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Protesters in Ivory Coast set fire to a bus in Abidjan on Friday after deadly protests earlier in the week against the president's decision to seek a third term, and organisers elsewhere vowed further action against his bid to stand again.

The blaze, dubbed the Lake Fire, swelled to over 17,000 acres (6,880 hectares), forcing up to 1,500 people from their houses after erupting on Wednesday afternoon in the Angeles National Forest.

A woman has survived a great white shark attack on Australias east coast after her surfing companion repeatedly punched it until it let her go.

A former FBI lawyer will plead guilty to falsifying a document as part of a federal probe into the origins of an investigation into possible contacts between Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia, the former FBI official's lawyer said on Friday.

John Ross worries about his children returning to their classrooms this fall with coronavirus cases rising in Kentucky, but he feels he doesn't have much of a choice: His family's limited internet access makes it nearly impossible for the kids to keep up...

Alabama Gov. Kay Iveys chief of staff is quarantining at home after his wife tested positive for COVID19.

A 2yearold boy abducted in June in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas has been found and returned to his mother, officials said Friday.

Spanish authorities ordered the closure of nightclubs, banned drinking in outdoor public areas and smoking when keeping a safe distance from people is impossible, among other measures imposed on Friday to try to stem a coronavirus resurgence.

Angry Palestinians in Jerusalem accused the United Arab Emirates of collaborating with Israel and endangering AlAqsa mosque Islam's thirdholiest site as they gathered for Friday prayers the day after the Gulf state's deal with Israel.

COVID19 infections in England have levelled off after increasing in July, the Office for National Statistics' Infection Survey showed on Friday, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson resumes the easing of lockdown.

A Greek and a Turkish warship were involved in a minicollision on Wednesday during a standoff in the eastern Mediterranean, a Greek defence source said, describing it as an "accident".

The woman accosted Yasmeen Samir as she swam with her family at a pool in a resort on the North Coast, a stretch of Mediterranean beaches reserved for Egypts upper echelons. The reason: Samir was wearing a burkini, a swimsuit worn by conservative Muslims...

The findings of a public inquiry into how passengers infected with the coronavirus were allowed to disembark a cruise ship in Sydney in March, triggering a major outbreak of more than 600 cases and 20 deaths, are set to be handed down on Friday.

The Justice Department said that Yale had violated Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action by using race not as one of many factors in deciding which applicants to invite to the freshman class, but as a predominant or determining factor in admissions...

U.S. prosecutors said ensuring Ghislaine Maxwell's safety was a key reason she has been isolated from other inmates at the Brooklyn jail where she is being held on charges she facilitated late financier Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of underage girls.

A Mississippi man who submitted a proposal to place a giant mosquito on the new state flag, a design that went viral on social media, said he created it as a joke.