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Haitian police on Wednesday clashed with rockhurling protesters in the capital PortAuPrince amid street demonstrations against President Jovenel Moise after his government retired three Supreme Court judges earmarked as his potential replacements.

More than two decades after a lowkey start to his Americas Cup career, two-time champion Jimmy Spithill is back in Auckland, New Zealand, hoping to help steer Italy to its first victory in the 170-year-old competition.

Twenty United Nations peacekeepers were wounded, several seriously, in central Mali on Wednesday when their base came under fire, the U.N. mission said.

\While these wider symptoms were noted in addition to the known or socalled classic symptoms of loss of sense of smell and taste, fever and new persistent cough, around 60 per cent of infected people did not report any symptoms in the week leading up to t...

Just under half of Americans think former U.S. President Donald Trump should be convicted in his Senate impeachment trial after the first day of the historic proceedings, according to an Ipsos poll conducted for Reuters released on Wednesday, with opinion...

Greek police clashed with students protesting against education reforms expected to be approved by parliament on Wednesday which opponents say threaten guarantees to academic freedom built up in the years following the end of military rule in the 1970s.

WHO said the vaccine could also be used in places where "variants are present," despite a recent study suggesting it was far less effective against a strain of the virus first detected in South Africa.

British people should expect to receive repeated vaccinations against COVID19 in future to keep pace with mutations of the virus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday.

Hong Kong will ease strict coronavirus restrictions from Feb. 18, reopening sports and entertainment facilities and extending dining hours, Health Secretary Sophia Chan said on Wednesday, as the city logged a steady decline in daily cases.

Dozens of civil rights and advocacy organizations are calling on the Biden administration to immediately halt federal executions after an unprecedented run of capital punishment under President Donald Trump and to commute the sentences of inmates on feder...

The virus that causes COVID19 could have been circulating in other regions before it was identified in the central Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019, a top expert at China's health authority said on Tuesday.

Two U.S. carrier groups conducted joint operations in the South China Sea, the U.S. Navy said on Tuesday, the first such exercise since July 2020 amid heightened tensions in the contested waters.

Former President Donald Trumps second impeachment trial begins on Tuesday, a solemn proceeding that will force lawmakers to relive the violent events of Jan. 6 as House Democrats prosecute their case for incitement of insurrection.

This one-off benefit is intended to help relieve millions of families hurt by the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

Russia's prison authority has this month issued tenders for the purchase of hundreds of tasers, smoke grenades and protective gear, according to state procurement documents.

Cyprus and Greece will only accept a peace deal to end a decadesold division of the Mediterranean island based on U.N. resolutions, their leaders said on Monday, rejecting a twostate formula supported by Turkey and Turkish Cypriots.