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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose officials seemed to be taken by surprise, issued an unusually strong condemnation of a regional Arab neighbour and instructed the Palestinian ambassador to the UAE to return immediately.

Israel on Thursday charged five members of its border security force with stealing from Palestinians who were crossing illegally into Israel from the West Bank.

Thousands of Polish pilgrims were making their way to the holiest site in the staunchly Catholic country on Thursday, shrugging off record COVID19 infection data that has forced authorities to tighten restrictions in some counties.

Antigovernment protesters freed from a detention centre in the Belarusian capital Minsk spoke on Thursday of having suffered beatings, cramped conditions and starvation rations.

Coronavirus is making it more difficult for indigenous Wayuu people in Colombia to survive and putting children at risk of malnutrition, advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday.

Australia posted its lowest oneday rise in new COVID19 cases in more than three weeks on Thursday, stoking hopes that a second wave of new infections gripping Victoria state is finally being brought under control.

Two cities in China have found traces of the new coronavirus in imported frozen food and on food packaging, local authorities said on Thursday, raising fears that contaminated food shipments might cause new outbreaks.

Ethiopia has detained more than 9,000 people after deadly clashes last month, the staterun human rights commission told Reuters, raising fears that a government hailed for reforms is returning to the ironfisted tactics of past administrations.

A Malaysian court jailed an Indian man for five months on Thursday for violating a home quarantine order, leading to dozens of new coronavirus infections, the Bernama state news agency reported.

New powers allowing British police officers to stop, question and detain people at the borders on suspicion of espionage or foreign interference came into force on Thursday in a response to a 2018 chemical attack blamed on Russian agents.

A sample of frozen chicken wings imported into the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen from Brazil has tested positive for coronavirus, the city government said on Thursday, raising fears that contaminated food shipments could cause new outbreaks.

New Zealand was scrambling to trace the source of its first coronavirus outbreak in more than three months, reporting 13 new community infections on Thursday, after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had sought to eradicate the virus with a hard lockdown.

German Health Minister Jens Spahn on Thursday told ZDF television that he expected there would be a COVID19 vaccine in the coming months and definitely next year.

In the southern Lebanese town of Haris, a newlywed couple is living in one of Safy Faqeehs apartments for free. Hes never met them before, and they arent on a honeymoon. Their apartment in Beirut was wrecked when last weeks massive explosion wreaked destr...

The Israeli military said it struck Hamas militant sites in the Gaza Strip early Thursday in response to continued launches of explosivesladen balloons from the Palestinian territory into Israel.

Helena Miller listened to teachers, terrified to reenter classrooms, and parents, exhausted from trying to make virtual learning work at home. She heard from school officials who spent hundreds of hours on thousands of details buses, classrooms, football...