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A spokesman says an “incident” has damaged an under-construction building near Iran’s Natanz nuclear site, but there was no damage to its centrifuge facility

South Africa is three months into a ban on the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products, an unusual tactic employed by a government to protect the health of its citizens during the coronavirus pandemic

Myanmar's government says a landslide at a jade mine in the country’s north has killed 50 people, though a local lawmaker says the toll was almost twice as high

Iran nuclear spokesman: 'Incident' damages under-construction building near nuclear site; centrifuge facility undamaged

Myanmar government says landslide at a jade mine in country's north has killed 50 people

Sudan's transitional government is preparing to outlaw female genital mutilation

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says his government is considering an offer of safe haven to Hong Kong residents threatened by China’s move to impose a tough national security law on the semi-autonomous territory

Mexican authorities say gunmen burst into an unregistered drug rehabilitation center in central Mexico and opened fire, killing 24 people and wounding seven

Two healthy pots of coriander and two of spinach are enough to provide a sense of achievement for Theyiesinuo Keditsu, a young English professor and mother of four. Keditsu, who claims she has the “thumb of death,” planted the seeds and was amazed at how they grew. The indigenous Naga people in India’s northeast, once virtually cut off from the rest of the country because of an insurgent movement seeking independence, were reminded of their vulnerabilities during coronavirus lockdown. “It scared the hell out of me, the idea that I may not have veggies to feed my kids,” Keditsu, 39, said. Nagas are traditional farmers. But as concrete covers land that was once tilled, lifestyles have changed. Kohima, the semi-urban capital of the northeastern state of Nagaland, relies on satellite villages for green vegetables. But supply lines were cut during India’s 10-week nationwide lockdown that eased in early June, inspiring residents to grow their own. Achano Yhome has always loved...

An endangered Javan rhinoceros is seen enjoying a mud bath on surveillance camera inside Indonesia's Ujong Kulon National Park.

A television reporter and a cameraman have been shot to death in La Ceiba, a town on Honduras’ northern Caribbean coast that has been wracked by gang violence in the past

Mexican authorities say gunmen burst into a drug rehab center and opened fire, killing 24 people and wounding seven

Mexico City's reopening is varying widely, with some people wearing face masks and keeping their distance, while others jostle in crowded streets

ABC News’ Britt Clennett reports on the hundreds arrested as China tightens its grip on Hong Kong.

Political leaders around the world have decried Beijing’s move to impose a tough national security law on Hong Kong that allows mainland Chinese authorities to crack down on subversive activity and protest in the semi-autonomous territory

Media tycoon Jimmy Lai says Hong Kong is now “dead” under the new national security law imposed by China

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has celebrated the second anniversary of his July 1, 2018 election victory amid some of he toughest circumstances in modern Mexican history

Venezuelan officials are calling for congressional elections to be held on the first Sunday in December

The weeklong vote went ahead despite Russia's continuing coronavirus epidemic.

The U.K. government says it is extending residency rights and a route to citizenship to up to 3 million Hong Kongers who are eligible for a special category of British passport by virtue of Hong Kong's status as a former British colony

Mexican soldiers have seized almost $2.7 million in cash stuffed into suitcases in the back of an SUV entering Mexico from the United States

The Netherlands has marked the country’s 1863 abolition of slavery with a solemn event in Amsterdam that also reflected on how the Black Lives Matter movement is sweeping the globe in the aftermath of George Floyd's death in the United States

Mexico is celebrating the implementation of a new free trade agreement with Canada and the United States that it hopes will lead to more investment in its struggling economy

Russian election officials say voters have approved amendments to the country's constitution that will allow President Vladimir Putin to stay in power until 2036

A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances has approved a new budget that largely suspends austerity measures and government cuts for one year as the U.S. territory struggles to recover from hurricanes, earthquakes and the pandemic

Israel’s parliament has approved a law granting the country’s internal security agency limited authority to use phone surveillance to track coronavirus cases

Authorities in New York seized about $800,000 worth imported goods from China.

Lawmakers in the small Balkan country of Montenegro have approved same-sex partnership as part of efforts to push on with joining the European Union

British regulators want new rules to foster competition in digital advertising markets and rein in the industry’s dominant players, Google and Facebook

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Police say at least 11 people were detained  in Turkey for social media postings that allegedly insulted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s daughter and son-in-law after they announced the birth of their fourth child on Twitter

A senior Indian army official says Indian and Chinese military commanders have met for a third time in an attempt to ease a monthlong face-off over disputed territory

A cyclone has hit the southern region of Brazil, killing nine people

Pressure is mounting to disband a special police unit in one of France’s poorest regions

Russian election officials say amendments allowing Vladimir Putin two more terms receive overwhelming approval

The horse had traveled over a mile out into the Atlantic Ocean from a beach in Donegal, Ireland.

COVID-19 has made its way to Timbuktu, whose name has long been synonymous with the ends of the Earth

Zimbabwe has reopened its national parks to the public and allowed restaurants to serve food within their premises, some relief for the country’s hospitality sector struggling from restrictions to combat the new coronavirus

Danish authorities say the motive behind the slaying of a biracial man on a Baltic Sea island was a personal relationship gone wrong rather than a racially motivated killing

Mexico’s health system has so far not been overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic, mostly because the country chose early on to invest in expanding hospital beds

Burundi’s new president has signaled that his government will take the coronavirus pandemic more seriously than his dead predecessor, calling the virus the country’s “worst enemy” and announcing new screenings

The law was brought in by the Chinese government, sparking fears of a crackdown.

The Rev. Georg Ratzinger, the older brother of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, who earned renown in his own right as a director of an acclaimed German boys’ choir, has died at age 96

Myanmar's election commission says it will hold elections on November 8 for the national, regional and state parliaments

France is suspending its involvement in a NATO naval operation in the Mediterranean after a standoff with a Turkish ship and amid growing tensions within the military alliance over Libya

Egypt’s highest court has upheld a death sentence for a former monk convicted of killing an abbot in a desert monastery north of Cairo in 2018

Germany’s defense minister has disbanded a company of special forces, saying a culture of right-wing extremism had been allowed to develop in it behind a “wall of secrecy.”

Companies linked to hospitality and travel in Britain are shedding thousands of jobs as the longer term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic take hold, choosing to slim down for survival rather than await potential government handouts

A German court on Wednesday rejected demands for higher compensation from Lufthansa by eight people who lost loved ones in the deliberate crash of a plane operated by its budget airline Germanwings five years ago

The leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran have discussed efforts to stabilize Syria in a video call, noting the need to promote a political dialogue