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European Union election observers began their mission in Venezuela on Thursday, as campaigning kicked off for regional elections next month which are set to include opposition candidates.

Topseeded Simona Halep overcame a back injury to defeat Varvara Gracheva of Russia 64, 62 Thursday and reach the quarterfinals of the Transylvania Open.

A Louisiana man has been convicted of trying to hire a hit man to kill his exwife while he was in jail awaiting trial on sexual assault charges involving her two young daughters.

A man who was killed in an Idaho shooting at a Boise mall on Monday was shopping for gifts for his family when he was wounded, family members said.

Beginning November 1, fully vaccinated travellers from 46 countries and territories that Thailand deems "low risk" will be allowed to enter without going through quarantine.

Demonstrators in Ecuador on Tuesday protested against the economic policies of conservative President Guillermo Lasso days after he raised gasoline prices, with road blockades taking place in some parts of the country.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol deferred its requests for several dozen pages of Trump administration records at the White House's urging, but President Joe Biden again rejected the former president's invocati...

Bad weather off Canada's Pacific Coast on Monday prevented a salvage crew from boarding a cargo ship where several containers of chemicals burned over the weekend, the coast guard said.

Anastasia Gasanova of Russia saved two match points before outlasting fourthseeded Jil Teichmann 45, 60, 75 Monday in the first round of the Transylvania Open.

The United States has not joined the meetings at the presidential level since Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump, attended an ASEAN-US meeting in Manila in 2017.

More than 100 people gathered Sunday in a small Michigan town to pray for the safe release of a local family among 17 members of a missionary group kidnapped by a gang in Haiti more than a week ago.

One person was killed and seven others injured Saturday in an explosion at a restaurant in a suburb of Uganda's capital, Kampala, police said.

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed a Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in effect for now. But in an unusual move the justices said they want to hear arguments in the case at the soonest opportunity.

Commuters in the Washington area will face longer waits for Metro trains through at least the end of the month and probably longer, as more than half the fleet of train cars will remain out of service over safety issues.

Nigeria's Borno state, the epicentre of an ongoing Islamist insurgency, will shut all camps that are holding thousands of internally displaced persons by the end of the year, its governor said on Friday, citing improved security in the state.

His comments came as it emerged that experts have said that it is time to reintroduce stricter COVID measures such as asking people to work from home.