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Dwight Van Lierop was unimpressed by the opening nights of this week's Republican National Convention, where speaker after speaker extolled the record and character of President Donald Trump in terms that didn't always match reality. Then Burgess Owens sp...

Flower growers in Ecuador are trimming back their fields, cutting plants at the root and in some cases tossing out piles of colorful blooms entirely as the pandemic delivers a devastating blow to one of the nations biggest export industries.

A sniffer dog in Greece led coast guard officers to more than 100 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a truck bound for Italy, officials said Friday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday that global efforts to combat climate change were insufficient, and that she would accelerate the fight to combat it in coming years.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday the coronavirus pandemic was likely to worsen in coming months, and that life would not return to normal until a vaccine to combat it had been developed.

The Saudiled coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen said it intercepted and destroyed on Friday an explosivesladen drone launched by the Iranaligned group in the direction of Saudi Arabia, the staterun Saudi Press Agency reported.

The Lebanese presidency will convene consultations with parliamentary blocs on Monday to designate a new prime minister, the presidency said, after the government quit earlier this month following the catastrophic explosion at Beirut port.

Greek and Turkish warships are testing each others naval prowess while political leaders in Athens and Ankara probe each others resolve over a search for hydrocarbon reserves in east Mediterranean waters that each nation claims.

The South Korean government ramped up efforts to end a strike by thousands of the country's doctors on Friday, as Seoul took the unprecedented step of restricting eateries in the capital in a bid to blunt a surge in coronavirus cases.

Amid rising threats from China, Taiwanese President Tsai Ingwen on Friday said the selfgoverning island was determined to strengthen its defenses.

Japan's Shinzo Abe swept back for a rare second stint as prime minister in 2012 pledging to revive a stagnant economy, loosen the limits of a postWorld War Two pacifist constitution and restore traditional values.

Tens of thousands of people were expected to march in Washington, D.C. on Friday to denounce racism, protest police brutality and commemorate the anniversary of the march in 1963 where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr made his "I Have a Dream" sp...

"We are marshaling America's scientific genius to produce a vaccine in record time. We will have a safe and effective vaccine this year and together we will crush the virus,” Trump said, adding that three coronavirus vaccines will be ready for production...

The Republican National Convention's final night heard Black Lives Matter falsely accused of cocoordinating violent protests, and President Donald Trump's record distorted on multiple fronts.

The tusks of a stoutly built planteating mammal relative that inhabited Antarctica 250 million years ago are providing the oldestknown evidence that animals resorted to hibernationlike states to get through lean times such as polar winters.

Jakob van Zyl, an engineer who held crucial positions at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was involved in numerous space exploration missions over decades, has died. He was 63.