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Guangzhou city, the epicentre of the latest local virus flare-up in China, has reported 41 locally confirmed cases between May 21 and June 1.

The Boko Haram insurgency broke out in northeastern Nigeria in 2000, but violence frequently spills over into neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon.

A man who struck a sheriff's deputy with his vehicle early Sunday morning following a chase in rural southeastern Oklahoma was fatally shot by a deputy, authorities said.

President Joe Biden marked his first Memorial Day weekend as commander in chief by honoring the nations sacrifices in a deeply personal manner as he paid tribute Sunday to those lost while remembering his late son Beau, a veteran who died six years ago to...

A Montreal woman has been arrested on charges of trying to cross the U.S. border into Canada with numerous undeclared wildlife items," including a threetoed sloth, 18 crocodile skulls and heads and seven crocodile feet, according to documents filed in fed...

A bear attacked and injured a hiker in Yellowstone National Park Friday morning, marking the first incident of a bear injuring a person inside the park this year, officials said. A bear fatally attacked a man just outside the park in April.

John Davis, one of the real singers behind the lipsynching pop duo Milli Vanilli, died of the coronavirus this week, according to his family. He was 66.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday it could take more than a year to weigh an appeal by a developer seeking to build a copper and gold mine in a region that supports the worlds largest sockeye salmon fishery.

A Romanian man accused of running a massive credit card skimming operation in the resort of Cancn was taken into custody Thursday with his arrest as bizarre as the rest of his story in Mexico.

Salvage crews on the coast of Georgia resumed sawing apart the remains of an overturned cargo ship Thursday nearly two weeks after the wreck caught fire.

The United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) agreed on Thursday to probe the forced grounding of a Ryanair passenger plane in Minsk, an incident that prompted international outrage.

Azerbaijan captured six Armenian servicemen in the early hours of Thursday morning, the defence ministries of both countries said, the latest twist in a simmering border dispute.

U.S. health officials have granted emergency authorisation to a third antibody drug for people with mild-to-moderate cases to help reduce hospitalisations and deaths due to COVID-19.

Eric Carle, the beloved childrens author and illustrator whose classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other works gave millions of kids some of their earliest and most cherished literary memories, has died at age 91.

Family members of a 13yearold boy who was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer announced plans Wednesday to build a home in rural Wisconsin where atrisk boys could go to escape the dangers of the city streets.

The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday strongly condemned the arrest of Malis transitional president, prime minister and other officials by the military and called for their immediate and unconditional release and the restoration of the civilianled transi...