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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5 has shaken Cyprus, frightening some people who fled from their homes

South Africa's president says Jackson Mthembu has died from the coronavirus, becoming the first cabinet minister to succumb to the disease

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is calling on the United States and Russia to extend a major nuclear arms agreement before it expires in less than two weeks

The European Central Bank has left its bond-purchase stimulus program unchanged as the 19-country eurozone endures a winter economic slowdown due to the pandemic

Europe’s top human rights court has found Russia responsible for a swathe of violations in Georgia’s breakaway regions after the 2008 Russia-Georgia war

Farmer leaders have rejected the Indian government’s offer to suspend contentious agricultural reform laws for 18 months and set up a committee to look into their concerns about the legislation

World leaders have breathed an audible sigh of relief that the United States under President Joe Biden is rejoining the global effort to curb climate change, a cause that his predecessor had shunned

Portugal’s government has ordered the closure of the country’s schools for two weeks amid a surge in COVID-19 infections

Britain has sparked a post-Brexit spat with the European Union by declining to grant the bloc’s first-ever ambassador to the country full diplomatic status

Prosecutors in Bermuda’ have charged former Premier Ewart Brown with 13 counts of corruption in an alleged multimillion-dollar scheme that spans at least a decade and involves a U.S.-based hospital