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Brazilian Senate leader Rodrigo Pacheco said on Tuesday he would not consider President Jair Bolsonaro's decree limiting social networks' power to remove content, killing a measure that had met with widespread opposition from tech giants.

About 20 suspected migrants were kidnapped from a central Mexico hotel early Tuesday, authorities said.

Even lawmakers sympathetic to President Joe Biden's decision to end America's longest-running war by withdrawing from Afghanistan after 20 years expressed disappointment and concern about a large number of Americans.

China's last outbreak, which affected mainly Jiangsu, ended about two weeks ago

As the Republican National Committee begins formulating its 2024 presidential nominating calendar, one of the key figures in that process said Monday he doesn't anticipate any major changes to the order of early-state contests.

A popular California ski resort whose name included a derogatory term for Native American women changed its name to Palisades Tahoe Monday. Resort officials had begun searching for a new name last year amid a reckoning over racial injustice.

A fund set up to honor George Floyd and raise awareness about racial injustice said Monday that it has awarded more than $50,000 in scholarships since it was created.

The foundation named after a firefighter who perished on Sept. 11 after running from Brooklyn to Manhattan in full gear held a ceremony in lower Manhattan on Sunday to honor those lost in the years since the attacks.

An explosion collapsed part of a building Sunday at an apartment complex in suburban Atlanta, news outlets reported.

A police officer in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., fatally shot a man who had pointed guns at him that each turned out to be a realistic replica," authorities said Saturday.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to address parliament and hold a news conference on Tuesday about how to manage COVID19 through the winter, a BBC reporter said on Saturday.

Many of the media outlets that explore the country's differences, pausing Saturday to mark the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, recalled almost wistfully the sense of common purpose that united Americans in the aftermath of that day.

Unchecked poverty and ignorance help fundamentalist violence to take hold easily, Pope Francis said as he urged fellow religious leaders and others to counter the phenomenon by promoting schooling.

The period following the attack was one that saw the US implementing an aggressive foreign policy

In the last two decades of war in Afghanistan, 2,448 American soldiers have died in the country and 3,846 people contracted by the US.

Tunisian President Kais Saied on Friday said the country would not tolerate any foreign interference as he faces rising pressure from Western governments to restore constitutional order after seizing power in July.