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Wildfires around the Middle East triggered by a heatwave hitting the region have killed two people, forced thousands of people to leave their homes and detonated landmines along the LebanonIsrael border, state media and officials said Saturday.

A Libyan armed group is holding hostage at least 60 migrants, including two dozen children, in appalling conditions after abducting them over two weeks ago, an aid group aid on Saturday.

Police in a far eastern Russian city detained several dozen protesters on Saturday, the first such crackdown since rallies against the arrest of the provincial governor started three months ago.

China is holding its first classical music festival since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, featuring musicians from the former epicenter of Wuhan in an attempt to aid in the psychological and emotional healing process.

Hong Kong police said on Saturday they had arrested nine people suspected of helping 12 Hong Kong activists who fled the city in August, heading for Taiwan, only to be intercepted by Chinese authorities and held on the mainland.

Sara Branscoms golf cart whizzed down the smooth asphalt path that winds through The Villages, the nations largest retirement community, an expanse of beautiful homes, shops and entertainment venues that bills itself as Floridas Friendliest Hometown.

As Texas flashes signs that November's election could wind up the closest in decades, Republican John Cornyn and Democrat MJ Hegar clashed over the response to the cornavirus pandemic and the confirmation of a Supreme Court justice Friday night in the onl...

China said it dispatched ships and planes to track the U.S. guidedmissile destroyer John S. McCain as it passed near Chineseheld islands in the South China Sea.

London police officers' decision to handcuff a mentally ill Black man even as he told them I can't breathe" was inappropriate and contributed to his death in 2018, a coroner's jury found Friday.

The Trump administration on Friday encouraged U.S. schools and colleges to rethink their ties to the Confucius Institute, a program that brings Chinese language classes to America but, according to federal officials, also invites a malign influence from C...

A North Carolina college campus was placed on lockdown on Friday after several offices received threats involving a Black Lives Matter mural.

Police in central Missouri have resumed the search for the body of a Chinese woman who has been missing in Missouri for a year.

At a time when the COVID19 pandemic has fractured global alliances and goitalone has turned ugly, some world leaders say Friday's awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the U.N. World Food Program was a commitment to the belief that only a concerted effort...

A hotel in Thailand that filed a criminal defamation suit against a guest who posted negative reviews about it online said Friday it will drop the complaint if he makes apologies and other gestures to restore its reputation.

The mother and sisters of a Black teen who was killed by a suburban Milwaukee police officer have been arrested by police who were cracking down on protesters out after a curfew following a decision not to charge the officer.

Trump continued to careen from topic to topic on Sean Hannity's show, promoting conspiracy theories, peddling falsehoods, and launching attacks on Democrats and the media during a roughly 25 minute conversation.