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Spain's High Court sentenced a former army colonel from El Salvador on Friday to 133 years in prison for the murder of five Spanish Jesuit priests in 1989 during the Central American country's civil war.

A decision by the Trump administration earlier this year to move the flag honoring missing war veterans from a prominent position atop the White House to a less visible spot on the South Lawn has angered some veterans and lawmakers, who see it as disrespe...

Russia is not seeking to interfere in the electoral processes of other countries around the world, nor has it in the past, the Kremlin said on Friday, after Microsoft said hackers linked to Russia were among those trying to spy on U.S. political figures.

All occupants in the damaged buildings- which included shops and homes - were taken to safety and officials were investigating the cause of the blast, the local public security bureau said.

Beaten by the traffickers, they battled hunger and thirst as storms lashed their wooden vessel, and watched in horror as the corpses of scores who died were tossed overboard, according to survivor accounts.

The Taliban, who have refused to recognise President Ashraf Ghani's government, will push to reshape Afghanistan into an Islamic "emirate". Ghani's administration will seek to maintain the Western-backed status quo of a constitutional republic

Hungary will not impose blanket school closures to curb the spread of the coronavirus but will aim to protect the most vulnerable elderly as the main goal is to keep the economy going, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on state radio on Friday.

Seven people were killed in Colombian capital Bogota and satellite city Soacha overnight in protests against police brutality, sparked by a widelyshared video of a man being repeatedly shocked with a stun gun by police before later dying.

Thirty barechested women locked themselves to the railings outside Britain's Houses of Parliament on Thursday in an Extinction Rebellion protest to demand action against climate change.

The head of the World Health Organization urged countries on Thursday to contribute resources that can expedite products which may help stem the coronavirus pandemic.

A Reuters witness saw flames rising up in the devastated port area, although it was not immediately clear what caused the blaze.

A La Nina weather phenomenon has probably appeared, with a 70% chance of continuing through the northern hemisphere winter, Japan's weather bureau said on Thursday.

Chinese fighter jets approached Taiwan on Thursday for a second day in a row, the island's defence ministry said, urging China to stop "destroying regional peace" in a further ratcheting up of tension across the sensitive Taiwan Strait.

Bob Woodward, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, was shown the letters but was not permitted to make copies or take photos. He dictated the letters into his tape recorder.

Noted South African lawyer George Bizos, who defended Nelson Mandela in many of his trials during the antiapartheid struggle and helped win his release from prison, died on Wednesday at the age of 92.

New York City restaurants struggling to stay in business after months of closures imposed in the face of the coronavirus pandemic won a longawaited approval on Wednesday to resume limited indoor dining.