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Hawaii was poised to become the 49th state to recognize Juneteenth after the House and Senate on Tuesday passed legislation designating June 19 as a day to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States.

Two Spanish journalists and an Irish citizen were killed in an armed ambush on an antipoaching patrol near a nature reserve in eastern Burkina Faso, the Burkinabe and Spanish authorities said on Tuesday.

The U.S. State Department said on Monday the Moldovan parliament's vote to sack the head of the constitutional court was a "blatant attack on Moldova’s democratic norms and its constitutional order."

The man charged with fatally shooting an Iowa State Patrol sergeant earlier this month was later shot in the head and chest by other state troopers after he opened fire on them, a prosecutor said Monday.

The New York Times is retiring its OpEd page and inviting guests.

The commander of foreign forces in Afghanistan, U.S. Army General Scott Miller, on Sunday said an orderly withdrawal of foreign forces and the handing over of military bases and equipment to the Afghan forces had begun.

Libya's new interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh will postpone a visit to the country's east that had been planned for Monday to demonstrate his unity government's progress in ending years of division between warring factions.

At least two Venezuelans died when a vessel they were taking from eastern Delta Amacuro state to neighboring Trinidad and Tobago sank, the state's governor said, adding that seven people had been rescued in the incident.

Japan has already declared three emergencies over the coronavirus. The vaccine rollout has been slow, with barely 1 per cent of its population inoculated.

At least 23 people were killed and 44 injured in a fire on Saturday at a hospital in southeastern Baghdad that had been equipped to house COVID19 patients, medical sources at three nearby hospitals said.

A fire broke out in a Baghdad hospital dedicated to caring for coronavirus patients after oxygen cylinders reportedly exploded late Saturday, according to local reports.

As hundreds of military personnel took part in a frantic hunt for the KRI Nanggala 402

The U.S. government applauded those targets, part of a shift in tone by the far-right leader, although many environmentalists said they would not take the rhetoric seriously before seeing real progress.

Skipper Tom Slingsby and defending champion Team Australia won all three fleet races Friday on Bermudas Great Sound in an impressive performance on the first day of the second season of the SailGP global league.

The EMA assessment came as an EU official promised to have enough doses available to vaccinate 70 percent of European adults by the summer.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is withdrawing a Trumpera policy that would have allowed taxpayerfunded homeless shelters to deny access to transgender people.