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Egyptians will cast their votes this week in Senate elections widely viewed as a formality, with the ballot dominated by a pro-government coalition and lacking substantial opposition.
The Guatemalan government on Friday said it has arranged for its officials to visit a notorious US migrant detention center to check on 14 detainees from Guatemala housed there.
Donald Trump is staking his reputation as a tough negotiator and slick dealmaker -- that has served him well throughout his life -- with his ultra-muscular, protectionist tariffs policy.
Floods and landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Wipha since last month have killed six people and affected more than 230,000 people across Thailand, disaster management officials said Saturday.
The Global Impact Champions Awards for Financial Health aim to accelerate this shift by spotlighting innovators who deliver ...
Up to a million young Catholic believers are expected Saturday for a night-time vigil led by Pope Leo XIV, the culmination of a week-long pilgrimage, a key event in the Jubilee holy year.
Negotiators will take another stab at reaching a global pact on plastic pollution at talks opening Tuesday in Geneva but they face deep divisions over how to tackle the health and ecological hazard.
A Hong Kong environmental group said it would disband on Friday, ending decades-long activism to protect the city's Victoria ...
South African police said Friday they have arrested some 1,000 undocumented migrants working in gold mines in the northeast of the country.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that further modified tariff rates with 69 trading partners, drawing criticism across the world.
Power and communication services have been restored in all disaster-affected administrative villages across Beijing following severe rainstorms, while search and rescue operations for the missing are ...
An international team of four astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docked Saturday with the orbiting International Space Station (ISS).