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An aid worker suffered mortal wounds when he was apparently caught in crossfire earlier this week in southern Yemen, an international charity said Wednesday.

Karine JeanPierre on Wednesday became the first openly gay woman to deliver the White House press briefing and only the second Black woman in history to take on the role.

U.S. prosecutors in 2019 sought the electronic messages of two exUkrainian government officials and a Ukrainian businessman as part of their probe of Rudy Giuliani's dealings in that country, a lawyer accidentally revealed in a court filing Tuesday.

The board that oversees Virginias community colleges has asked two schools to reconsider their decisions to keep names that honor people who owned slaves or advocated for segregation.

Dave Muhlbauer, an Iowa farmer and a former county supervisor, on Monday became the first Democrat to announce he is running for Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley's seat.

Brazil's Federal Police on Monday arrested Rocco Morabito, a fugitive Italian drug lord with ties to the powerful 'Ndrangheta criminal gang, underlining the growing importance of Brazil in the Europebound cocaine trade.

Nashville's top prosecutor said Monday that he will not enforce a newly enacted law that requires businesses and government facilities open to the public to post a sign if they let transgender people use multiperson bathrooms and other facilities associat...

Defender DeAndre Yedlin and forward Jordan Siebatcheu earned spots on the 23man U.S. roster for the CONCACAF National League semifinal against Honduras at Denver on June 3.

A 6yearold boy seated in the backseat of his mothers car on a Southern California freeway was shot to death by another driver in a roadrage attack Friday, authorities said.

A court in the Canadian province of Ontario ruled on Thursday that Iran owes damages to families who sued after Iran's Revolutionary Guards shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane in January 2020, soon after it took off from Tehran.

With a ceasefire due to take effect on Friday, Israelis and Palestinians counted the cost of 11 days of hostilities that disabled Gaza's sanitation facilities and other infrastructure while disrupting Israel's economy. Here are some details.

Thousands of people rallied against the Czech Republic's justice minister Thursday, accusing her of undermining the independence of the country's legal system and spreading misinformation about the investigation of a huge ammunition depot explosion allege...

Surges in violence and scenes of civilian suffering are testing President Joe Bidens resolve to wrench Americas foreign policy focus and troops away from the hotspots of the Middle East and Afghanistan, and giving ammunition to Bidens political rivals at...

Ontario expects to permit outdoor gatherings of up to 10 people and allow nonessential retail to operate at 15% capacity starting the week of June 14, contingent on certain vaccination rates being met, the premier announced on Thursday.

The United States earlier this month cleared the way for the use of vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech in adolescents aged 12 and above.

The deadly viral infection has so far infected 4,468,366 people and claimed 127,956 lives in the UK.