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The swift Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has news organizations simultaneously trying to cover the story, protect their journalists and families and help people who have done work for them over the past two decades.

The Pierce County Prosecuting Attorneys Office has concluded that the fatal shooting of Kevin Peterson Jr., a Black man killed by deputies in southwest Washington during an undercover drug investigation, was justified and lawful.

Western countries should provide aid to countries neighbouring Afghanistan to help them deal with an influx, she said.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's office said Pavithra Wanniarachchi's health portfolio had been given to Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella who is also the government spokesman.

Saudi Arabia said all staff were evacuated from the embassy in Kabul on Sunday due to the changing conditions on the ground.

The spokesman for the Taliban's political office on Sunday declared the war was over in Afghanistan and called for peaceful relations with the international community.

As the insurgents swept through the north in a surprise offensive targeting Afghanistan's anti-Taliban bastion, President Ashraf Ghani called for a national mobilisation of militia forces.

The U.S. deputy national security adviser met Tunisia's president on Friday and discussed the urgent need to appoint a prime minister designate to form a capable government, the White House said.

A rural Mississippi community is overwhelmed with COVID19 cases, two weeks after hosting the Neshoba County Fair that drew thousands who lived in cabins, attended shouldertoshoulder outdoor concerts and listened to stump speeches including one by the Rep...

The upcoming 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks as well as approaching religious holidays could inspire extremist attacks, the Department of Homeland Security said in a terrorism alert issued Friday.

New Mexico authorities are investigating a shooting that injured one person at a middle school near downtown Albuquerque.

On Thursday, hundreds of thousands of residents of Nagasaki and other parts of Kyushu island in southwest Japan were asked to evacuate to avoid floods and the risk of landslides caused by torrential rain.

Sydney looks set to further tighten lockdown rules on Friday as daily COVID19 cases hover near record highs despite a nearly sevenweek lockdown, while Victoria state reported a slight easing in infections.

Parents of schoolchildren joined the Oklahoma State Medical Association on Thursday in filing a lawsuit seeking to overturn a state law banning mask requirements in public schools.

The bodies of six men were found hanging off a bridge in the city of Zacatecas in northcentral Mexico on Thursday, an official said, in a region where some of the country's biggest drug cartels are fighting over lucrative trafficking routes.

Belarusian authorities have detained over 20 people in the latest wave of arrests, continuing their sweeping crackdown on dissent a year after a disputed presidential election, human rights activists said Thursday.