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The government has ordered a strict week-long nationwide lockdown in a bid to halt the spread of Covid-19, but Khulna's hospitals cannot cope. Neither can relatives of the dead.

Spain suffered more penalty jitters but squeezed past Switzerland 31 in an errorstrewn shootout to reach the Euro 2020 semifinals on Friday after their battling opponents clung to a 11 draw despite going down to ten men.

The historic resort where Elvis Presleys character got married in the 1961 film Blue Hawaii" will go up for auction at a foreclosure sale on Kauai this month.

Hundreds of firefighters worked Thursday in high heat to beat back wildfires in the forests of far Northern California, where the flames have forced many communities to evacuate.

Israeli soldiers held an Associated Press photographer against his will during clashes in the occupied West Bank earlier this week, in a spot where Palestinian protesters were hurling stones and the troops were firing tear gas and rubbercoated bullets.

Two public workers repairing a sewer main in South Carolina were shot by a man who also fired on a deputy Thursday, authorities said.

A woman accused of running over and killing a police officer in Arkansas was facing multiple lowlevel theft and drug cases at the time and had a record of now showing up in court, authorities say.

A federal judge in South Dakota who charged three members of the U.S. Marshals Service with contempt of court over a COVID19 vaccination dispute removed himself from the case after assigning an instate attorney to prosecute the proceedings.

Donald Rumsfeld, the twotime defense secretary and onetime presidential candidate whose reputation as a skilled bureaucrat and visionary of a modern U.S. military was soiled by the long and costly Iraq war, has died, his family said in a statement release...

When was the last time Dubai was cooler than North America and Canada? A heat dome triggered by man-made causes has made that possible.

China becomes the 40th territory certified malaria-free by the Geneva-based WHO.

Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid ran away in the voting to win his second Hart Trophy as NHL MVP on Tuesday, much like he blew away the competition while leading the league in points.

The U.S. military appears just days away from completing its withdrawal from Afghanistan, well ahead of the Sept. 11 deadline set by President Joe Biden to end America's longest war, U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymi...

Officials in Arizona's largest county plan to stop using voting machines turned over to contractors hired by Republican state senators for a partisan audit of the 2020 election.

A judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss a criminal case against a former Florida Department of Health employeeturned whistleblower who raised questions about information being reported by the state on the coronavirus.

John Ascuaga, the son of Basque sheepherders who became a northern Nevada gambling icon after he bought a small coffee shop with a few slot machines in Sparks in 1960 and turned it into a major hotelcasino he operated for more than a half century, has die...