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There are no oligarchs in Belarus who would give money for hot meals, medical treatment and tents. Even to pay police fines, Belarusian protesters collect money themselves, analyst Alexander Klaskouski said.

Tropical Storm Marco is swirling over the Gulf of Mexico heading for a possible hit on the Louisiana coast as a hurricane, while Tropical Storm Laura knocked utilities out as it battered Hispaniola early Sunday, following a track forecast to take it to th...

Biden called it the 'fundamental flaw' of the Donald Trump administration's handling of the pandemic, which has claimed the lives of more than 175,000 Americans.

Trump's campaign generals look at the map and still see numerous routes where an upset win here or there would put their man safely over the top.

About 2,000 people in northeastern Brazil were living away from their homes Saturday after a pipe in a water diversion project ruptured, damaging a dam and flooding the project's power plant, authorities said.

Several people were arrested in Charlotte, North Carolina, after some demonstrators skirmished with authorities late Friday, days before the start of the Republican National Convention, police said.

A lifesized statue of Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell has been vandalized outside the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle.

Around 1,500 volunteers equipped with face masks, hand disinfectant and tracking gadgets attended an indoor concert in Germany on Saturday as part of a study to simulate how the novel coronavirus spreads in large gatherings.

The future of the Supreme Court is on the line, though it would be hard to tell from the Democratic National Convention that just concluded.

Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa alKadhimi had just embarked on a state visit to Washington when gunmen shot dead the young protest leader Reham Yacoub in her car in Basra on Wednesday.

Around 1,500 people marched through the streets of the Russian far eastern city of Khabarovsk on Saturday, marking the seventh consecutive weekend of protests after the region's governor was detained in early July.

The sixmember Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has welcomed a ceasefire announcement in Libya, the UAE news agency WAM reported on Saturday.

Hundreds of wildfires burning across Central and Northern California that have already killed six people more than doubled in size on Friday, becoming some of the largest in state history and threatening small towns in the path of the flames.

The famous floating gardens of Xochimilco reopened to visitors Friday after a fivemonth lockdown for the coronavirus pandemic.

The convention’s broadcasts drew 122 million views across 15 digital platform livestreams and also attracted 85.1 million to television broadcasts, the campaign said.

South Africa's confirmed COVID19 cases have surpassed 600,000, the health ministry said on Friday, although the number of new cases has been declining since a peak in July.