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A soldier who has gone missing from Fort Hood in Central Texas has been involved in an open investigation of abusive sexual contact, officials said.

South Korea has added 397 new cases to its coronavirus caseload in a 10th day of tripledigit increases, as the speed of viral spread nears the levels last seen during the worst of the outbreak in spring.

Israel's military said on Saturday that one of its drones fell inside Lebanon during "operational activity" along the frontier, and the armed Lebanese group Hezbollah said it shot it down.

Canadas opposition Conservative Party is holding an entirely mailin ballot election for a new leader to carry it into the next general election. Results are to be announced on Sunday.

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara was formally nominated on Saturday by the ruling party to stand for a third term in October elections despite charges by the opposition that the run is unconstitutional.

Mediators from West Africa's regional bloc arrived in Mali on Saturday for talks aimed at reversing a coup that has been condemned abroad, but celebrated by many in a country battling an Islamist insurgency and simmering political unrest.

West Virginias secretary of state says rapper Kanye Wests bid to get on the ballot for president came up short on qualified signatures.

As more universities abandon plans to reopen and decide instead to keep classes online this fall, it's leading to conflict between students who say they deserve tuition discounts and college leaders who insist remote learning is worth the full cost.

After mothballing its old Confederatethemed state flag, Mississippi could choose a new one with a magnolia, a shield with wavy lines representing water, or an edgy representation of the Mississippi River snaking along the states western border.

Vandals have scrawled graffiti denying the Holocaust on a wall in the village that was the site of the France's biggest massacre of civilians by the Nazis during World War II.

An ambulance aircraft carrying gravely ill Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny landed at Berlin's Tegel airport on Saturday after he was evacuated from the Siberian city of Omsk and brought to Germany for treatment.

South Korea said tougher social distancing guidelines to curb the spread of coronavirus will be rolled out nationwide starting Sunday as it battles a new outbreak of the disease spreading from the capital, Seoul.

Drug developer Moderna Inc on Friday said it has so far enrolled 13,194 participants in the ongoing latestage 30,000volunteer U.S. trial testing its COVID19 vaccine candidate.

President Donald Trump spent the week of the Democratic National Convention forsaking what has historically been an incumbents greatest advantage: He's in the job his challenger wants.

The number two U.S. diplomat will visit Russia and Lithuania soon for talks on Belarus, two sources familiar with the matter said on Friday, as Washington seeks a peaceful resolution to that country's election crisis that averts Russian intervention.