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The British government has appointed a former Royal Marine commando to try to stop people crossing the English Channel from France in small boats.

Countries and international organisations are sending help to Lebanon after a massive explosion in Beirut killed at least 158 people and injured 6,000.

Victoria on Sunday suffered its deadliest day since the pandemic began after reporting 10 deaths, mostly at aged-care facilities.

A fire inside a police union building led authorities in Portland, Oregon, to declare a riot and force protesters away from the offices as violent demonstrations continue in the city that had hoped for calm after federal agents withdrew more than a week a...

Demonstrators at the ministry unfurled a banner that covered the entire facade of the building.

After failing to reach a deal with the U.S. Congress for a fresh round of coronavirus pandemic relief, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders aimed at pumping up America's pandemichit economy.

Hopes that the recent arrest of a Mexican gang leader could calm the countrys most violent state appeared dashed Saturday as the bulletridden bodies of seven men were found in a field and a rival drug cartel announced it was moving in.

Parisians and holidaymakers strolling along the banks of the River Seine or browsing openair markets in Paris must wear a face mask from Monday after authorities imposed new measures to curb a rise in coronavirus infections.

Nature is returning to craters left from lakes drained by two dams that failed in May during torrential rain in midMichigan.

Bob Garick was looking forward to being a field supervisor during the doorknocking phase of the 2020 census, but as the number of new coronavirus cases in Florida shot up last month, he changed his mind.

All flight operations were suspended towards the end of March but later international and domestic flights were allowed on selected routes.

According to Dahal's secretariat, the infected persons are the team of police personnel stationed at the entrance of the residence. Security personnel who move around with the former prime minister have, however, tested negative, the report said.

At least 26 people have died after 46 days of heavy rains in South Korea, with the country's longest monsoon in seven years causing more flooding, landslides and evacuations on Saturday.

Hundreds of thousands of students in the isolated Gaza Strip returned to schools after five months of closure, despite the ongoing pandemic that has seen school years postponed elsewhere across the globe.

The health minister said on Friday that at least 120 of the 5,000 people who were injured on Tuesday are in critical condition.

It was almost as if Emmanuel Macron forgot that Lebanon is no longer a French protectorate.