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British authorities can share information with U.S. prosecutors about two members of a suspected Islamic State militant cell in Syria known as The Beatles, after a U.K. Supreme Court ruling that may lead to the men being tried in America.

The findings, published Wednesday in Nature, suggest that men, particularly those older than age 60, may need to depend more on vaccines to protect against the infection.

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The Trump administration said Wednesday it is imposing sanctions on Chinese officials responsible for Beijings military buildup in the South China Sea. The move is the latest salvo in the U.S. pressure campaign against China that has picked up steam ahead...

Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok met Wednesday with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, saying he would discuss topics ranging from trade ties to concerns about human rights violations in China and the contentious national security law for Hong Kong.

Russia is preparing to approve a second vaccine against COVID19 in late September or early October, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said on Wednesday.

Michel Barnier, the European Union's chief Brexit negotiator, on Wednesday repeated his call for a deal with Britain on future ties by the end of October, after negotiations made little progress last week.

Amnesty International on Wednesday urged for the release of at least six protesters abducted when armed men, apparently allied with Libyas U.N.supported government, fired live ammunition to disperse a demonstration in the capital.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed the Libyan conflict and countering Iranian regional influence with his Emirati counterpart during a brief visit to the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday.

A young Zimbabwean thrust into antigovernment activism while searching for his missing journalist brother has died of colon cancer, just as wellwishers had raised money to get him into surgery.

The United States is set to execute Lezmond Mitchell, a convicted murderer and the only Native American on federal death row, on Wednesday, despite opposition from the Navajo Nation, which says the government is infringing tribal sovereignty.

Pakistans military said Wednesday it will deploy rescue helicopters to Karachi to transport some 200 families to safety after canal waters flooded the city amid monsoon rains, displacing scores of people, officials said Wednesday.

Archaeologists have dug up the remains of more than 1,500 people, many of them believed to have died in an epidemic, buried in a 19th century mass grave while excavating as part of a city development project in Osaka in western Japan.

An excavation in the western Japanese city of Osaka has unearthed more than 1,500 human bones at what is thought to be a burial site dating back some 160 years, city officials have said.

Police arrested more than 60 people on Tuesday in a protest march in Louisville, Kentucky, organized for Breonna Taylor, a Black woman killed in March by police officers who burst into her apartment.

A major search and rescue operation in the eastern Aegean Sea was continuing after authorities received an emergency call late Tuesday from a vessel carrying an unknown number of migrants, Greeces coast guard said early Wednesday.