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Spain's former King Juan Carlos was dogged by reports he was linked to corrupt dealings, including international transfers of tens of millions of dollars, before he left the country to try to relieve the pressure on the reign of his son King Felipe.

President Donald Trump on Monday denied trying to undermine the Postal Service's ability to handle a flood of mailin ballots ahead of the November U.S. election, as Democrats prepared to move against changes his administration has set in motion.

The United States will not consent to Israeli annexations in the occupied West Bank for "some time," preferring to focus on the IsraelUAE normalisation deal and wider regional peace efforts, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said on Monday.

Indonesian troops fatally shot a separatist leader in ongoing clashes between security forces and a rebel group near the worlds largest gold mine in Indonesias easternmost Papua region, police and rebels said Monday.

European Union leaders will send a message of solidarity to Belarusian protesters and will tell Russia not to meddle in the former Soviet republic when they hold an emergency video conference on the crisis on Wednesday, EU officials said.

FBI agents on Monday arrested Puerto Rico Rep. Mara Milagros Charbonier and three other people, a spokesman for the prostatehood New Progressive Party said Sunday.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe underwent a medical checkup in hospital on Monday, a government source said, amid concern voiced by a top official that the premier could be suffering fatigue from handling the coronavirus pandemic.

The deafening cheer for Anon Nampa at Thailand's biggest demonstration in years underlined the bookish human rights lawyer's emergence at the forefront of a youth protest movement with his taboobreaking call for reforms to the monarchy.

Streetcars ground to a halt and some stores closed in the Hague after a power outage hit large parts of the Dutch city Monday.

The U.S. state of Iowa is seeking about $4 billion in disaster relief after a storm packing hurricaneforce winds tore across the Midwest last Monday, Governor Kim Reynolds said.

Hong Kong reported 44 new coronavirus cases on Monday as the government announced an extension to social distancing measures aimed at controlling further spreading of the virus, which has seen a resurgence in the Asian financial hub since early July.

CanSino last month said it was in talks for opportunities to launch late-stage – or Phase 3 – trials in Saudi Arabia, Russia, Brazil and Chile.

U.S. drug developer Novavax Inc said on Monday that it is starting a midstage study of its experimental COVID19 vaccine in South Africa, as the country experiences a surge in coronavirus cases.

Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., a former police officer, faces a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for 13 raperelated charges and 13 murder counts stemming from crimes in the 1970s and 1980s across six California counties. He pleaded...

China reported no new local coronavirus cases in the western region of Xinjiang on Aug. 16, according to national data, marking the first time the area's case count was zero since midJuly.

Gunfire at a gathering of more than 200 mostly young people in north Philadelphia wounded five people, including a 16yearold, as police said officers came under fire in one of a number of shootings across the city during another violent weekend.