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Saudi Arabia on Thursday shut down entertainment centers including cinemas and suspended dine-in services at restaurants, tightening coronavirus restrictions amid a spike in infections. The kingdom suspended "all events and…

The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled a 4 billion euro ($4.8 billion) plan to prevent, treat and research cancer in the EU as part of a bigger project for an…

The US Department of Justice dropped its lawsuit accusing Yale University of discriminating against Asian and white applicants in undergraduate admissions, as the debate over affirmative action in higher education…

Police officers who handcuffed and pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old girl in the US city of Rochester were suspended Monday at the mayor's request. "What happened Friday was simply horrible, and has…

Indonesia's air accident investigator has sent five components of a crashed Sriwijaya Air jet to the US and the UK for examination, including the autothrottle that controls engine power automatically,…

Row with pharma firms subsides as more doses pledged The European Union (EU) put on a brave face Monday, defending its troubled vaccination program and insisting that renewed pledges of…

Brazil's Congress on Monday elected two allies of President Jair Bolsonaro to head the Senate and lower house, an important victory for the far-right leader as he seeks to regalvanize…

Two people were killed as the Afghan capital was rocked Tuesday by a series of rush-hour car bombs, officials said, while a police vehicle was targeted in an attack north…

COVID-19 treatments and improved hospital care have reduced death rates in intensive care by more than a third since the early months of the pandemic, but this progress might be…