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The hawkish Netanyahu, who served as Israel's leader for 12 straight years following an earlier three-year term, stayed in office longer than any other prime minister in Israel's history. 

When medical staff tested for the presence of any variants of concern they found that she was carrying both the Alpha strain, which originated in Britain, and the Beta variant first detected in South Africa.

An exotic cat that was roaming parts of Atlanta has been captured, but the owner is being forced to give up her pet because it's illegal to keep such cats as pets in Georgia.

Caitlyn Jenner held her first news conference Friday as a Republican candidate for California governor, 77 days after announcing she was entering a recall election that could remove firstterm Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Allegations of racial discrimination in the Tulane University School of Medicine's Graduate Medical Education program have prompted an accrediting organization to put the school on probation.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday asked people and businesses in the nation's most populous state to voluntarily cut how much water they use by 15% as the Western United States weathers a drought that is rapidly emptying reservoirs relied on for ag...

China has been calling the mass detention camps where Uyghur and other ethnic minorities are transferred as “vocational education and training centers”.

A council member using a saw cut into a 115yearold Confederate memorial at the center of historic Tuskegee on Wednesday but failed to topple it, marking the latest move in a push to remove the contentious monument from the nearly allBlack Alabama town.

Texas Republicans are backing off two contentious voting measures ahead of a second attempt to pass new election laws, after Democrats temporarily thwarted a restrictive bill in May by staging a dramatic walkout from the state Capitol.

Canada has been rocked by the disclosures of more than 1,000 unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools institutions that were part of an abusive system that the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission called "cultural genocide" in...

The An-26 was flying from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana in the Kamchatka Peninsula.

Moscow (AP) For most aficionados, a sparkling wine can be called champagne only if it comes from the region of France with that name and is made under certain regulations. A new Russian law makes the counter-claim that the word can be used only for Russia...

Under the practice, usually a temporary alliance, the wife waives some conventional marriage rights such as cohabitation and financial support.

Myanmar has been plunged into chaos by the February 1 coup against elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

The floods are a reminder of the natural disasters- including earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunami – that plague Japan, where the capital Tokyo is to host the summer Olympics starting this month.

Many of the passengers had recently graduated from basic military training and were being deployed to the restive island as part of a joint task force.