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Tropical Storm Wilfred has formed in the eastern Atlantic, becoming the latest storm in an active hurricane season.

An Ohio judge has temporarily blocked the Republican secretary of states order limiting counties to one ballot drop box, and both the state and the Republican Party have appealed.

Thousands of Hasidic Jews, stuck at the Ukrainian border for days due to coronavirus restrictions, have turned back without reaching their destination, the grave of a revered rabbi, officials said Friday.

The Dutch government announced Friday it is holding Syria responsible under international law for gross human rights violations, in a process that could ultimately trigger a case at the United Nations highest court.

Sharif, 70, has been in London since November last year after the Lahore High Court granted him permission to go abroad for four weeks for treatment.

China has claimed Taiwan through its "one China" policy since the Chinese civil war forced the defeated Kuomintang, or Nationalists, to flee to the island in 1949, and has vowed to bring it under Beijing's rule, by force if necessary.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is pressing ahead with legislation on trade despite a warning from Brussels that it could wreck their future relationship and an acknowledgement by his government that it violates international law.

An improvised explosive device blew up outside an Englishlanguage institute in southern Iraq early Friday without causing any casualties, Iraqi police said in a statement, amid a recent uptick in attacks targeting the American presence in Iraq.

Israel will enter a second nationwide lockdown on Friday at the onset of the Jewish highholiday season, forcing residents to stay mostly at home amid a resurgence in new coronavirus cases.

Taiwan scrambled fighter jets on Friday as multiple Chinese aircraft buzzed the island, including crossing the sensitive midline of the Taiwan Strait, in an escalation of tensions the same day a senior U.S. official began meetings in Taipei.

The second highlevel U.S. envoy to visit Taiwan in two months began a day of closeddoor meetings Friday as China conducted military drills near the Taiwan Strait after threatening retaliation.

Japan said on Friday it will send a fiveperson team to Mauritius to investigate the grounding of a Japaneseowned ship off the country's coast that led to an environmental crisis.

China began combat drills near the Taiwan Strait on Friday, the same day a senior U.S. official began highlevel meetings in Taipei, as Beijing denounced tightening ties between Chineseclaimed Taiwan and the United States.

A twoday rally planned this weekend is jangling nerves in Bangkok, with apprehension about how far student demonstrators will go in pushing demands for reform of Thailands monarchy and how the authorities might react.

Newly elected Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will work to get his flagship new digital technology agency running by autumn 2021, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Friday, a sign the project is among the top priorities in his reform agenda.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Thursday bluntly contradicted President Donald Trump's suggestion that a coronavirus vaccine may be only weeks away, warning Americans they cannot trust the president's word.