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Southeast Asias top diplomats are holding their annual talks by video Wednesday to discuss the immense crisis wrought by the coronavirus pandemic and rising tensions in the South China Sea amid the escalating rivalry between Washington and Beijing.

On their second date last year, feeling a little drunk at a seaside restaurant, Kim Seoyun let slip a revelation to her South Korean love interest: She had fled North Korea a decade ago, something that sometimes made her feel ashamed in a country where No...

An outside expert who inspected an immigration detention center in Virginia that experienced a massive coronavirus outbreak is recommending that some highrisk inmates be released after finding flaws in the center's screening procedures.

Georgia's top elections official said Tuesday that his office has identified about 1,000 cases of potential double voting in the June primary election a felony he's determined to see prosecuted.

Antiquities dealer and author Forrest Fenn, who gained fame after hiding a treasure chest filled with gold, jewels and other valuables that drove hundreds of thousands of people to search remote corners of the U.S. West for the riches sometimes with trag...

U.S. Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday will introduce an approximately $300 billion coronavirus aid bill, according to senior aides, which Democrats promptly dismissed as insufficient for meeting the needs created by the pandemic.

Iran said Tuesday it is building a sophisticated new building near its underground Natanz nuclear site, state TV reported.

A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced a Christian man to death on blasphemy charges.

New Hampshire voters cast their ballots on Tuesday in U.S. Senate and House of Representatives primaries that will test President Donald Trump's influence in the northeastern state that he narrowly lost to Hillary Clinton in 2016.

China has launched an initiative to address global data security issues, a countermove to the U.S. clean network program that is aimed at discouraging other countries from using Chinese technology.

One month after journalist Khaled Drareni was sentenced to three years in prison in Algeria, a court in the North African country will hear his appeal Tuesday.

Hong Kong will expand the size of public gatherings to four people and reopen more sports venues from Friday as the Asian financial hub relaxes strict curbs against a third wave of the coronavirus.

The day came into existence at the 14th session of UNESCO’s general conference in 1966. The same year marked the celebration of the first-ever International Literacy Day, declaring it to be celebrated every year on September 8.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday China acted in an open and transparent manner on the COVID19 outbreak and that it had taken concrete efforts that helped save tens of millions of lives around the world during the pandemic.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Monday announced a "unitary pact" supported by a coalition of parties calling for increased international pressure on President Nicolas Maduro as the country heads toward a congressional election in December.

Three large wildfires continued to burn in California as a recordbreaking heat wave was set to linger across large swaths of the western United States on Monday.