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Sri Lankas Catholic leaders urged the government on Tuesday not to proceed with a constitutional amendment that would consolidate power in the presidents hands, saying it would undermine democracy.

The European Union wants a Brexit trade deal with the United Kingdom but must be prepared should an agreement not be reached, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday.

Prosecutors have offered additional explanation about why they believe longer sentences should be given if four former Minneapolis police officers are convicted in the death of George Floyd.

The soldiers spent months behind enemy lines, marching hundreds of miles through the tangled jungles and steep mountains of Burma as they battled hunger and disease between firefights with Japanese forces during their secret mission.

An Australian politician who was in a secret relationship with the premier of the country's biggest state economy sought to broker deals and set up government meetings for Chinese businessmen wanting to establish a casino and businesses in the Pacific isl...

Unemployment across the U.K. spiked sharply higher in August, clear evidence that the jobless rate is set to surge higher when a British government salarysupport scheme ends this month and new restrictions are imposed on local areas to suppress a second w...

Argentina surpassed 900,000 cases of coronavirus on Monday, with strong growth of infections in large populated centers in the interior of the country after months of the virus' being concentrated in Buenos Aires and its suburbs.

Taiwan has labelled new spying accusations by China as fake news after Chinese state television aired a programme showing a Taiwanese academic arrested in China on national security grounds at a time of heightened TaipeiBeijing tensions.

The leader of a farright party with seats in the Slovak parliament was convicted of illegal use of neoNazi symbols and sentenced to four years and four months in prison on Monday.

In an address at a think-tank, US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun said there was an "enormous" opportunity for a "security relationship" with India as he elaborated on conditions for a fundamental alignment between the two countries while referri...

Sixtyseven people were arrested during a downtown celebration after the Los Angeles Lakers won their 17th National Basketball Association championship, police said Monday.

Four people killed in an eastern Missouri house fire included a married couple, their daughter and a granddaughter, the victims' family members said.

French Prime Minister Jean Castex refused to rule out further local lockdowns in France Monday, after French health authorities reported about 43,000 new infections over the weekend. The path of the virus is accelerating rapidly across the country and the...

The European Union warned Monday that it would slap sanctions on Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and other Belarus officials if he fails to enter into talks with the opposition and order an end to the crackdown on protesters launched after a disput...

European Union countries are getting ready to adopt a common traffic light system to coordinate traveling across the 27nation bloc, but a return to a full freedom of movement in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic remains far from reach.

The Bank of England has asked commercial banks whether they are ready for negative interest rates, signaling that the central bank is moving closer to cutting its key interest rate below zero.