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Louisiana is letting men on death row get together regularly for recreation, talk, worship and to share at least one of their daily meals, settling a 2017 lawsuit alleging that solitary confinement in tiny cells was inhumane.

Virgin Galactic said Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration has cleared it to resume launches after an investigation into why its spaceship veered off course while descending during a July flight with founder Richard Branson aboard.

New Zealand politicians on Thursday passed a law that makes plotting a terrorist attack a crime, fixing a legal loophole that was exposed earlier this month by a violent knife attack.

An announcement that a body disposal site has been found in northern Mexico has angered the relatives of missing people, because authorities have offered so few details.

Russia is delaying the appointment of panels of independent experts to monitor violations of U.N. sanctions on South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic (CAR)and Mali, diplomats said on Wednesday, leaving their work in limbo.

The director of Ecuador's penitentiary system said on Wednesday that the death toll from a prison riot had risen to at least 30 and that authorities were still working to recover 10 bodies.

Key stakeholders in Pakistan considered various options to support the new Afghan administration through capacity building and technical expertise under crash programmes, the report said. PakistN

Although seismic activity is now low, the volcano continues to spew lava and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has warned there will be "some very long days ahead".

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said Tuesday that he will not decide whether to spare Julius Jones from a lethal injection until after Jones has a clemency hearing before the state Pardons and Parole Board.

It was a testy start to the second and final debate in Virginia's high-stakes governor's race between former Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Republican businessman Glenn Youngkin on Tuesday night.

A riot in a penitentiary in coastal city of Guayaquil killed 24 and injured 48 more Tuesday, Ecuadorian officials said.

Trying to ease a backlog in Mexicos asylum system and the resulting frustrations that drove thousands of applicants to head toward the U.S., Mexican officials opened a mammoth reception center outside a soccer stadium near the Guatemala border Tuesday.

A former juvenile court judge in Wisconsin pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to two counts of distributing child pornography.

France is preparing itself for a substantial conversation with Australia when the time comes after Canberra ditched a defence accord with Paris for a partnership with Britain and the United States, a French presidential official said on Tuesday.

The U.S. government said Tuesday that Croatia would soon join the countries whose people can visit without a visa in a sign of closer economic and security ties.

Jaishankar thanked President Obrador for receiving him and conveyed greetings of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.