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A salvage team is still trying to plug a fuel leak from the firestricken New Diamond oil supertanker, Sri Lankan Navy spokesman Indika de Silva said on Friday.

Russian police have traced opposition politician Alexei Navalny's movements and what he drank before falling ill in Siberia last month, and are trying to locate a witness who has left the country, the interior ministry said on Friday.

South Korea posted a slight uptick in the daily number of its coronavirus cases on Friday even as infections from a church and a political rally that sparked a second wave of outbreaks ease.

In July Trump gave the unprecedented order to exclude illegal immigrants from the population count.

Authorities have shut a primary school in the Basque Country region of Spain after several teachers tested positive for COVID19, the first to be closed entirely in the week classrooms reopened across the country.

Stricter measures will be adopted in Portugal's two biggest cities to contain a worrying rise in coronavirus cases as workers slowly return to offices and pupils gear up to go back to schools, Prime Minister Antonio Costa said on Thursday.

The head of U.S. forces in South Korea said on Thursday that he was not seeing indications that North Korea was looking to "lash out" ahead of an expected military parade as Pyongyang is internally focused on dealing with typhoon damage and the coronaviru...

A large fire erupted on Thursday at Beirut port, sending a huge column of smoke above the city a little more than a month after a massive blast devastated the port and surrounding residential area of the Lebanese capital.

A store of oil and tyres at Beirut port caught fire on Thursday, a military source said, a little more than a month after a massive blast devastated the port and a surrounding residential area of the Lebanese capital.

The video remained on the 'liked' section of Liu Xiaoming's account for over an hour on Wednesday, attracting a stream of comments and reactions before being taken down.

The Kremlin said on Thursday it was possible there had been a misunderstanding after Italy's prime minister said that President Vladimir Putin had promised to set up a commission to investigate the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has told Italy's prime minister that he will set up a committee to investigate the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Giuseppe Conte was quoted on Thursday as saying.

The European Union must impose 'meaningful' sanctions on Turkey unless Ankara pulls its maritime assets from disputed areas in the eastern Mediterranean, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an opinion piece published on Thursday.

Britain's first citizen's assembly on climate change called on the government on Thursday to ensure moves to meet the country's climate targets are fair, with public transport made cheaper and taxes for those flying the most and furthest.

Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga is the voters' favourite to succeed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, according to a poll published by the daily Mainichi Shimbun on Thursday.

U.S. President Donald Trump's reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee announced on Wednesday that they raised a combined $210 million in August, falling far short of matching Democratic challenger Joe Biden's recordbreaking haul of $364....