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One member of an Indigenous community in Nicaragua was killed and three others were missing after assailants shot at them on Nicaraguas Caribbean coast, activists said Wednesday.

Soaring energy prices retreated and stocks on Wall Street rebounded on Wednesday after the top U.S. Senate Republican backed an extension of the U.S. debt ceiling and Russia calmed volatile natural gas markets in Europe.

The United States and China reached an agreement in principle for U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to hold a virtual meeting before the end of the year, a senior U.S. administration official said on Wednesday.

As of September 30, 2020, the US military maintained 3,750 active and inactive nuclear warheads, down by 55 from a year earlier and by 72 from the same date in 2017. 

In a reversal of Trump administration policy, the State Department on Tuesday disclosed the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile. It said this will aid global efforts to control the spread of such weapons.

A protester disrupted a Louis Vuitton fashion show in Paris on Tuesday by walking down the catwalk with a banner condemning the impact of excessive consumption on the environment.

The former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot a woman who called 911 to report a possible rape behind her home will be resentenced later this month on a lesser charge, after the Minnesota Supreme Court threw out his murder conviction.

A powerful Philadelphia labor leader kept a city council member on the union payroll in a noshow, $70,000ayear job so he would do his bidding at City Hall, federal prosecutors said Tuesday as a longawaited corruption trial began.

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U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema said Monday that activists who confronted her outside an Arizona State University classroom and filmed her inside a restroom were not engaging in legitimate protest.

A large group of heavily armed militants killed 14 Burkina Faso soldiers and injured seven others in a dawn attack in the north on Monday, the government said in a statement.

A theatre director whose play was reported to the Lebanese authorities for allegedly criticising the president was released without charge after questioning on Monday, his lawyer said, in a case that has fuelled worry about freedom of expression in Lebano...

Crews on Sunday deployed skimmers and floating barriers known as booms as they tried stop oil from a massive spill in Southern California from further fouling the beaches, wildlife and protected wetlands of the area.

Boko Haram insurgents have taken over multiple communities in Nigeria's northcentral Niger state, offering villagers money and incorporating them in their ranks to fight the government, a local government official and the state's information commission to...

Germany's centreleft Social Democrats (SPD) said on Sunday they were ready to move to threeway coalition talks with the Greens and Free Democrats (FDP), but the two smaller parties kept open the option of an alternative tieup with the conservatives.

Sudan is about to run out of essential medicine, fuel and wheat after political protests forced the closure of Port Sudan, the main port in the east of the country, the cabinet said on Sunday.