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Japans new prime minister said Saturday that hes determined to host the Tokyo Olympic Games next summer as proof that humanity has defeated the pandemic.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson inadvertently made public his anger with the White House hiring office when cameras captured writing on the back of a page he was consulting during a speech.

A police officer in North Carolina has been suspended for his handling of a traffic stop last year in which officers drew their weapons, broke car windows and that resulted in the driver of the vehicle suffering a broken elbow.

The African Court on Human and Peoples Rights said Friday that former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo should not be excluded from the list of candidates for the West African countrys Oct. 31 election.

According to Zheng, the commission proposed the emergency use of the vaccines in mid-June to protect people in high-risk occupations such as frontline health workers, border officials and overseas workers.

Two former leaders of a Massachusetts home for aging veterans where nearly 80 people sickened by the coronavirus died have been criminally charged for their handling of the outbreak, the state's attorney general said Friday.

Mexicos president called on politicians and angry farmers in northern Mexico Friday to allow the country to pay its water debt to the United States, noting he does not want Mexico to become an issue in the U.S. elections.

Some northern hemisphere countries are having trouble obtaining additional flu vaccines amid increased demand, but health workers and elderly should be prioritised in case of any shortages, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

A rat has for the first time won a British charity's top civilian award for animal bravery, receiving the honor for searching out unexploded landmines in Cambodia.

The party was going strong: traditional music blared, families cheered, throngs of revelers danced. Then, police burst in. Officers kicked out guests, slapped hefty fines even locked up the tuxedoed groom and singers.

China has repeatedly refused to disclose the number of detention sites and detainees in Xinjiang and elsewhere.

SANTA FE, N.M. -- Voters across New Mexico have submitted nearly 250,000 absentee ballot requests with especially strong demand among Democrats for alternatives to in-person voting amid the pandemic.

The United States said on Thursday it would provide more than $720 million (565.24 million pounds) in humanitarian assistance in response to the crisis in Syria, plus nearly $152 million (119.33 million pounds) for Africa's Sahel region and almost $108 mi...

A Maryland man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of a hate crime and others charges in the shooting of a Black man, authorities said.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans on Thursday repudiated President Donald Trump's refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, assuring American voters the lawmakers would accept the outcome of November's election...

Canada's government on Thursday proposed boosting a weekly payout for the jobless that would replace emergency COVID19 income support that ends this weekend, a move that looks set to help the ruling Liberals win a parliamentary confidence vote.