The White House Tuesday said a potential deal on COVID-19 relief could come in "weeks," casting doubt on whether an accord could be struck with Congress before the November 3 election even as US cases of the disease have swelled.

White House says COVID-19 aid deal seen 'in coming weeks'

Iran on Tuesday said it would welcome a US return to the landmark 2015 nuclear deal after its November 3 election provided it "guarantees" not to pull out again.

Iran would hail US return to nuclear deal - with 'guarantees'

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is planning to spend around $15 million on television advertising in Texas and Ohio during the final week of the presidential campaign to help Democratic candidate Joe Biden defeat the incumbent president, Donald Trump.

Bloomberg planning to fund late $15 million push to help Biden in Ohio, Texas

People recovering from COVID-19 may suffer significant brain function impacts, with the worst cases of the infection linked to mental decline equivalent to the brain ageing by 10 years, researchers warned on Tuesday.

COVID's cognitive costs? Some patients' brains may age 10 years

A recent report has drawn attention to how Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people in the UK are more likely to suffer from obesity, heart disease and diabetes.

'Structural racism' killing minorities, UK report says

Hurricane Zeta, the 11th of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, has made landfall in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, bringing with it maximum sustained winds of 80 mph.

Hurricane Zeta makes landfall in Mexico; expected to hit US as Category 1 hurricane

Two crew members of a Greek minesweeper were slightly hurt Tuesday after it collided with a Portuguese container ship off Piraeus, the port next to Athens, the navy said.

Two hurt as Greek warship collides with freighter

An American citizen was kidnapped near the town of Birnin Konni in southern Niger in the early hours of Tuesday morning. According to a Reuters report, the details of the kidnapping were not immediately clear, and no one had claimed responsibility on Tuesday morning.

US national kidnapped in southern Niger, sources say

Another Black man was killed in the US, sparking violent protests that police said injured 30 officers and led to dozens of arrests. Police on Monday shot and killed a 27-year-old Black man on a Philadelphia street after yelling at him to drop his knife.

Philadelphia police shooting of Black man sparks unrest

A young Hong Kong activist who was among the first arrested under Beijing's new national security law was detained on Tuesday close to the US consulate. Tony Chung was led away from a coffee shop opposite the consulate by unidentified men, the South China Morning Post reported.

Hong Kong teen activist arrested near US consulate

Chechnya's strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov on Tuesday compared French President Emmanuel Macron with a "terrorist." The head of Russia's Muslim-majority southern region, in a strongly-worded statement, condemned Macron for his defence of the murdered French schoolteacher who had shown his class cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

Chechen strongman calls Macron 'terrorist' provoking Muslims

Artificially sweetened beverages, a new study has found, are as bad for the heart as the sugar-laden kind. A study by the nutritional epidemiology research team at the Sorbonne Paris Nord University, in a statement, said: "Artificially sweetened beverages may not be a healthy substitute for sugar drinks, and these data provide additional arguments to fuel the current debate on taxes, labeling and regulation of sugary drinks and artificially sweetened beverages.

Artificially sweetened drinks linked to heart issues, study finds

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