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Peruvian frontrunning leftwing presidential candidate Pedro Castillo was rushed to a clinic in Lima on Thursday for "respiratory" illness, forcing him to suspend campaigning, the candidate's party said on social media.

A University of Arkansas committee says tributes honoring a former senator, alum and segregationist whose beliefs did not align with the values of the institution today should be removed from campus.

A man who fired shots as police arrived at a South Carolina home to investigate a domestic violence call was arrested Thursday, hours after the start of a massive air and ground search for him, authorities said.

Britains motion picture academy on Thursday suspended actordirector Noel Clarke after a newspaper reported that multiple women had accused him of sexual harassment or bullying.

A judge refused Wednesday to release body camera video showing North Carolina deputies shooting and killing a Black man, ruling that making the video public at this stage could jeopardize the investigation into Andrew Brown Jr.'s death.

A former Georgia deputy has pleaded guilty to possessing unregistered firearms, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

The Louisville police officer who fired at Breonna Taylor after being shot during the deadly raid on Taylors apartment is retiring.

Human rights groups have urged energy companies, including Chevron, Total, to cut ties to Myanmar

The former head of South Africa's ministerial advisory committee on COVID-19, Indian-origin professor Salim Abdool Karim, has been appointed to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Science Council. The Science Council, which has nine of the world's leading...

A U.S. military ship fired warning shots after three vessels from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) came close to it and another American patrol boat in the Gulf, the United States military said on Tuesday.

A posthumous pardon request was submitted on Monday to Texas officials on behalf of George Floyd for a 2004 drug arrest that was done by a now indicted exHouston police officer whose case history is under scrutiny following a deadly drug raid.

The superintendent of the Florida school district where 17 students and staff died in a 2018 high school massacre prepared for his testimony before a statewide grand jury by contacting witnesses in a criminal case and then lied about it when asked, prosec...

The Department of Homeland Security on Monday announced an internal review to address the threat of domestic violent extremism within the sprawling agency.

He said he had already announced 2,600 extra WHO staff members were going to India to help support the effort to fight the disease.

Germany has classified India as a coronavirus high incidence area and also put the country on a separate warning list for coronavirus variants.

The decision came after Western Australia announced that the regions of Perth and Peel were entering a three-day lockdown