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A hospital president and the director of the health commission in the northern Chinese city of Qingdao have been fired after Chinas latest coronavirus outbreak, authorities said Thursday.

Mexican security forces have captured drug gang leader Adán Ochoa, known as "El Azul," who headed a cartel central Mexico blamed for fanning a surge of violence this year.

Melania Trump says her 14yearold son, Barron, had tested positive for the coronavirus but has since tested negative.

Herbert Kretzmer, the journalist and lyricist best known for his Englishlanguage adaptation of the musical Les Miserables, has died. He was 95.

A Paris court on Wednesday jailed an Algerian man for 28 years after convicting him of attempted terrorist murder for attacking police guarding Notre Dame Cathedral with a hammer in 2017, crying: This is for Syria!

NBC News agreed to put President Donald Trump before voters in a town hall event on Thursday after the president submitted to an independent coronavirus test with the results reviewed by Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Sudans annual inflation has hit a new record peak as prices of bread and other staples keep surging, according to official figures released on Tuesday.

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An opposition figure says heavily armed police have besieged the campaign headquarters of Bobi Wine, a pop star and politician who is seeking Uganda's presidency in elections set for 2021, an opposition figure said.

Belgiums intensive care units will hit capacity by midNovember if new coronavirus cases continue to soar at the same pace, the countrys health authorities warned Wednesday.

More than 10,000 people have been evacuated in Cambodia after a tropical storm triggered flash floods, an official said Wednesday.

A trio of space travelers has launched successfully to the International Space Station, for the first time using a fasttrack maneuver to reach the orbiting outpost in just three hours.

NEW DELHI India has confirmed more than 63,000 new cases of the coronavirus, an increase of over 8,000 from the previous day but still far fewer than it was reporting a month ago, when the virus was at its peak in the country.

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett returns to Capitol Hill for a third day of confirmation hearings as senators dig deeper into the conservative judge's outlook on abortion, health care and a potentially disputed presidential election the Democrats...

President Donald Trump is persisting with the myth that Democratic rival Joe Biden proposes to ban fracking. Biden doesn't.

Thousands of angry farmers chanting antigovernment slogans protested Tuesday in Warsaw against draft legislation that would ban fur farms, religious slaughter for export and the use of animals for entertainment and in circuses.