adding to the mystery why the journalist has been taken into custody.

Trump criticized Biden's speech for not specifically identifying left-wingers or Antifa as responsible for the violence Biden was denouncing. But Trump himself refused to condemn violence by his conservative supporters.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said on Monday he would not ban hydraulic fracturing, a controversial method of drilling for crude oil and natural gas, if elected and called Republican assertions that he supports such a ban a lie.

German police on Saturday halted a Berlin march by tens of thousands of people opposed to coronavirus restrictions in the biggest of several European protests against facemask rules and other anti-virus curbs.

Australia's trade minister Simon Birmingham said Canberra didn't know why Chinese authorities had detained Australian citizen Cheng Lei, as he warned that the risks for Australian businesses engaged with China had changed.

A former friend and adviser of Melania Trump says it was the worst mistake of my life to work for President Donald Trump and his family, lashing out at the first lady for not defending her over questions about costs for the presidential inauguration she h...

A 75yearold protester who had been hospitalized with a severe head injury after being shoved by police and falling backward plans to press on with his grassroots activism.

Rapper Kanye West will remain on the Iowa ballot as a candidate for president after a state panel on Monday rejected two challenges to his candidacy.

Brian Kolfage, the U.S. Air Force veteran charged alongside former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon with defrauding donors in a scheme to build the president's signature wall along the U.S.Mexico border, pleaded not guilty on Monday.

Former President Pranab Mukherjee, a senior leader of India's opposition Congress party, has died. He was 84.

Joe Biden is mounting a more aggressive offense against President Donald Trump with a rare public appearance in Pittsburgh on Monday, where hes expected to say Trump is contributing to the violence in the streets nationwide.

Lebanon's prime ministerdesignate Mustapha Adib called on Monday for the formation of a new government in record time and urged immediate reforms as a step towards securing an agreement with the International Monetary Fund.

Mitsubishi Motors' former Chief Executive Osamu Masuko, who engineered the automakers alliance with Nissan, has died. He was 71.

Lebanese leading Sunni politician Saad alHariri nominated the country's ambassador to Germany Mustapha Adib to be the next prime minister in formal consultations on Monday, major Lebanese broadcasters reported.

The successor to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is resigning because of poor health, faces a daunting list of economic, diplomatic and security issues.

George Floyd. Sacagawea. The guy who invented air conditioning.