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Florida's COVID19 hospitalizations and cases again jumped significantly this week as the vaccination rate in rural counties where some of the worst outbreaks are occurring remains well below the state and national averages.

A Tulsa attorney whom the American Bar Association rated as not qualified " to serve as a federal judge was tapped Friday by Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt to serve as the state's next attorney general.

A Northern California coastal town popular with tourists is running low on water after two years of little rainfall during a drought in the U.S. West, forcing residents and business owners to truck in water from elsewhere.

Colombia on Friday gave the green light for exports of dried cannabis for medical and other industries, as the Andean country took another step to develop its marijuana industry, where progress has been slow despite high potential.

Myanmar has appointed a new temporary head of its embassy in London, Britain's foreign ministry said on Friday, replacing the previous ambassador who was ousted after breaking ranks with the military government over its Feb. 1 coup.

A West Virginia man has been convicted of organizing a network of shoplifters, many of them addicted to drugs, to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in store merchandise that he then resold on the internet.

Mexicos electoral agency fined a state gubernatorial candidate $2.75 million, ruling that he got prohibited support from his influencer wifes social media posts.

A Delaware judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by conservative political commentator Candace Owens against USA Today and another media organization over factchecking coronavirus posts she made on Facebook.

One of the most horrifying scenes from the disaster occurred underground on Line 5 of the Zhengzhou subway.

Georgia's suspended insurance commissioner told jurors Wednesday that his trial is my last chance to persuade them and the wider world that federal investigators ignored the truth in a misguided rush to indict him. But with Jim Beck on the witness stand f...

Protesters angry about water shortages took to the streets of southwest Iran for a sixth night in a row on Tuesday, with mounting violence, while Tehran residents chanted antigovernment slogans, according to videos posted on social media on Wednesday and...

Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli went on trial for a second time Wednesday on charges that he tapped the phones of opponents and journalists.

Authorities in Belarus moved Wednesday to outlaw the country's leading journalists' association, part of a sweeping crackdown on independent media and civil society activists in the exSoviet nation.

Moody's said that Sri Lanka's low and declining foreign reserves adequacy, limited and narrowing set of external financing options for the government and the extremely large share of government revenue taken up by interest payments raises the risk of debt...

Erdogan and US President Joe Biden discussed the issue in their first face-to-face meeting on the margins of a NATO summit in June.

Peruvian rightwing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori admitted she was headed for defeat on Monday, but pledged to mobilize her supporters and lashed out against socialist rival Pedro Castillo as having won in an "illegitimate" manner.