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Brazil's football body said that it will begin testing all squad members 72 hours before matches, including those that are not on the bench.

U.S. appeals court judges on Tuesday signaled reluctance to compel a federal judge to immediately drop the criminal case against President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn as the Justice Department has demanded despite Flynn t...

The Dutch health minister said Tuesday he plans to introduce mandatory home quarantine for people identified by local authorities as having been in close contact with somebody infected with the coronavirus, and for travelers returning from highrisk countr...

Thousands of people took to the streets of Mali's rainy capital Bamako on Tuesday renewing calls for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to step down despite international mediation efforts to resolve a political crisis.

The Latest on Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden's selection of California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate (all times local):

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday tapped Senator Kamala Harris of California as his choice for vice president, his campaign told supporters in a text message.

The S&P 500 on Tuesday rose for an eighth straight session and was within striking distance of its February peak, a level last seen before the onset of the coronavirus crisis that caused one of Wall Street's most dramatic crashes in history.

China's top legislature has decided to extend the mandate for the current group of Hong Kong lawmakers for a year from its expiry date of Sept. 30, after a scheduled election was delayed, state media reported on Tuesday.

The 84-year-old, who had also tested positive for Covid-19 prior to the surgery, is on ventilator support at the Army's Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi.

Sources said four diplomats will join India's Permanent Mission over the course of the next 2-3 months, in time as India begins its two year-term at the Council from January 1, 2021.

Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley appears to have secured reelection with preliminary election results Tuesday showing his party winning a 2219 parliamentary victory in the energyrich Caribbean nation mired in a recession.

Tanuj Mahashabde, who plays the role of Krishnan Subramaniam Iyer in 'Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah', talks about the popularity of the show.

While this was a nice attitude, he said, it could prove detrimental in some cases. He said he had conveyed this to Prime Minister Narendra Modi too earlier Tuesday.

At least two explosions have hit convoys supplying U.S.led coalition forces in Iraq in the last 24 hours, security sources said, the first on Monday evening near the southern border with Kuwait and the second on Tuesday north of Baghdad.

One of the U.S. auto industry's youngest and highestranking executives, General Motors Co's chief financial officer Dhivya Suryadevara, jumped ship on Tuesday for Silicon Valley and the technology sector, where she was named CFO of Stripe, the online paym...

Hong Kong's markets watchdog urged investors to "exercise extreme caution" after shares of Next Digital Ltd rose more than 2,000% to a 12year high, spurred by an online campaign for its detained owner media tycoon Jimmy Lai.