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Four board leaders of Texas' embattled power grid operator said Tuesday they will resign following outrage over more than 4 million customers losing power during a deadly winter freeze last week.

Poet, publisher and bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who helped launch and perpetuate the Beat movement, has died. He was 101.

North Macedonia's exsecret police chief on Tuesday handed himself over to authorities who were seeking him on an international arrest warrant after he disappeared before an expected court verdict on his alleged involvement in a massive wiretapping scandal...

Britain's Prince Philip was admitted to the King Edward VII's Hospital in central London last week and has spent seven nights there for treatment so far.

President Joe Biden's administration has reopened a tent facility to house up to 700 immigrant teenagers after they cross the U.S.Mexico border unaccompanied by a parent, a sign of growing worries about how children are treated in government custody.

Victims of a 2019 shooting at a Florida military base and their families are suing Saudi Arabia, claiming the kingdom knew the gunmen had been radicalized and that it could have prevented the killings.

As Texas was reeling from last week's historic freeze, the state's attorney general was in Utah for previously scheduled meetings, a spokesman said Monday.

The Supreme Court tried Monday to inject some mystery into its second consideration of a longrunning dispute between Georgia and Florida over water that flows from the Atlanta suburbs to the Gulf of Mexico.

With just under 29,000 cases and 909 deaths from the virus, Australia largely escaped the high number of infections and deaths compared with other developed countries, helped by border closures and speedy tracking systems.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Sunday he saw a window of opportunity for Iran and the United States on sanctions after recent statements, adding he wanted U.S. sanctions on Tehran to be lifted, the Turkish...

Two people were killed in Myanmar's second city Mandalay on Saturday when police and soldiers fired at protesters demonstrating against the overthrow of the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Taiwan's air force scrambled for a second straight day on Saturday after a dozen Chinese fighter aircraft and bombers carried out drills close to Taiwancontrolled islands in the disputed South China Sea, the defence ministry in Taipei said.

Yemens Houthi rebels killed a tribal leader and four of his immediate family in the rebelheld capital, tribal leaders said on Saturday.

American security contractor Erik Prince, a close ally of former U.S. President Donald Trump, violated the U.N. arms embargo against Libya along with three United Arab Emiratesbased companies and their top managers during an operation to help a rebel mili...

Russia has already approved two Covid-19 vaccines, including the Sputnik V shot, developed by Moscow's Gamaleya Institute, following a similar approach of granting approval before seeing any late-stage trial results.

An anti-coup protester who was shot in the head during a February 9 demonstration in Naypyidaw died on Friday.