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U.S. Senator Kamala Harris will unleash her prosecutorial skills against President Donald Trump on Wednesday when she addresses the Democratic National Convention as presidential nominee Joe Biden's running mate.

Thousands of people were under orders to evacuate in regions surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area Wednesday as some 30 wildfires blazed across the state amid a blistering heat wave now in its second week. Smoke blanketed the city of San Francisco.

South Africa's luxury game lodges are empty and safari vehicles gather dust, with borders closed and airlines struggling due to the coronavirus crisis.

Belarusian opposition politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya appealed to European Union leaders on Wednesday not to recognise what she said were fraudulent presidential elections, urging the bloc to respect the choice of the Belarusian people.

Two sticky bombs targeted Afghan government employees in Kabul early on Wednesday, killing two people, including a police officer, and wounding two others, police said.

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Tracing and testing might be inadequate unless combined with other measures, experts say.

The US Transportation Department announced the increase Tuesday, saying that China's aviation authority decided this week to permit expanded flights by Unite.

China and the United States will each allow air carriers to double current flights to eight per week between the world's two largest economies, the U.S. Transportation Department said on Tuesday.

With the Trump administration openly trying to undermine mailin voting this fall, some election officials around the country are hoping to bypass the Postal Service by installing lots of ballot drop boxes in libraries, community centers and other public p...

A quarter century after Israeli spies, a Canadian activist and a Syrian rabbi smuggled nine rare medieval Jewish manuscripts out of Damascus, an Israeli court decided the books will remain under the National Librarys custodianship for their preservation.

Authorities in Mauritius have arrested the captain of the Japanese ship that ran aground near Mauritius and spilled 1,000 tons of oil on the Indian Ocean island's protected coastline.

Several Democratic state attorneys general said on Tuesday they will announce legal action against President Donald Trump's administration over Postal Service changes that may affect mailin voting in the November U.S. presidential election.

Forprofit nursing homes in Connecticut had significantly more cases and deaths from COVID19 than nonprofit ones, according to an independent inquiry released on Tuesday that shed new light on the shortfalls of the state's pandemic response.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said he would oppose the sale of advanced American F35 warplanes to the United Arab Emirates, despite last week's historic deal establishing formal diplomatic ties between the two Mideast nations.

Dozens of doctors in at least two of Kenya's 47 counties have gone on strike over delayed salaries, inadequate personal protective equipment (PPE) for handling COVID19 patients and lack of medical insurance, a union official told Reuters.