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The president of the U.N. General Assembly is warning that a vaccine for COVID19 must be made available to everyone who needs it because if just one country is left out the world will still face a crisis from the coronavirus.

Rescue workers dug through the rubble of a Beirut building for a second day on Friday hoping to find someone alive more than a month after huge port explosion shattered Lebanon's capital.

Two Libyan families filed a civil lawsuit in a U.S. federal court late on Thursday accusing Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), of war crimes, human rights abuses and torture during a 20162017 offensive to seize a key Libyan distr...

The last time Marielle June Chunanon heard from her partner Dante Addug aboard the stormstruck Gulf Livestock 1, he told her he was frightened, and praying for typhoon Maysak to pass.

The United States' largest police union on Friday endorsed President Donald Trump's reelection bid, boosting the Republican's message that he is the candidate of "law and order" amid U.S. protests against police brutality and racial injustice.

A third crewman from a cargo ship that capsized this week off the coast of Japan with more than 40 crew and some 6,000 cattle on board was found alive on Friday after he was spotted by a search plane, Japan's coastguard said.

U.N. human rights experts have told China a new security law for Hong Kong "infringes on certain fundamental rights" and voiced concerns that it could be used to prosecute political activists in the former British colony.

The Madrid regional government is further restricting family reunions and social gatherings to curb a sharp spike in confirmed coronavirus cases as schools are set to reopen, although officials said Friday that new infections in and around the Spanish cap...

A Dutch appeals court will decide on Friday whether to overturn the racial incitement conviction of Geert Wilders, the farright populist party chief who led supporters in chanting that they wanted fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands.

The Kremlin said on Friday that it wanted dialogue with Germany over the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny and that Russian doctors who treated him initially were much more transparent than the German doctors treating him now.

Iran's death toll from the novel coronavirus rose by 118 to 22,044 health ministry spokeswoman told state TV on Friday, with the total number of identified cases spiking to 382,772.

Locusts are threatening another part of Africa, this time in the southern part of the continent, the United Nations said Friday.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held a rare meeting with rival factions on Thursday as they sought to present a united front over Israel and the United Arab Emirates' deal to normalise ties.

Japan's coast guard said the second survivor of a capsized cattle ship on its way to China from New Zealand, who had been pulled unconscious from the waters of the East China Sea on Friday, had died.

According to the scientists, including those from the hospital, 33 of the 215 patients had co-testing for both the virus and antibodies during their COVID-19 disease course, with nine of the 33 showing presence in their blood while also later testing posi...

The police officers involved in the arrest and asphyxiation death of Daniel Prude, a Black man, have been suspended after video of the March incident was released this week, the mayor of Rochester, New York said on Thursday.