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Chile's president Sebastian Pinera on Friday insisted that truck drivers will not be allowed to block major highways while they strike to protest attacks on them in the country's restive Arauncania province.

Travis Maher, a 46yearold Texas firefighter, knew the drill on Monday when he was told to prepare for possible waterborne rescues and assess damages to homes caused by Hurricane Laura.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee is moving to hold Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in contempt after he has repeatedly rejected the committees subpoenas for records related to Ukraine that the department has turned over to the Republicanled Senate.

The state suspended the licenses of two Detroitarea paramedics after a woman who was declared dead was discovered alive at a funeral home, officials said Friday.

Britain's medical regulator will be able to grant temporary authorisation for any coronavirus vaccine that meets safety and quality standards but before it has received a full licence, under new plans set out on Friday.

Flooding from heavy rains in Niger has killed at least 45 people this week and forced more than 226,000 from their homes, officials in the West African nation said Friday.

Cigarette smuggling boomed in South Africa during its nearly fivemonth ban on legal sales as part of antiCOVID19 measures, and even though legal sales are once again permitted, many in the tobacco industry think the illegal trade will continue.

Antigovernment protesters tussled with police in the Thai capital on Friday as 15 of their movement leaders turned up at a police station to answer a summons linked to demonstrations denouncing the crackdown.

China reported nine new COVID19 cases in the mainland on Aug. 27, compared with eight a day earlier, the country's health authority said on Friday.

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday paved the way for a planned federal execution by tossing out a ruling that said the Justice Department's new lethal injection protocol violated drug safety laws.

The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a man on death row deserves a new trial in a 1992 killing because his conviction was based partially on a dentist's bitemark testimony that has been discredited.

A group of Brazilian lawmakers made a final push Thursday to try to convince President Jair Bolsonaro not to reduce tariffs on American ethanol, a major Trump administration request.

The laidback stretch of coast known as Louisiana's Cajun Riviera is nothing like its French namesake: Beachgoers are more likely to drink Bud Light than fine wine, and mobile homes and stilted houses take the place of luxury villas.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has called for multilateralism to be defended, warning Thursday during a visit to Norway that those principles are being challenged by unilateralist and bullying acts.

Five nonprofits, including three voter advocacy groups, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against President Donald Trump's social media executive order from May, arguing it hurts the rights of voters who receive information through social media about mailin vot...

A Maryland man sold unregistered and misbranded pesticides falsely advertised as a governmentapproved disinfectant for the coronavirus, investigators said.