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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country's weapons development is self defence in the face of hostile policies from the United States and a military buildup in South Korea that is destabilising the peninsula, state media said on Tuesday.

As Germany became the first country to qualify for the 2022 World Cup, its former under21 team coach was crying tears of joy after his first win in charge of Turkey.

A customs dispute at the U.S.Canada border is threatening America's supply of a key fish used for popular products such as fish sticks and fast food sandwiches.

The annual Columbus Day Parade returned to New York City on Monday after being canceled last year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Authorities have arrested a man suspected of gunning down a Georgia police officer during his first shift with the department.

A small plane crashed just after takeoff Friday afternoon from a suburban airport in a northeast suburb of Atlanta, killing all four people aboard, authorities said.

A New York prosecutor will seek an indictment in the coming weeks against millionaire real estate scion Robert Durst for the death of his former wife, Kathie Durst, who disappeared in 1982, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Fr...

President Joe Biden announced plans Friday to nominate George Tsunis, an influential Democratic fundraiser and hotelier, to be his envoy to Greece. Tsunis had a previous ambassadorial nomination fall apart.

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Friday temporarily suspended the law license of an attorney who was a college friend of Alex Murdaugh and has been sued over his work on the disputed estate of Murdaugh's housekeeper.

Texas on Friday asked a federal appeals court to swiftly reinstate the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., as some abortion clinics in the state resumed normal services for the first time since early September.

A U.S. delegation will meet with senior Taliban representatives in Doha on Saturday and Sunday in their first facetoface meeting at a senior level since Washington pulled its troops from Afghanistan and the hardline group took over the country, two senior...

An Australian doctors group warned that a toorapid easing of COVID19 restrictions in Sydney could put pressure on health systems and risk lives, as the country's biggest city prepares for an end to more than 100 days in lockdown.

Poland's highest court ruled on Thursday that parts of EU treaties are incompatible with the Polish constitution, challenging a key tenet of European integration in a sharp escalation of a dispute between Brussels and Warsaw.

The United States and other countries have cut off almost all aid to Afghanistan.

The husband of a slain social media star killed himself in a Florida home when authorities arrived to arrest him on charges in connection with the death of his wife last year in Texas, U.S. Marshals and police say.

Restoration of an island in Louisiana's fragile coastal area is proving wildly popular with the birds it was rebuilt for, their numbers exploding on the recently added land, authorities said Wednesday.