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WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told Republican senators during a two-hour meeting Monday night he's unwilling to settle on an insufficient coronavirus aid package after they pitched their slimmed do...

WASHINGTON - Former President Donald Trump announced a new impeachment legal defence team just one day after it was revealed that he had parted ways with an earlier set of attorneys with just over a w...

KABUL - Taliban attacks in the Afghan capital of Kabul are on the rise, with increasing targeted killings of government officials, civil-society leaders and journalists, a report by a U.S. watchdog sa...

During one of the most politically divisive years in recent memory, the number of active hate groups in the U.S. actually declined as far-right extremists migrated further to online networks, a move t...

CANBERRA, Australia - Australian media companies admitted in court Monday they breached a gag order in publishing references to Cardinal George Pell's since-overturned convictions in 2018 for child se...

BERLIN - Beer sales in Germany were down 5.5% last year, dragged lower by lengthy closures of bars and restaurants in the coronavirus pandemic, official data showed Monday. German-based breweries and ...

PARIS - French lawmakers debated a bill on Monday they hope will uproot radical Islam in the country, beliefs that authorities maintain are creeping into public services, associations, some schools an...

NEW DELHI - India's government has proposed to increase spending on health care in a $477 billion budget for 2021-22 that promises extra help for weathering the coronavirus pandemic. India is in its w...

BEIJING - An official from China's far west Xinjiang region accused former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday of trying to undermine Beijing's relations with new President Joe Biden by decl...

CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's prime minister said on Monday that Microsoft is confident it can fill the void if Google carries out its threat to remove its search engine from Australia. A Google e...