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Hong Kong authorities arrested eight people Monday in connection with an unauthorized protest at a university campus last month, amid a widening crackdown on dissent in the semi-autonomous Chinese ter...

BRUSSELS - The European Union on Monday invited U.S. President-elect Joe Biden to help mend tattered trans-Atlantic ties and urged him to join it in a long-term "strategic dialogue" that would address...

CHICAGO - As Donald Trump's presidency winds down, his administration is ratcheting up the pace of federal executions despite a surge of coronavirus cases in prisons, announcing plans for five startin...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called for negotiations over energy exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean, days ahead of a European Union summit where leade...

BRUSSELS - More than four years after helping set Britain's course out of the European Union, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is headed to EU headquarters to try to finish the job. With less than a month...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Monday it was glad the United States "got the message" and modified its behaviour in the Persian Gulf, after the top U.S. Navy official in the region said his forces had reach...

BERLIN - Months of low rainfall have left Rhine short of water, forcing inland shippers on Germany's longest river to reduce their loads by half to avoid running aground. German news agency dpa on Mon...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Chinese vaccine company Sinovac announced Monday that it is planning to complete a new facility to double its annual vaccine production capacity to 600 million doses by the end of the...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has picked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be his health secretary, putting a defender of the Affordable Care Act in a leading role to oversee his ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Sunday his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for the coronavirus, making him the latest in Trump's inner circle to contract the disease that ...