The United States Wednesday hit back at a UN women's rights panel that said some US states limited access to abortions during the COVID-19 pandemic, rejecting its interference and the notion of "an assumed right to abortion." "The United States is disappointed by and categorically rejects...

Russian mass media reported that scientists of the Institute of physical Culture History of the Russian Academy of Sciences ended work with a three-dimensional model of the Syrian city of Palmyra, listed on UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites, claiming that this is “a prelude to the...

The novel coronavirus has claimed 1,271 more lives in Brazil and 650 in Mexico over the past 24 hours, according to health authorities Wednesday. In Brazil, the world’s second worst-hit country after the US, the death toll climbed to 116,580, while the number of cases surged to nearly...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will hold closed-door meetings Wednesday with Bahrain's royal family and top officials in the United Arab Emirates amid the Trump administration's push for Arab nations to recognize Israel. Pompeo already traveled to Israel and Sudan on this trip through...