Russia's ruling party will get 324 of the 450 seats in the next national parliament, election authorities announced Tuesday, which is less than United Russia won in the previous election but still an overwhelming majority.
Images of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback grabbing asylum seekers near the U.S.-Mexico border are "heinous," according to U.S. Democratic Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman.
The Taliban have asked to address world leaders at the United Nations in New York this week and nominated their Doha-based spokesperson Suhail Shaheen as Afghanistan's UN ambassador, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
Gabby Petito was killed by another person, a coroner concluded, while also confirming that the human remains found recently at a Wyoming national park were those of the 22-year-old woman who disappeared months after she set out on a cross-country road trip with her boyfriend, the FBI said Tuesday.
COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have climbed to an average of more than 1,900 a day for the first time since early March, with experts saying the virus is preying largely on a distinct group: 71 million unvaccinated Americans.
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today, congratulating the re-elected Liberal leader on his party's win in Monday night's federal election.
Hundreds demonstrated in locked-down Melbourne on Tuesday after authorities shut down construction sites in the city for two weeks, saying the frequent movement of workers was spreading the coronavirus into regional areas.
President Joe Biden used his first address before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to declare that the world stands and at an "inflection point in history" and must move quickly and co-operatively to address the festering issues of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and human rights abuse.
The Taliban expanded their interim cabinet by naming more ministers and deputies on Tuesday, but failed to appoint any women, despite the international outcry that followed their initial presentation of an all-male government earlier this month.
Several small earthquakes shook the Spanish island of La Palma off northwest Africa in the early hours of Tuesday, keeping nerves on edge as rivers of lava continued to flow toward the sea and a new vent blew open on the mountainside.
The European Commission said on Tuesday it would make sense for the United States to allow travel by people vaccinated with the AstraZeneca shot in Europe.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Russia was responsible for the 2006 killing of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who died an agonizing death after he was poisoned in London with Polonium 210, a rare radioactive isotope.
