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Deep differences within Italy's ruling coalition over the future of Monte dei Paschi (MPS) could come to a head this week as parliament starts voting on next year's budget.

Australia's competition regulator on Tuesday said Citigroup Inc, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, Deutsche Bank AG and senior executives have been committed to Australian Federal Court for trial on criminal cartel charges, in the country's biggest...

The potential Iranian threat has become an increasing concern in recent weeks following the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Iran has blamed the death on Israel, which has been suspected in previous killings of Iranian nuclea...

A federal watchdog agency on Monday reported that one of President Donald Trumps economic advisers repeatedly violated the law during the campaign season with his criticisms of Joe Biden, now the presidentelect.

Washington has agreed to prolong a set of temporary migration protections that allow immigrants from six countries to live in the United States, officials said on Monday.

President Donald Trump has declared that he has absolute power to issue a pardon to himself. Yet the law is much murkier than his confidence suggests.

Pope Francis will make the first visit by a pope to Iraq next March, the Vatican said on Monday, a risky fourday trip that has eluded his predecessors.

European Union foreign ministers evaluated grounds on Monday for sanctions against Turkey over a Mediterranean gas dispute before the bloc's leaders decide at a summit on Dec. 1011 whether to make good on their threat to impose punitive measures.

Greece said on Monday that it will not reopen schools, restaurants and courts until Jan. 7, effectively extending most of the restrictions the country imposed last month to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Ethiopia's government denied on Monday that northern forces whom its troops have fought for a month would be able to mount a guerrilla insurgency, while diplomats said a United Nations team was shot at while trying to visit a refugee camp.

New Zealand will release on Tuesday an 800page royal commission report looking into the killing of 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch in March 2019.

As the coronavirus epidemic worsens, U.S. health experts hope Joe Biden's administration will put in place something Donald Trump's has not a comprehensive national testing strategy.

Critics also say the change in style is fuelled by the pursuance of aggressive nationalism by the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) under the leadership of President Xi Jinping.

Former Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez died on Saturday in Montevideo at the age of 80 after suffering from lung cancer, his son said in a tweet on Sunday.

U.S. President Donald Trump campaigned in Georgia on Saturday for two Republican senators at a rally that some in his party fear could end up hurting, not helping, their chances by focusing on his efforts to reverse his own election defeat.

President Donald Trump flooded his first postelection political rally with groundless grievances and debunked conspiracy theories Saturday as he declared himself the winner of an election he decisively lost.