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Two soldiers who deserted from Myanmars army have testified on video that they were instructed by commanding officers to shoot all that you see and that you hear in villages where minority Rohingya lived, a human rights group said Tuesday.

New Hampshire voters cast their ballots on Tuesday in U.S. Senate and House of Representatives primaries that will test President Donald Trump's influence in the northeastern state that he narrowly lost to Hillary Clinton in 2016.

The Saudi trial into the killing of critic Jamal Khashoggi has lacked transparency and fallen short on assigning accountability for the crime, the U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday.

Police broke up scuffles between supporters of President Donald Trump and Black Lives Matter activists and arrested two people in Salem, Oregon, on Monday as protests in the region turn increasingly violent.

Iraq is reopening its land border crossings, restaurants, hotels, and bringing back sporting events without spectators, the prime minister said on Monday, three days after it recorded its highest daily increase in coronavirus infections.

The record was hit as the wildfire season still has roughly two months to go in the most populous US state and as thousands of firefighters were battling flames during a scorching heat wave.

A priest recently tapped by Pope Francis to be made a bishop for a Minnesota diocese has resigned after an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor surfaced before he could take up his post.

A few hundred Polish climate activists blocked traffic in downtown Warsaw Monday to spur the government into better protection of the environment.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is headed on Monday to the crucial electoral state of Pennsylvania, where he plans to mark the U.S. Labor Day holiday by speaking with union workers as the presidential campaign enters its homestretch.

More than 500 firefighters and four helicopters were battling the El Dorado blaze east of San Bernardino, which started Saturday morning.

Unidentified people detained Belarusian protest leader Maria Kolesnikova in central Minsk on Monday and drove her off in a minivan, the Belarusian Tut.By media outlet cited a witness as saying.

California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in five counties on Sunday due to wildfires.

Algeria's new constitution, due to be put to a referendum on Nov. 1, would meet demands by a protest movement that ousted veteran president Abdelaziz Bouteflika last year, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said on Sunday.

More than 200 U.N. staff members have been infected by COVID19 in Syria as the global body steps up its contingency plans to combat the fast spread of the pandemic in the country, medical workers and U.N. officials said.

Mainland China reported 12 new COVID19 cases for Sept. 6, up from 10 a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Monday.

President Tayyip Erdogan told European Council President Charles Michel on Sunday the EU's stance towards the East Mediterranean would be a test of its sincerity, calling on it to take an impartial stance in Turkey's row with Greece.