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Alaska on Wednesday reported its highest number of new COVID19 cases, a day after the states largest hospital announced it had entered crisis protocol and started rationing care.

North Korea and South Korea test fired ballistic missiles on Wednesday, the latest volley in an arms race https://www.reuters.com/article/usnorthkoreamissilessouthkoreaanalysidUSKBN2BM0G8 in which both nations have developed increasingly sophisticated wea...

The task of meeting Afghanistan's humanitarian needs has global support, he said, as indicated by the $1.2 billion raised by the UN on Monday.

After four decades of war and the deaths lakhs of people, security has largely improved, but Afghanistan’s economy is in ruins.

Taiwanese fighter jets landed on a makeshift runway on a highway strip on Wednesday overseen by President Tsai Ingwen as annual drills reached their peak, skills that would be needed in the event China attacks and targets Taiwan's vulnerable air bases.

Facebook briefly took down Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey's campaign page Tuesday morning, indicating it had been mistakenly flagged as an imposter account, though the governor suggested the move was prompted by her criticism of President Joe Biden's vaccination m...

Missouri State Museum employees tried to defend an LGBTQ history exhibit to state officials before it was removed from the state Capitol after being displayed only four days, according to emails between museum and state officials.

The former head of the Minnesota Republican Party who resigned under pressure last month told The Associated Press on Tuesday that she is considering running to get her old job back or possibly for a public office.

One week after El Salvador became the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, problems continued to plague the system Tuesday.

A judge's decision to release a Wisconsin woman who helped stab her sixthgrade classmate to please online horror character Slender Man from a mental health facility has left the victim's family nervous and afraid, a spokesman said Tuesday.

The meeting of world leaders is shaping up to be a hybrid event of in-person speeches and video statements

A small private plane crashed into the sea off Greece's eastern Aegean Sea island of Samos late Monday, killing both people on board, the Greek coast guard said.

Stakeshop Pty Ltd, an online stock broker backed by tech investment giant Tiger Global, said on Monday it will launch a A$3 ($2) brokerage service in Australia, the country's cheapest.

The U.N. atomic watchdog reached an agreement with Iran on Sunday to solve "the most urgent issue" between them, the overdue servicing of monitoring equipment to keep it running, raising hopes of fresh talks on a wider deal with the West.

The conservative candidate to be German chancellor took on his Social Democrat rival in a TV debate on Sunday, two weeks before elections, pressing him on his record on tackling moneylaundering and whether he would ally with a farleft party.

Four people were killed when a small Russian passenger plane with 14 passengers and two crew on board made an emergency landing in a forest in southeastern Siberia on Sunday, the emergency ministry said.