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Nigeria will require civil servants to show proof of vaccination against COVID19 or a negative test for the disease to gain access to their offices from the beginning of December, a presidential committee said on Wednesday.

A Chilean businessman and cofounder of the largest casino resort operator in Latin America has reached an agreement to buy 10 acres (4 hectares) of Stripfront land that formerly housed the Riviera from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority for $...

Beirut, Oct 13 (AP) The United States does not support efforts to normalise relations with the government of President Bashar Assad or lift sanctions imposed on Damascus until there is progress in the political process in the war-torn country, the US secr...

A White House official said the administration would give the 'precise date very soon' -- both for the land crossings as well as international trips by plane, which he said would be timed to 'go together.'

England will be hit hard by floods like those that devastated Germany this summer if the country does not improve its defense against more extreme weather brought by climate change, a governmental agency said Wednesday.

A $2 billion project to build a rail link connecting New York City to LaGuardia Airport was officially put on hold Tuesday, after weeks of criticism from public officials and a lawsuit from neighborhood and environmental groups.

Puerto Ricos governor announced Tuesday that he would be lifting a curfew and a ban on alcohol sales as the U.S. territory reports a drop in the number of COVID19 hospitalizations and deaths.

Tens of thousands of worshippers braved the pandemic to make a pilgrimage to the vast Aparecida basilica in the interior of Sao Paulo state, some traveling on foot for days to reach Tuesday's celebration of the nations patron saint, Our Lady of Aparecida.

Wildlife officials in Colorado say an elusive elk that has been wandering the hills with a car tire around its neck for at least two years has finally been freed of the obstruction.

Dozens of drones floated through the skies of Tel Aviv on Monday, ferrying cartons of ice cream and sushi across the city in an experiment that officials hope provided a glimpse of the nottoodistant future.

Pennsylvania's highprofile attorney general, Josh Shapiro, will formally announce his candidacy for governor on Wednesday, entering the 2022 race months after making his intentions known and effectively clearing the field of potential rivals for the Democ...

The United Nations and the government of Bangladesh on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding to work together in aiding protection and management of Rohingya refugees on an island in the Bay of Bengal where thousands of them have been relocated fr...

Several thousand demonstrators gathered in central Tunis on Sunday to protest President Kas Saieds recent consolidation of power, which his critics have called a coup."

The recovered remains of a World War II pilot were buried in Maine on Saturday more than 70 years after his body was lost in Europes Adriatic Sea.

Jailed former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on a hunger strike, needs treatment in hospital as his condition is worsening, his personal doctor was quoted as saying by TASS news agency on Sunday.

A Colombian nun who was kidnapped in 2017 by Islamist militants in Mali has been freed, Mali's presidency said on Saturday.