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The United Nations' atomic watchdog agency said Wednesday its inspectors have been able to visit the second of two disputed sites where Iran is suspected of having stored or used undeclared nuclear material in the past.

Greek authorities say 139 vulnerable asylumseekers who had been living in overcrowded Greek island camps have left for Germany, as part of efforts to ease overcrowding and move refugees to other European countries.

The unsolved slaying of former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme 34 years ago wont be reopened, a Swedish prosecutor said Wednesday, adding that those who have requested a review have no connection to the case that would justify a substantive review of th...

Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was granted bail on Wednesday after being formally charged in court in connection with participating in an unauthorised assembly in October 2019 and violating a city antimask law.

Once it was just the jobless young men who set off from Tunisias rocky northern beaches for Sicily, usually defying their parents in hopes of a better future.

If there is anything the Rev. Mario Carminati and the traumatized residents of Italys Bergamo province remember about the worst days of the coronavirus outbreak, its the wail of ambulance sirens piercing the silence of lockdown.

For much of the opening presidential debate, moderator Chris Wallace looked like a man trying to stop a runaway train with his bare hands.

There was no handshake as the two men took the stage and while this was due to Covid-19 restrictions, the absence of the traditional greeting symbolized the bitterness engulfing the country in the final countdown to November 3.

Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden did not shake hands or wear masks as they entered their first White House debate on Tuesday, adhering to protocols on social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce parted ways Tuesday with its longtime political strategist, as the organization, once a Republican stalwart, has demonstrated a more bipartisan spending streak in the Donald Trump era.

A bill to fund the federal government cleared a key Senate procedural hurdle Tuesday as lawmakers sought to accomplish the bare minimum before they depart Washington to campaign preventing a shutdown when the new fiscal year begins.

A flurry of federal court rulings this month over whether South Carolinians need witnesses to sign their mailin ballots this November has left many confused and frustrated as voting registration deadlines approach, with absentee voting beginning in less t...

The surest sign of how the coronavirus shutdown has devastated the television industry is the fourthplace finish of CBS in what was nominally the first week of a new fall season.

The Colombian Navy says 94 Haitian migrants who got stuck at sea while trying to make their way to Central America have been rescued.

A former ComEd vice president pleaded guilty Tuesday to his role in what prosecutors say was a longrunning bribery conspiracy in which the energy utility sought legislative support from one of Illinois most powerful Democrats, House Speaker Michael Madiga...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been buried in a private ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Ginsburg was laid to rest Tuesday beside her husband and near some of her former colleagues on the court.