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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The United States government paid for ambassador Scott Brown and his wife to fly domestically in New Zealand on a private jet so they could avoid going into quarantine at the border, documents show.

NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held his first phone conversation with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, and they agreed to work closely to further advance the Indo-U.S.

MEXICO CITY — The U.S. Justice Department is dropping its drug trafficking and money laundering case against former Mexican Defence Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos, Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday.

NEW YORK — After the coronavirus pandemic sidelined creators and led to a delayed start of the traditional fall television season, scripted shows are beginning to return to network schedules. Not all of them, not yet.

WASHINGTON — Acting Defence Secretary Christopher Miller said Tuesday the U.S.

NEW YORK — A rapper who said he was making a tribute to a legendary New York City hip-hop group was recorded shooting a flamethrower from the top of an occupied city bus in an unsanctioned stunt a transit agency spokesman called “absurd, dangerous an

BAGHDAD — Rockets struck Iraq's capital Tuesday with four landing inside the heavily fortified Green Zone, Iraq’s military said, killing a child and wounding at least five people, signalling an end to an informal truce announced by Iran-backed militi

PORTLAND, Ore. — An agreement announced Tuesday paves the way for the largest dam demolition in U.S.

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s parliament on Tuesday granted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government permission to deploy peacekeepers to Azerbaijan to monitor a cease-fire deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia that aims to end the conflict in the regio

NEW YORK — Now at Amazon.com: insulin and inhalers. The retail colossus opened an online pharmacy Tuesday that allows customers to order medication or prescription refills, and have them delivered to their front door in a couple of days.