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With the 2021 fiscal year drawing to a close at the end of September, the White House earlier proposed a stopgap measure to fund the government to avoid the shut-down of federal government as lawmakers tussle over a $1 trillion infrastructure bill and a D...

Senior Democrats said on Sunday that they will likely need to scale back President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion social spending bill while passage of the linked bipartisan infrastructure bill may slip past a Sept. 27 deadline....

SEATTLE (AP) — Utility crews worked Sunday to restore power to thousands of customers in northwest Washington state after weekend storms downed trees and left large areas with no electricity.Puget ......

Nigeria's Buhari Orders Incorporation of State-Owned Oil Firm...

Divers Bartolomeo Bove and his friend Juca Ygarape saw a giant anaconda while exploring the bottom of the Formosa River in Brazil....

Construction of the mammoth Russian-West European energy infrastructure project wrapped up earlier this month, with gas supplies expected to begin flowing in the coming months. The end of construction comes amid record-high gas prices in Europe, with Mosc...

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - UK Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss is on her way to the United States in what will become her first overseas visit in the new professional capacity, the Foreign Office said on Sunday....

PARIS, Sept 19 (KUNA) -- France on Sunday said US President Joe Biden has requested to speak with President Emmanuel Macron over the phone, in the wake of Paris losing a multi-billion dollar submarine deal with Australia in favor of one with Washington an...

SANA'A, Sept. 19 (Saba) President of the Supreme Political Council Mahdi Al-Mashat visited on Sunday the first conference for developing the public finance, organized by the Ministry of Finance in the capital Sana'a within the framework of the nat...

NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Rock on Sunday said he has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and sent a message to anyone still on the fence: "Get vaccinated." The 56-year-old comedian wrote on Twitter: "Hey guys......

Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 19 (PTI) Kerala on Sunday reported 19,653 fresh COVID-19 cases and 152 deaths, which took the caseload to 45,08,493 and fatalities to 23,591 till date. The number of people who recovered from the infection since Saturday was 26,711...

The United Arab Emirates' economy minister will lead a high-level delegation to Britain this week, the ministry said on Sunday, as the Gulf state seeks to deepen trade ties....

TEHRAN, Sep. 19 (MNA) Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi called on all ministries to identify potentialities for cooperation with Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) after Iran received full membership in the international agreement....

CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — Three of the four men who suffered serious burn injuries in an explosion at a Chandler printing shop last month are out of the hospital now.A fundraiser was held Saturday for......

Bahamas' Opposition Party Wins 32 out of 39 Parliamentary Seats...

The government has lost the trust of the citizens, main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance......

KUWAIT, Sept 19 (KUNA) -- Kuwait has left a strong imprint on global humanitarian efforts, benefiting and helping millions of refugees worldwide, said a UN official Sunday. In a statement to KUNA after meeting with Secretary General of Kuwait Red Crescent...

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Jammu, Sep 19 (PTI) Three alleged drug peddlers including two women were arrested along with over 2.5 kgs of ganja' and 21.5 kgs poppy straw at different places in Reasi and Udhampur districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Sunday. Rekha Devi an...

Singapore's health ministry reported 1,012 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, the highest since April last year....

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An interactive exhibit in Mississippi prompts visitors to speak aloud the names of people who were killed in acts of racist violence in the United States during the civil righ......

British business minister Kwasi Kwarteng said on Sunday that the head of energy regulator Ofgem had assured him of the plans in place to protect the market and consumers from soaring gas prices....

MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — The tiny IndyCar team Sam Schmidt formed 20 years ago moved another step toward becoming an elite organization with a sponsorship extension by Arrow Electronics announced ah......

U.S. President Joe Biden will soon speak to French President Emmanuel Macron about a recent partnership with Britain and Australia that canceled a multibillion-dollar nuclear submarine deal between France and Australia....

Ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government came to power in 2014, sectarian hatred has loomed large in public discourse throughout India. Opposition parties have accused Modi and his party, the BJP, of inciting social tensions in the nation,...

Damascus, SANA- President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday issued an order to allocate a financial grant that includes all wounded of the military operations from the army, the internal security forces and the Popular Defense Forces who have a disability rate be...

Chandigarh, Sep 19 (PTI) The Congress announced on Sunday that Charanjit Singh Channi has been elected as the leader of the Punjab Congress Legislative Party (CLP), paving the way for his appointment as the chief minister. The development comes a day afte...

Sweden's Kristoffer Broberg held on for a three-shot victory at the KLM Open on Sunday after shooting a level-par 72 in the final round at the Bernardus Golf Course in Cromvoirt, Netherlands....

Disney is ruling the domestic box office this weekend....

Bhubaneswar, Sept 19 (PTI) A 15-year-old boy went missing after falling into an open drain amid heavy rainfall in Bhubaneswar on Sunday afternoon, police said. Jyotirmaya Behera, a class 10 student, fell into the drain near Lane 7 in Shatabdi Nagar Bank C...

Tehran (ISNA) Iranian national men's volleyball team on Sunday gained a decisive victory against Japan, claiming the title at the Asian Men's Volleyball Championship 2021....

Brazil reported 935 COVID-19 deaths on Saturday and some 150,106 additional cases, according to data released by the nation's Health Ministry, an unusually large number due to what officials said was an adjustment in how case numbers are tabulated....

BUFFALO AT MIAMIBills: DE Boogie Basham; OL Tommy Doyle; DT Harrison Phillips; DE Efe Obada; LB Andre Smith.Dolphins: CB Elijah Campbell; WR Will Fuller; CB Noah Igbinoghene; OL Greg Little; TE Hun......

BERLIN (AP) — Florian Wirtz led 10-man Bayer Leverkusen to a 3-1 win at Stuttgart on Sunday, dealing American coach Pellegrino Matarazzo's team its third loss in five Bundesliga games this season.T......

English footballer Danny Hodgson is fighting for his life in a hospital in Perth, Australia, after a teenage boy unexpectedly attacked him at a local railway station....

CROMVOIRT, Netherlands (AP) — Kristoffer Broberg of Sweden shot a tense level-par 72 Sunday to finish at 23 under and win the Dutch Open for his second European Tour victory and first since beating......

New Delhi, Sep 19 (PTI) The national capital reported 28 COVID-19 cases and zero daily deaths due to the disease on Sunday, while the positivity rate stood at 0.04 per cent, according to data shared by the Health department here. Delhi has recorded only t...

PHOENIX (AP) — Health officials in Arizona on Sunday reported 2,457 new COVID-19 cases and 26 additional deaths.The latest numbers increased the state's totals to 1,066,803 cases and 19,513 known d......

TEHRAN, Sep. 19 (MNA) The chairman of Expediency Council Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani appointed Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr as the new secretary of the council on Sunday....

TEHRAN, Sep. 19 (MNA) The chairman of Expediency Council Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani appointed Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr as the new secretary of the council on Sunday....

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Two men were shot and killed on the North Carolina Central University campus while a college football game was being played nearby.Durham police said the shooting happened Satur......

U.S. private equity firm Advent International will buy a controlling stake in Indian consumer electronics brand Eureka Forbes for 44 billion rupees ($597 million), its parent Shapoorji Pallonji Group said on Sunday....

LONDON (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo began the comeback as Manchester United won 2-1 at West Ham thanks to Mark Noble missing a penalty in stoppage time for the hosts straight after being brought off th......

At least, the Americans, the White House, requested specific data on the matter that they promised to investigate, the Russian envoy added...

TEHRAN, Sep. 19 (MNA) Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei appointed Brigadier General Hamid Vahedi as the new commander of the Iranian Army Air Force....

WADSWORTH, Ohio (AP) — Federal authorities are investigating the second fatal crash of an amateur-built aircraft this month in the vicinity of a municipal airport in northeastern Ohio.Robert Taylor......

WASHINGTON -- The National Institutes of Health director says a government advisory panel's decision to limit Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots to Americans 65 and older as well as those at high risk o......

China will expand the use of its currency, the renminbi (RMB), in cross-border payments amid efforts to advance RMB internationalization, said a central bank report released on Saturday....