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Turkey is battling the worst wildfires in its history, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, as fires spread to a power station in the country's southwest after reducing swathes of coastal forest to ashes.

This years Gulf of Mexico dead zone an area where theres too little oxygen to support marine life is larger than average, according to researchers.

In this fight against COVID-19, Biden asserted, the United States was committed to become the arsenal of vaccines, the manner in which it was the arsenal of democracy during World War II.

Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya early on Wednesday left the Polish embassy in Tokyo, where she had sought protection after refusing her team's orders to return home in a dramatic diplomatic twist at the Tokyo Olympics.

For most nights at the Tokyo Olympics, NBC's prime time coverage is drawing about half the audience that the Games had in Rio de Janeiro five years ago.

North Korea wants international sanctions banning its metal exports and imports of refined fuel and other necessities lifted before it restarts denuclearisation talks with the United States, South Korean lawmakers said on Tuesday.

Germany's standing committee on vaccination, the Stiko, has been reluctant to give the go-ahead for all youngsters and only explicitly recommended the vaccination for the age group between 12 and 16 if they suffer from certain chronic illnesses.

The Delta variant was responsible for “more than 90 percent” of cases

The plan by Myanmar's ruling generals to hold elections in two years shows they are stalling for time and the need for Southeast Asian countries to step up pressure on them, a senior State Department official said on Monday.

A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Indiana University can proceed with its plan to require students and employees to get vaccinated for COVID19, in what is the highest court decision regarding college immunization mandates.

The U.S. on Monday finally reached President Joe Bidens goal of getting at least one COVID-19 shot in the arms of 70% of American adults -- a month late and amid a fierce surge by the delta variant that is swamping hospitals and leading to new mask rules...

A conservative coalition registered an exleader of the 1980s Contra rebels Monday as presidential candidate in Nicaragua's Nov. 7 elections.

Mudslides from heavy rains caused "extreme damage to a major interstate and left it blocked with piles of boulders and logs, Colorado transportation officials said Sunday, as forecasters warned of more flash floods in the coming days across the Rocky Moun...

Despite growing concerns over the delta variant, Jungle Cruise still drew moviegoers out to theaters during the films opening weekend to sail atop the North American box office.

Peru will seek "a new deal" with its allimportant mining sector by providing incentives for projects with "social profitability" in the world's No. 2 copper producer, new Energy and Mining Minister Ivan Merino told Reuters.

A tanker ship allegedly used in an illegal scheme to smuggle oil to North Korea has a brandnew owner: the U.S. government.