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A deputy at a jail in downtown Detroit was beaten to death by an inmate while checking to make sure cell doors were closed, authorities said.

On the campaign trail two years ago, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador pledged to meet Mexico's commitments on combating global warming and discussed moving the oilproducing nation away from fossil fuels with leading environmentalists, like former U.S. Vice Pre...

Kosovos rebel army commander during the 19981999 war with Serbia said Thursday he has been summoned by prosecutors of the international court looking into suspicions of war crimes.

Primary school children returning to the Harris Academy in London on Thursday will find themselves sitting in rows, regularly washing their hands and supported by teachers who have been trained to provide emotional support after lockdown.

A Syrian opposition war monitor said airstrikes on eastern Syria believed to have been carried out by Israeli warplanes early Thursday killed 16 Iranianbacked fighters.

Greece has suffered a huge drop in output in the second quarter of the year, plummeting 15.2% on an annual basis, but the government insisted the figures did not worsen the countrys annual outlook.

The confirmed death toll from the coronavirus has gone over 50,000 in the Middle East as the pandemic continues.

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the government is expanding trials of two new tests a no-swab saliva test and another that gives results in minutes.

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Wednesday declared he would run for the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a race he is heavily favoured to win to become the next prime minister.

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital, was poisoned with a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent in an attempt to murder him, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said.

Eight years ago, rising water levels in Kenya's Lake Nakuru drove away the clouds of pink coloured flamingos that were the park's biggest draw. Rangers say their disappearance triggered a drop in visitor numbers by for the Nakuru National Park.

The United States will not pay some $80 million it owes the World Health Organization (WHO) and will instead redirect the money to help pay its United Nations bill in New York, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.

Police officers in Washington, D.C., fatally shot a young Black man Wednesday who the department said had brandished a firearm," prompting protests amid increased nationwide and local scrutiny over police tactics.

A former firefighter was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for a series of murders and bombings in Sydney during the 1980s that terrorized Australias legal fraternity.

Daniel Prude died March 30 after he was taken off life support, seven days after the encounter with police in Rochester. His death received no public attention until Wednesday, when his family held a news conference and released police body camera video a...

Federal prosecutors in North Carolina announced voter fraud charges Wednesday against 19 noncitizens accused of illegally casting a ballot in 2016.