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Britain has started returning illegal immigrants who tried to enter via small boats across the English Channel back to France and Germany -- after British officials pressed France in particular to do more to stop the surge in crossings.

Scientists argue the government is ignoring expert advice and forging ahead with initiatives to reopen the country's economy despite warnings that the virus is not under control. 

Three people have died and dozens more are injured -- including police officers -- after violent protests outside a police station in Bengaluru, India.

Somalia’s parliament is facing criticism Wednesday as it is weighing a controversial bill that would allow child marriage once a girl’s sexual organs mature and forced marriage as long as a family gives their consent. 

A prominent Iranian music advocate and creator was detained by police officials and charged with allegedly aiding women to sing and dance, he told Fox News.

An overweight Chinese man found his big belly to be a lifesaver — after it got wedged in a well and stopped him falling down, according to officials.

A surge of coronavirus cases in France has Prime Minister Jean Castex warning that the country has been going the “wrong way” for two weeks as he urged citizens to step up their efforts to curb the spread.

The U.K. economy has officially plummeted into recession after official figures announced Wednesday showed a stunning 20.4% drop in the second quarter of the year – the biggest drop since quarterly records began in 1955.

Dutch police have uncovered what they described as the biggest cocaine laboratory ever discovered in the Netherlands, leading to the arrest of 17 suspects from Colombia, Turkey and the Netherlands.

Health authorities in New Zealand were scrambling Wednesday to trace the source of a new outbreak of the coronavirus as the nation's largest city went back into lockdown.

Just before 10 a.m., police, several ambulances, an air ambulance and fire engines rushed to the railway line near Stonehaven, about 100 miles northeast of Edinburgh, where the train had derailed. 

An area of disturbed weather is expected to become the next tropical storm on Wednesday, potentially setting another record for a busy 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. 

French authorities have opened a homicide investigation after a corpse that had been decomposing for 30 years was found in the basement of a Parisian mansion during renovations.

As the United States draws down its troops from the conflict-beleaguered Afghanistan, cracks are emerging that neighboring Iran is entrenching itself into all sides – shoring up ties with formal government officials and ethnic minorities, as well as the Taliban and disgruntled new Taliban offshoots.

The head of the Russian fund which has declared full confidence in a coronavirus vaccine that President Vladimir Putin is so confident about he has injected one of his daughters with it.

Boxing’s world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and his dad were making the rounds in their United Kingdom hometown when they came across a group of volunteers pulling weeds along a public sidewalk – and then they pitched in.

The British immigration minister said Tuesday that the U.K. and France have agreed to a plan to stop a wave of illegal immigration that has seen hundreds of migrants making their way across the English Channel into Britain this month.

Lebanese security officials who were concerned about the massive stockpile of ammonium nitrate in Beirut’s port had sent a letter to the country’s prime minister and president two weeks before the blast warning that the material “could destroy” the capital city if it exploded, a report says. 

There is "growing frustration" among demonstrators clashing with security forces in Beirut one week after the deadly explosion that killed at least 171 people, injured thousands, and plunged Lebanon into political chaos, Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst reported on "America's Newsroom" Tuesday.

The second hurricane this season in the Central Pacific strengthened off Mexico's northwestern coast on Tuesday but isn't expected to directly threaten land.