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A multilateral meeting on the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly in New York bringing together European countries including France and the United States has been canceled due to scheduling issues, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.

Haiti has recorded its first outbreak of the fatal pig virus African swine fever in 37 years, the World Organisation for Animal Health said, fueling concerns about the disease's spread in the Americas.

The two biggest economies and largest carbon polluters in the world announced separate financial attacks on climate change Tuesday.

Police have detained a passenger who took hostage the driver of a bus on a southern German motorway on Tuesday, Focus Online reported the police as saying.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid rejected accusations that al Qaeda maintained a presence in Afghanistan.

The error came as the UK acknowledged it had left behind hundreds of Afghans eligible for relocation in the rushed evacuation following the Taliban takeover.

The American population in 1918 was less than a third of what it is now, meaning the flu deaths would be equivalent to some 2.2 million in today's terms.

Ministers from Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia will meet with Iran at the United Nations later this week to try to give fresh momentum to stalled talks over reviving a 2015 nuclear deal, France's foreign minister said on Monday.

Unvaccinated heads of state attending the United Nation General Assembly this week may have to settle for a piece of pizza on a sidewalk instead of fine dining at New York's restaurants.

A Michigan lawmaker told another lawmaker that he hoped her car explodes on the way in, according to text messages filed in court to support a request for a personal protection order.

A lawsuit alleges that Louisiana's largest electric utility used a bubble gum and super glue approach to maintenance and construction that left customers sweltering in the dark without adequate sewage treatment after Hurricane Ida.

European Union foreign ministers on Monday will discuss Australia's scrapping of a $40 billion submarine order with France, a move that prompted the European Council president to question U.S. loyalty.

Paula Badosa eased past Varvara Gracheva of Russia 62, 62 and into the second round of the Ostrava Open on Monday.

A federal judge on Monday tossed out several convictions against the Massachusetts mayor elected at just 23 years old who was found guilty by jurors of bilking investors and extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars from marijuana businesses.

The retired conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court justice leading a Republicanordered investigation into the 2020 presidential election released a video Monday threatening to subpoena election officials who don't comply and saying the intent was not to ove...

Syria's defence minister visited Jordan on Sunday to discuss stability on their mutual border, the first such meeting since the Syrian conflict erupted a decade ago, officials said.