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The police officers involved in the arrest and asphyxiation death of Daniel Prude, a Black man, have been suspended after video of the March incident was released this week, the mayor of Rochester, New York said on Thursday.

Seventysix wealthy nations are now committed to joining a global COVID19 vaccine allocation plan coled by the World Health Organization (WHO) that aims to help buy and fairly distribute the shots.

A powerful roadside bomb targeted a military vehicle in northwestern Pakistan, a former Taliban stronghold, killing three soldiers, officials said. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which is raising fears the militants are regro...

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German police have found the bodies of five children in an apartment in the western town of Solingen, massselling newspaper Bild reported in its online edition on Thursday, citing the police.

The poisoning of any individual with a toxic nerve agent is considered use of a banned chemical weapon, the global chemical weapons agency OPCW said on Thursday, in a statement about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Actress Juliette Binoche and fellow French environmentalists received encouragement from Pope Francis at a private Vatican meeting Thursday where he told them people shouldn't lose hope even when the condition of the planet can appear catastrophic.

A Hong Kong court declared media tycoon and prodemocracy activist Jimmy Lai not guilty of criminal intimidation on Thursday, ending one several cases against him after his highprofile arrest last month under a new national security law.

Britain's health minister on Thursday said Australian former Prime Minister Tony Abbott would bring huge expertise to a role advising the British government on trade despite his suggestion that men might be better suited to authority than women.

With two months to go until Election Day, Trump is simultaneously promoting at least nine baseless conspiratorial tales -- about protests, about the coronavirus, about voting and about opponent Joe Biden -- while embracing believers in the QAnon conspirac...

Prejudice and discrimination against transgender people is common in Haiti, but at least one organization is providing a haven where they can feel welcome.

A Minnesota man who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota last month has died from COVID19, Minnesota health officials reported on Wednesday.

People in Senegal's capital, Dakar, are breathing a sigh of relief after officials removed from its port 3,050 tons of ammonium nitrate, the same substance at a slightly lesser volume that caused the explosion in Beirut last month that killed at least 190...

When Japanese military leaders climbed aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945, the battleship was packed with U.S. sailors eager to see the end of World War II.

President Donald Trump's reelection campaign and the Republican Party sued Montana on Wednesday over Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock's plan giving counties the choice to use all mail ballots this November.

Christopher Nolan only casts movie stars as his leading men. From Leonardo DiCaprio and Hugh Jackman to Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey, Nolans actors are larger-than-life, capital S stars.