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Hong Kong: Over 50 opposition lawmakers and activists were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of violating the national security law, for their part in a...

Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had argued there is no risk of him absconding pending an appeal against a decision not to extradite him to the...

TOKYO: Japan on Tuesday confirmed a record 4,912 new daily infections, bringing the country's cumulative total to 253,437, not including those related to a...

A pastor who spent the past 15 years leading the Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, Raphael Warnock defeated Republican incumbent Kelly...

Leaders of the new Alphabet Workers Union went public Monday in a newspaper opinion piece, saying they wanted a workplace "without fear of abuse,...

New Delhi: Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, India has reported the emergence of bird flu since last week. The presence of the virus is confirmed in...

NEW YORK: A state laboratory has confirmed New York State's first case of the UK variant (B.1.1.7) of the virus that causes the COVID-19, Governor Andrew...

US President-elect Joe Biden sought to rouse support for Democrats during a rally Monday ahead of a Senate runoff in the hotly contestedsouthern US state of...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday announced a new lockdown for England's 56 million residents to combat a fast-spreading new variant of the...

Muscat: Saudi Arabia and Qatar have agreed to reopen airspace, land and sea borders, Oman TV said on Monday. More details to follow.