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Suspected Islamists killed three soldiers and 13 civilians and burnt down a church in a raid on a village in Democratic Republic of Congo's northeastern Ituri province, the army and a rights group said on Monday.

Asian shares advanced to record highs on Monday as successful coronavirus vaccine rollouts globally raise hopes of a rapid economic recovery amid new fiscal aid from Washington, while oil prices rose on heightened tensions in the Middle East.

The French Health Ministry has asked regional health agencies and hospitals to go into "crisis organisation" from Feb. 18 to prepare for a possible surge in coronavirus cases due to highly contagious variants, Le Journal Du Dimanche reported on Sunday.

Kosovars began voting on Sunday in a parliamentary election that an antiestablishment party is expected to win, further complicating Western efforts to resolve the country's decadeslong territorial dispute with Serbia.

Kosovo goes to the polls on Sunday in a parliamentary election that an antiestablishment party is expected to win by a landslide, further complicating Western efforts to resolve a decadeslong territorial dispute with Serbia.

Mario Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank, took charge of Italy's new government on Friday, and unveiled a cabinet that mixed unaffiliated technocrats with politicians from across his broad coalition.

White House deputy press secretary T.J. Ducklo has been suspended for a week without pay after he reportedly issued a sexist and profane threat to a journalist seeking to cover his relationship with another reporter.

A senior aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo apologized to state lawmakers this week for the governor's office withholding requested data showing the death toll in nursing homes from COVID19, according to transcripts of the conversation published by lo...

A year ago, Tina Hermann became the first woman to win backtoback world skeleton championships.

Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed a third Ebola case this week in North Kivu province, provincial health minister Eugene Nzanzu Salita said on Friday.

China's state broadcaster has come under fire once more for a performance featuring dancers made up to look African during its annual gala show to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

Hathloul, 31, was provisionally released by Saudi authorities on Wednesday. She was detained in May 2018 with about a dozen other women activists, just weeks before the kingdom's historic lifting of a decades-long ban on female drivers -- a reform they ha...

Australia's secondmost populous city will enter a fiveday snap coronavirus lockdown, authorities said on Friday, barring spectators from the Australian Open tennis tournament for much of the Grand Slam event.

The Chinese foreign ministry has dismissed the BBC investigation as 'false". Britain's government said it showed 'clearly evil acts', and there was strong condemnation from the US State Department.

President Joe Biden visited some of the nation's leading scientists on the frontlines of the fight against COVID19 on Thursday, as his administration looks to boost supplies of vaccines to end the pandemic.

On Lunar New Year holidays, Lee Soonai's pancake house in Seoul is usually packed with customers while others queue outside.