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A New Mexico city has agreed to pay $6.5 million to the family of Mexican American man who was choked to death by a police officer.

New Zealand on Thursday reported five new confirmed cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours compared with six a day earlier, as the Pacific nation battles a fresh outbreak in its biggest city of Auckland.

South Korea's Green Cross Corp has received regulatory approval for phase II human clinical trials of its experimental coronavirus plasma treatment drug, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said on Thursday.

The Guatemalan government said Wednesday that the Unites States has deported 127 detained migrants who had suffered from COVID19 but recovered.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo responded Wednesday to an Associated Press report that his states coronavirus death toll in nursing homes could be a significant undercount, saying it makes sense to include only those residents who died on the homes property.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Russia and China not to disregard the reimposition of all United Nations sanctions on Iran, which President Donald Trump has directed him to trigger at the U.N. Security Council in New York on Thursday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced that the ruling party will hold a congress next year to decide a new fiveyear plan, with a party meeting noting serious delays in improving the national economy, state media said on Thursday.

The former speaker of the Ohio House still can't find a permanent lawyer to defend him against a charge related to an alleged $60 million bribery scheme and needs more time to hire one, according to a Wednesday court filing.

Northern Californians were confronted with multiple threats as wildfires, unhealthy smoky air, extreme heat, the looming possibility of power outages and an ongoing pandemic forced many to weigh the risks of staying indoors or going outside.

Dozens of lightningsparked wildfires caused thousands of evacuations in Northern California's wine country on Wednesday, and Colorado battled its secondlargest fire ever as a heat wave supercharged blazes across the U.S. West.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' top national security adviser stepped down Wednesday after suggesting that Greece conceded ground to Turkey in the neighbors' ongoing faceoff over offshore energy prospecting rights in the eastern Mediterranean.

Tens of thousands of prospective students hoping to get into Mexicos largest public university on Wednesday began taking the notoriously competitive entrance exam for the National Autonomous University of Mexico, better known as the UNAM.

Francisco Asue was reappointed as prime minister of Equatorial Guinea on Wednesday, the government said, after he and the government resigned last week after criticism from longstanding President Teodoro Obiang.

At least one in four people in India may have been infected with the coronavirus a much higher number than official government figures suggest, the head of leading private laboratory says.

The White House on Wednesday pushed for Congress to take up a narrow coronavirus economic relief bill that Democrats have long rejected, while a leading Senate Democrat said real action may come soon after the Sept. 7 U.S. Labor Day holiday.

Its a living nightmare but a socially distanced one.