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Southeast Asias top diplomats are holding their annual talks by video Wednesday to discuss the immense crisis wrought by the coronavirus pandemic and rising tensions in the South China Sea amid the escalating rivalry between Washington and Beijing.

On their second date last year, feeling a little drunk at a seaside restaurant, Kim Seoyun let slip a revelation to her South Korean love interest: She had fled North Korea a decade ago, something that sometimes made her feel ashamed in a country where No...

Late-stage studies of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine candidate are on temporary hold while the company investigates if a report of a patient with a serious side effect is linked to the shot.

An outside expert who inspected an immigration detention center in Virginia that experienced a massive coronavirus outbreak is recommending that some highrisk inmates be released after finding flaws in the center's screening procedures.

U.S. stocks dropped for a third straight session on Tuesday as a selloff in highflying technology names continued from the prior week, while Tesla was poised for its worst day in nearly six months after the stock was passed over for inclusion in the S&P 5...

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.

Antiquities dealer and author Forrest Fenn, who gained fame after hiding a treasure chest filled with gold, jewels and other valuables that drove hundreds of thousands of people to search remote corners of the U.S. West for the riches sometimes with trag...

Engineers have developed a robot that can detect whether people are wearing a mask to guard against COVID19 and, if not, politely remind them to put one on.

Uber Technologies Inc on Tuesday said every vehicle on its global ridehailing platform will be electric by 2040, and it vowed to contribute $800 million through 2025 to help drivers switch to batterypowered vehicles, including discounts for vehicles bough...

U.S. Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday will introduce an approximately $300 billion coronavirus aid bill, according to senior aides, which Democrats promptly dismissed as insufficient for meeting the needs created by the pandemic.

The NLSIU action has created an unprecedented uncertainty and has imposed an onerous burden and obligations upon thousands of aspirants, who are now uncertain about the future course of action, the plea said.

Gold prices fell to hit their lowest in nearly two weeks on Tuesday, as the dollar strengthened and investors awaited a policy decision from the European Central Bank this week.

Iran said Tuesday it is building a sophisticated new building near its underground Natanz nuclear site, state TV reported.

India's largest commodity derivatives exchange, MultiCommodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX), said it registered a 12year high in silver delivery on Tuesday.

The Social Dilemma is the first film you'll watch and immediately want to toss your smartphone into the garbage can. And then toss the garbage can through the window of a Facebook executive.

A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced a Christian man to death on blasphemy charges.