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The scandal involved the theft of over $4.5 billion from state investment fund 1MDB, and Low was allegedly central to moving and hiding some of the stolen funds.

A fire spread through a highrise apartment building in a South Korean port city early Friday, causing minor injuries to scores of people, officials said.

The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would for now continue to allow women to obtain an abortion pill by mail during the COVID19 pandemic.

A transgender woman was hospitalized Thursday after police said she was stabbed and violently beaten in the latest case involving a member of the U.S. territorys LGBTQ community.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's debate with Democratic challenger Kamala Harris attracted a bigger television audience than a similar preelection debate in 2016, according to early Nielsen ratings data released on Thursday.

British Airways' last two Boeing 747 planes at the airline's historic base of London's Heathrow Airport made their final flight Thursday, the fleet's retirement having been brought forward by the coronavirus pandemic.

A Florida high school principal who was fired last year after telling a students mother not everyone believes the Holocaust happened was rehired after a recommendation by an administrative law judge.

Coming just months after deadly clashes between Indian and Chinese troops on the disputed Himalayan border between the two Asian giants, the controversy has flared at a time when Indian sentiments toward China are filled with antipathy and suspicion.

Ali Hassan was only 15 when he left Pakistan to be smuggled to Europe, following the path of his older brother and many other young men from his home country dreaming of a better life.

Kyrgyzstan's parliament failed to gather a quorum in an overnight session, deputies said on Thursday, leaving a power vacuum in the Central Asian nation as rival groups sought to claim power after ousting the cabinet.

It had the ingredients of a President Donald Trump campaign speech: dangerous immigrants, attacks on Democratrun cities, even a mention of America First.

A light aircraft carrying almost half a tonne of cocaine crashed in central Mexico after a highspeed airborne chase with authorities, and two people aboard died, the defense ministry said on Wednesday.

Wisconsin will open a field hospital outside of Milwaukee to handle a surge in COVID19 cases that have overwhelmed hospitals across the state, Governor Tony Evers said on Wednesday.

Jacob Blake, the 29yearold Black man left paralyzed after he was shot in the back by a Kenosha police officer in August, was discharged from a Milwaukee hospital and is now undergoing treatment at an Illinois rehabilitation clinic.

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett served as a handmaid, the term then used for highranking female leaders in the People of Praise religious community, an old directory for the group's members shows .

The next inperson gathering of the World Economic Forum won't be in the Swiss town of Davos as usual.