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An Australian theme park owner was fined 3.6 million Australian dollars ($2.5 million) on Monday for safety breaches that led to the deaths of four people on a river rapids ride in 2016.

The number of tests coming back positive for COVID19 is topping 25% in several states in the U.S. Midwest as cases and hospitalizations also surge in the region, according to a Reuters analysis.

More than 100 people have been arrested on criminal and traffic offenses during an unauthorized car rally in a Maryland city, where confrontations between participants and police were captured on videos.

Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected on Sunday a rightwing party's attempt to scrap a pact allowing the free movement of people from the European Union, opting for stability amid the economic uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Veteran broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough has given Britains Prince George a giant shark tooth fossil after a private viewing of his new documentary at Kensington Palace.

Law enforcement declared an unlawful assembly late Saturday, forcing protesters from downtown Portland, Oregon, and making several arrests, just hours after demonstrations earlier in the day ended without many reports of violence.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is poised to retain power at next month's election, a widely watched poll showed on Sunday, although it said a recent COVID19 outbreak has dented her support slightly.

Armenia said early on Sunday that neighbouring Azerbaijan had attacked civilian settlements in the NagornoKarabakh region and urged the population in the disputed region to seek refuge in shelters.

The Lebanese security forces killed at least two militants during a heavy exchange of fire on Saturday with an armed group in northeast Lebanon, close to the Syrian border, security sources said.

Around one thousand supporters of the rightwing Proud Boys group, some armed, rallied in Portland, Oregon on Saturday in a largely peaceful event that drew far fewer followers than had been forecast by organizers, police said.

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Greek police said Saturday they have seized 500,000 ecstasy pills and arrested three people.

In a momentous week, President Donald Trump painted a fantastical portrait of a coronavirus that affects virtually nobody among the young as he faced a grim U.S. milestone of 200,000 deaths and he asserted a constitutional basis that doesn't exist for rus...

Democrats in of the House of Representatives will introduce a bill next week to limit the tenure of U.S. Supreme Court justices to 18 years from current lifetime appointments, in a bid to reduce partisan warring over vacancies and preserve the court's leg...

South Korea said on Saturday it will ask North Korea to further investigate the shooting death of a South Korean official, as public and political outrage over the killing grew.

Shehroze Chaudhry is charged with a criminal code offense of perpetrating a hoax related to terrorist activity. He is to appear in court on Nov. 16.