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The Trump administration will let some leaking or otherwise dangerous coal ash storage ponds stay in operation for years more and some unlined ponds to stay open indefinitely under a rule change announced Friday.

The attacker was severely injured after being shot by police in a neighbouring town, sources close to the investigations said.

Israeli plans to advance the building of thousands of settlement units in the occupied West Bank drew European condemnation on Friday as approvals for constructions hit a record high in 2020.

Jailed Philippine activist Reina Mae Nasino wanted to hold her threemonthold daughter for the last time before she was laid to rest on Friday but she could not.

Three men died and one man was injured in an early Friday shooting sparked by a confrontation at a Florida warehouse used by a motorcycle club, officials said.

The overwhelming majority of voters believe the nation is deeply divided over its most important values, and many have doubts about the health of the democracy itself. And supporters of President Donald Trump and Joe Biden alike think the opposing candida...

The Trump White House has installed two political operatives at the nations top public health agency to try to control the information it releases about the coronavirus pandemic as the administration seeks to paint a positive outlook, sometimes at odds wi...

Stoked by high winds, a wildfire burning for two months in northern Colorado exploded in size this week to surpass 167,000 acres, making it the largest blaze in state history, officials said on Thursday.

After losing her job in Honduras, Gabriela Alvarado has spent the last six weeks crisscrossing towards the U.S. border, part of a small but growing movement of Central Americans heading north after the coronavirus ravaged the already poor region.

Kurdishled authorities released on Thursday hundreds of militants from the Islamic State group imprisoned in northern Syria, as part of a general amnesty in the region controlled by the U.S.backed fighters.

Libyan security forces said they have arrested one of the countrys most wanted human traffickers in the capital, Tripoli, more than two years after the United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions against him.

The modelling study, published in the journal Nano Letters, also noted that the currently followed physical distancing guidelines are inadequate in curbing the transmission of COVID-19.

Prabowo, a former special forces commander, has long been a controversial figure in Indonesia, accused of involvement with military crimes in places like East Timor.

New Zealand is holding a general election on Saturday, and opinion polls indicate Jacinda Ardern is on track to win a second term as prime minister. Her popularity soared this year after she led an effort to stamp out the coronavirus. New Zealanders will...

The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID19, the illness caused by the virus.

South Korea has reported 110 new cases of the coronavirus, half of them linked to a hospital in Busan.