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As the U.S. marks the 100th anniversary of womens suffrage, many event organizers, mindful that the 19th Amendment originally benefited mostly white women, have been careful to present it as a commemoration, not a celebration.

The Namibian government is warning its citizens not to trust claims on social media that elephant dung can cure COVID19, as coronavirus infections rise more rapidly.

Each day, fishmongers in Congo Republic pile up hundreds of dead sharks on the shore and begin lopping off fins and bartering over hammerheads and other endangered species.

Countries putting their own interests ahead of others in trying to ensure supplies of a possible coronavirus vaccine are making the pandemic worse, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday.

South Korea tightened social distancing rules on Tuesday as it reported a threedigit increase in novel coronavirus cases for a fifth day and authorities scrambled to trace hundreds of members of a church congregation.

Lebanese President Michel Aoun dismissed as "impossible" the chance that a vast explosion in Beirut's port this month was caused by a blast from a deposit of Hezbollah arms, but said that all possibilities would be investigated.

Hurricane Genevieve, already a Category 2 storm, was expected to strengthen further into a major hurricane Tuesday off Mexico's coast but was not forecast to reach land.

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said last week that if Saudi Arabia did not convene a meeting on Kashmir, then Pakistan might call one involving Islamic.

Venezuela's rate of infection of COVID19 is set to overwhelm its testing capacity, likely leading to an artificial flattening of the contagion curve, a lawmaker and medical adviser to Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Monday.

President Donald Trumps plan to offer a stripped-down boost in unemployment benefits to millions of Americans amid the coronavirus outbreak has found little traction among the states, which would have to pay a quarter of the cost to deliver the maximum be...

VIRUS OUTBREAK-NURSING HOMES Chart. This digital embed shows the weekly number of confirmed COVID-19 cases found at U.S. nursing homes since May. This chart is current as of Aug. 17, 2020 and will not be updated. Source: American Health Care Association/N...

Sarah Showich, an 18yearold theater major, was looking forward to joining tens of thousands of other students on Monday for a first day of classes on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

A Georgia state trooper charged with murder said he feared for his life when he shot a driver who refused to pull over for a broken tail light, writing in an incident report that the motorist was revving his engine and turning his steering wheel as if try...

The partner of a demonstrator killed during the protests in Belarus said Monday she will push for an independent probe into his death.

France reported 493 new COVID19 infections over the past 24 hours on Monday, sharply down from a caseload of above 3,000 each on the two previous days, but hospitalisations for the respiratory disease rose for a third day in a row.

Ryanair, Europes largest airline, plans to cut capacity by 20% in September and October as a surge in COVID19 cases dents bookings.