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An Indian court has acquitted all 32 people who had been accused of crimes in a 1992 attack and demolition of a 16th century mosque that sparked HinduMuslim violence leaving some 2,000 people dead.

Milagros Sotelo was looking forward to traveling from South America to Tennessee to start a job at Ober Gatlinburg ski resort this winter. The 22yearold student worked the last two ski seasons in the equipment rental shop at the small resort nestled in th...

South Koreans will forego some of their most cherished traditions when they celebrate their thanksgiving holiday of Chuseok this week, as the coronavirus forces many to hold virtual services instead of visiting their ancestral sites.

A criminal court in North Macedonia has sentenced former conservative prime minister Nikola Gruevski to 1 1/2 years in prison, and handed suspended sentences to six other party members and supporters for orchestrating violence in 2013.

The chief suspect in a double stabbing in Paris told investigators he acted out of anger over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad recently republished by the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, France's counterterrorism prosecutor said Tuesday.

Scott Brennan stood powerless in the Iowa Democratic Party's war room in the wee hours of Feb. 4 as efforts to report 2020's first presidential caucuses results failed spectacularly. But the Des Moines lawyer had been worried for years.

Ukraine on Tuesday marked the 79th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, one of the most infamous mass slaughters of World War II.

The Vatican on Tuesday answered critics and justified its pursuit of an extended agreement with China on bishop nominations, acknowledging difficulties but insisting the effort had achieved limited, positive results.

A man on Cambodias southern coast was arrested for possessing almost 300 centuriesold earthenware jars that he is believed to have salvaged from a shipwreck, an official said Tuesday.

The Pakistani man who wounded two people with a knife in front of the former offices of Charlie Hebdo last week did not know that the satirical magazine had moved and wanted to set its offices on fire, the Paris prosecutor said on Tuesday.

BBC Director General Tim Davie said on Tuesday he would discipline presenters and journalists who broke the broadcaster's impartiality rules by airing their own views on social media, and could fire them for the most serious breaches.

This year, a lot has changed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many citizens even appealed to call-off the elections. However, the elections are still on and with it, the political opponents are gearing up for the first presidential debate of 2020.

The European Unions external auditor said Tuesday that child poverty has reached an unacceptable" level across the world's largest economy, a situation likely to worsen during the coronavirus pandemic.

A federal judge on Tuesday will weigh whether to grant a request by the Justice Department to dismiss a criminal charge against President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn in a highly anticipated court hearing.

French police on Tuesday dismantled a migrant camp in the northern port of Calais, from where thousands of illegal economic migrants and wouldbe asylum seekers have sought to cross the English Channel to reach British shores.

An additional 700,000 children in Syria face hunger because of the country's badly damaged economy and the impact of coronavirus restrictions, an international aid group warned Tuesday.