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A Lebanese man who was critically injured in the massive explosion at Beirut’s port last year has died nearly 15 months after the blast

European Union regulators have opened an investigation into graphics chipmaker Nvidia’s $40 billion purchase of chip designer Arm

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Thursday lamented that the intelligence community often brought White males to testify before his committee.

A resident of a high-rise condominium in Thailand cut the support rope for two painters, apparently angry she wasn't told they would be doing work, and left them hanging above the 26th floor until a couple rescued them, police said Wednesday.

A media watchdog says it has recorded more than 30 instances of violence and threats of violence against Afghan journalists in the last two months

Sudanese security forces have detained three prominent pro-democracy figures, as internal and international pressure mounts on the military following a coup

India is criticizing China for passing a new land boundary law which it says could impact the two countries’ long-running border dispute

Boris Johnson's government has just laid out its annual tax and spending plans with a clear central theme: building back better after the pandemic.

Officials say violence at an anti-France Islamist rally in eastern Pakistan has left at least one police officer and two demonstrators dead

An Israeli settlement monitor says Israel has approved about 3,000 settler homes in the occupied West Bank

Great white shark attacks are rare, and when they do occur, they are sometimes fatal. But attacks against the human species are often a result of mistaken identity, new research published on Tuesday shows.

Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, who led this week's coup in Sudan, has vowed to usher the country to an elected government

Iran's president said Wednesday that a cyberattack that paralyzed every gas station in the Islamic Republic was designed to get “people angry by creating disorder and disruption,” as long lines still snaked around the pumps a day after the incident began.

London — Queen Elizabeth II will not attend the upcoming COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland following medical advice to rest, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday. The queen spent a night in the hospital last week to undergo preliminary checks, according to the Palace — her first overnight stay in eight years.

Fox News asked people in downtown Nashville to evaluate President Biden nine months since taking office.

Portugal’s parliament is poised to reject the minority Socialist government’s proposed state budget for 2022

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is meeting with Greek officials during a visit to Athens that's expected to focus on furthering Chinese investments in Greece

Deutsche Bank has seen its net profit increase 6%, to 329 million euros, in the third quarter despite a sharp increase in restructuring costs

Iran’s president is saying that a cyberattack that shut down gas stations across the nation aimed to get “people angry by creating disorder and disruption.”

Among the once-taboo professions emerging from Somalia’s decades of conflict and Islamic extremism is the world of arts, and a 21-year-old female painter has faced more opposition than most

Myanmar's ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi testified in court on Tuesday for the first time since she was overthrown in a military coup.

They have minimal support in polls. But by teaming up with other opposition parties for the first time, they have been made a boogeyman by the unpopular party in power.

The U.S. government is scheduled to ask Britain’s High Court to overturn a judge’s decision that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be sent to the United States to face espionage charges

The defense for former Nissan executive Greg Kelly has argued there is no evidence or motives linking him to alleged under-reporting of his ex-boss Carlos Ghosn’s compensation

A statement by Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok's office said other government officials remained in detention, their locations unknown.

After three days of walking along a scorching highway in southern Mexico, a couple thousand migrants decided to rest here, receive medical attention for badly blistered feet, wash clothing in the river and doze in any shade they could find

Despite the flame-throwing rhetoric of their leaders, conservative supporters of Poland’s ruling party are dependent on millions of euros in aid, and don’t want to risk it.

The group Miles4Migrants is coordinating the effort with the help of major airlines to use donated miles and credit card points to help refugees.

Police in central China were hunting Tuesday for a man who killed seven people, including a village Communist Party chief, before jumping off a bridge, officers said. The suspect, surnamed Gao, stabbed to death a family of five, including two children, in Wuhan on Sunday, the city's police force said in a statement on its official Weibo microblog.

With less than one week until world leaders plan to meet in Glasgow for the Climate Change Conference, a UN report released Tuesday revealed goals to lower greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 will not be enough.

Poland’s ruling party leader has presented plans for a bill to “defend the fatherland.”

The land affected becomes largely useless for agriculture and infrastructure.

Protesters demanding civilian rule flooded into the streets of major cities a day after a military takeover. Many schools, banks and shops shut, answering a call for civil disobedience from pro-democracy groups.

An eerie silence lingers over Hospital Universitaire de la Paix in the Delmas neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.

A United Nations agency reports that fresh pledges by governments to cut greenhouse gas emissions raise hopes but aren’t strict enough to avoid catastrophic global warming

EU ministers have held emergency talks focused on energy that didn't produce immediate results amid divisions between the 27 member countries on how to tackle a crunch that has seen consumers’ bills skyrocket this year

Tokyo — In what was called the most anticipated live TV appearance of the year, 30-year-old Princess Mako defended her controversial decision to marry a man some here branded unworthy of her status. Mako's decision had drawn widespread sympathy, as well as outrage from a small but noisy band of hardcore traditionalists. 

Iranian state television says a cyberattack has targeted gas stations across the Islamic Republic

Samsung’s de facto chief Lee Jae-yong has been fined 70 million won, or about $60,000, for illegally using the anesthetic drug propofol

London’s police force has apologized to the family of two murdered sisters and said its initial response to the crime was “below the standard that it should have been.”

The Netherlands’ biggest pension fund says it will stop investing in companies that produce fossil fuels

Tokyo — In what was called the most anticipated live TV appearance of the year, 30-year-old Princess Mako defended her controversial decision to marry a man some here branded unworthy of her status. Mako's decision had drawn widespread sympathy, as well as outrage from a small but noisy band of hardcore traditionalists. 

Germany’s newly elected parliament is set to hold its first meeting

Southeast Asian leaders have begun their annual summit without Myanmar, amid a diplomatic standoff over the military-ruled nation’s exclusion from the group’s meetings

For eight months, a relatively obscure Lebanese judge has been quietly investigating one of the world’s worst non-nuclear explosions with only four assistants — and a lot of powerful detractors trying to block him

A Seoul hospital says former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo has died

Mexico City — A compact Hurricane Rick roared ashore along Mexico's southern Pacific coast early Monday with 105 mph winds and heavy rain amid warnings of potential flash floods in the coastal mountains.

He was the leader of the drug cartel called the "Gulf Clan"- which the U.S. State Department calls "heavily armed and extremely violent."

Australia’s prime minister says the country is set to reduce emissions by 35% below 2005 levels by 2030