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Sri Lanka's navy said on Saturday it was holding an abandoned supertanker off its east coast as it continued to work to put out a blaze on the ship.

Japan's coastguard has halted searching for missing crew members from a cattle ship that capsized in the East China Sea earlier this week due to bad weather from a typhoon, an official at the coastguard said on Saturday.

A toddler was killed while riding in a vehicle along a Louisiana road in a shooting that was condemned by the city's mayor.

El Salvador's attorney general on Friday said he plans to investigate allegations that the government of President Nayib Bukele is negotiating with members of a notorious gang to reduce homicides.

Jacob Blake, the 29yearold Black man whose shooting by a white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, reignited nationwide protests over racism and police brutality, pleaded not guilty on Friday to criminal charges filed prior to the shooting.

On the campaign trail with President Donald Trump, the pandemic is largely over, the economy is roaring back, and murderous mobs are infiltrating America's suburbs.

Three men have been charged with homicide in the shooting death of an infant who was struck by a stray bullet that went into his family's apartment during a shootout on a Pittsburgh street, authorities announced Friday.

Two men clearing debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura have died from heatrelated illness, Louisiana's health department said Friday.

The United States on Friday blacklisted four individuals for what it said was their help for the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to prevent free and fair parliamentary elections in Venezuela in December, the Treasury said.

NATO allies agreed on Friday that Russia must cooperate fully with an impartial investigation to be led by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons into the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the alliance's chief said.

According to several reports, the plane crashed after intruding into the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea.

President Donald Trump has urged Iran not to execute a popular wrestler who authorities say killed a man during 2018 antigovernment rallies.

Hungary needs to kickstart its economy while finetuning rules to prepare for a second wave of the pandemic, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday.

Each day in Jakarta at 9 a.m. sharp, local government official Ricky Mulyana and three colleagues don full personal protective equipment, hoist a wooden coffin onto their shoulders, and set out on a 'funeral' procession down busy city streets.

An Australian state reported a record 59 deaths on Friday, the highest ever daily total for the country, including previously unrecorded fatalities in aged care homes over the past several weeks.

An Atlantic City community activist who had planned to lead protesters Friday in painting Black Lives Matter on the seaside gambling resort's history Boardwalk says they no longer plan to do so.