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Russia on Friday stopped a U.N. Security Council committee from blacklisting a Libyan militia group and its leader for human rights abuses because it said it wanted to see more evidence first that they had killed civilians. 

A top adviser to Presidentelect Joe Biden, who has pledged a renewed U.S. emphasis on human rights, on Friday voiced concern about a prominent Egyptian rights group that said security agents had arrested its executive director this week.

The U.N. human rights office, the United States and several European countries on Friday criticised the arrest of three members of a prominent Egyptian rights group after a meeting with diplomats in Cairo.

While President Donald Trump vows to press ahead with efforts to overturn the election, judges across the country have consistently swatted down his legal challenges.

A Cincinnati City Council member the third this year to be arrested on corruption allegations insisted Friday that he is innocent.

The number of COVID19 infections in England appears to have levelled off in recent weeks, Britain's Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Friday.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has full confidence in his interior minister Priti Patel and judges that she did not breach the ministerial code in an alleged case of bullying staff, the government said on Friday.

United Nations aid agencies called on Friday for an immediate temporary ceasefire in Ethiopia and the setting up of humanitarian corridors that would enable access to civilians after two weeks of fighting.

Patriarch Irinej, the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, has died after contracting COVID19, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday.

Djeneba Sawadogo was making a cake when she heard a noise she did not recognise a series of sharp cracks that rang across the village of Tongomayel in northern Burkina Faso in June 2019.

The U.S. government put convicted rapist and murderer Orlando Hall to death by lethal injection on Thursday, the eighth execution under the Trump administration since capital punishment was reinstated at the federal level over the summer.

A statement posted on the website of Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger said that the audit confirmed that the original machine count accurately portrayed the winner of the election.

European Union leaders clashed briefly on Thursday over a veto by Poland and Hungary of the bloc's 1.8 trillion euro plan to recover from the recession caused by the COVID19 pandemic, but agreed in a virtual summit to allow more time for an agreement.

The European Union aims to draw up a master military strategy document to define future threats, goals and ambitions in defence while focusing on six new areas of joint weapons development including tanks, officials and diplomats said.

A final investigation into a 2016 air crash in Pakistan found that three technical faults caused the accident that killed all 47 on board, the country's civil aviation authority said on Thursday.

American hard rock band Guns N' Roses have announced that they will be embarking on a tour of Australia and New Zealand in 2021. The stadium tour announcement is the first of its kind since the COVID-19 pandemic cancelled many film and music events, gro...