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As a Palestinian living in Jerusalem, Ismail Daiq is used to negotiating the dividing lines between communities: the daily commute to his Jordan Valley date farm involves crossing a checkpoint on his way home.

The UK government described this as good news for the world because the impact of COVID vaccines on transmission has been a crucial unknown in the fight against the pandemic.

Strong winds threatening to fan a bushfire prompted Australia on Wednesday to urge thousands of people to leave their homes in the provincial capital of Perth, complicating a lockdown after the state detected its first coronavirus infection in 10 months.

For generations, the country was called Burma, after the dominant Burman ethnic group. But in 1989, one year after the ruling junta brutally suppressed a pro-democracy uprising, military leaders suddenly changed its name to Myanmar.

Colombia's capital Bogota will lift tough restrictions and a citywide red alert against COVID19 on Wednesday, Mayor Claudia Lopez said on Tuesday, having overcome the peak of a second wave of coronavirus infections.

U.S. president Joe Biden is on Tuesday expected to announce a task force to reunify families separated at the U.S.Mexico border during the administration of former President Donald Trump.

When the young woman was capturing her elaborate workout routine, she inadvertently also captured the military coup unfolding in her country in the background of her video.

A Russian court convened on Tuesday to consider jailing Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny for up to three and a half years in a case that has sparked nationwide protests and talk of new Western sanctions.

The picture that emerges in the new Federal Election Commission reports is of Trump mounting a furious public relations effort to spread the lie and keep generating money from it, rather than making a sustained legal push to try to support his conspiracy...

Lebanon's army said on Monday it had arrested 18 people, some Lebanese and others Syrian, with links to Islamic State.

U.S. congressional Republicans face a week of reckoning ahead of Donald Trump's second impeachment trial as the former president contends with a Tuesday deadline to respond to the charges and his party mulls whether to depose Liz Cheney as one of its Hous...

After spending six seasons watching on as Lionel Messi took most of Barcelona's free kicks, Luis Suarez rediscovered his knack for striking dead balls with a superb goal in Atletico Madrid's 42 win at Cadiz on Sunday.

Britain is confident its COVID19 vaccination programme is secure after receiving guarantees from the European Union, the trade minister said on Sunday, trying to smooth over a row about supplies.

Germany's military will send medical staff and equipment to Portugal, where space in hospital intensive care units is running out after a surge in coronavirus infections, the defence ministry in Berlin said on Sunday.

Philanthropy activists say Scott's actions are likely to make other billionaires -- including her ex-husband -- take notice.

China reported on Sunday the biggest daily increase in new coronavirus cases in six days, driven by a jump in infections in a northeastern city.