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Several US colleges have confirmed cases of the monkeypox virus, raising concerns as students return to campus for the fall semester. With about 20,000 cases, the United States outbreak of monkeypox is the world's biggest. While global…

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday recommitted to taking the necessary steps to relocate a key U.S. base within Okinawa despite vocal opponent Denny Tamaki a day earlier winning a second term as governor of Japan's southernmost…

Torrential, unrelenting rains swept through Chicago on Sunday, flooding basements and alleys, closing grocery stores and restaurants, and leaving cars floating under viaducts on streets impassable with deep water. The extreme weather took…

The United States on Sunday marked the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, with President Biden expressing his resolve to continue to defend the country against terrorism following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last year. "And…

Senior Ukrainian officials stepped up intelligence sharing with their American counterparts over the summer as they began to plan the counteroffensive that allowed them to make dramatic gains in the north-east in recent days, a shift that…

The high cost of global travel right now is fueling Australia's worker shortage, the country's trade minister said, with the jobs market the tightest it's been in almost 50 years as the Covid-19 crisis eases. Pre-pandemic, foreign students…

Ministers from countries involved in a U.S.-led Indo-Pacific framework agreed Friday to start formal negotiations on building a rules-based economic order in the fast-growing region where China is expanding its clout. The 14 member states…

Governor Kathy Hochul of New York declared a state of emergency on Friday over the growing polio outbreak, in an effort to better equip health care providers with tools to curb the spread of the sometimes disabling virus before it takes…

Every one of the more than 825 F-35 fighter jets delivered so far contain a component made with a Chinese alloy that's prohibited by both US law and Pentagon regulations, according to the programme office that oversees the aircraft. The…

Fourteen member states of a U.S.-led Indo-Pacific economic initiative agreed Thursday to bolster regional supply chains, moving a step closer toward the launch of formal negotiations under the initiative, according to Japan's trade…