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Israeli media reported that the man was a member of the balloon's ground crew. The balloon's pilot landed the craft safely.

Top U.S. envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad is stepping down, the State Department said on Monday, less than two months after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover of the country.

The families of the 17 people killed in the 2018 Florida high school massacre, most of the wounded and others traumatized have reached a $25 million settlement with the Broward County school district in a lawsuit that had accused it of negligence.

Miami, Oct 18 (AP) A businessman who prosecutors say was a major conduit for corruption by Nicols Maduro's inner circle appeared for the first time in Miami federal court Monday after a weekend extradition that has further strained relations between the U...

Pakistan's Taliban, known as the Tehrik-e-Taliban or TTP, is a separate organization from Afghanistan's Taliban, though they share much of the same hardline ideology and are allied

With some 143,000 cases and 1,531 deaths, Australia's coronavirus numbers are relatively low.

Frazzled and frustrated by a Baltimore Ravens defense that chased him all over the field, Justin Herbert could only shrug his shoulders after an uncharacteristic poor performance during a stinging defeat.

Independent conservative Peter MarkiZay won a primary contest Sunday to become the joint candidate of a sixparty opposition coalition that will challenge rightwing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Hungary's elections next spring.

Opposition candidate Jose Maria Neves neared victory in Cape Verde's presidential election on Sunday, maintaining a comfortable lead over the ruling party's flagbearer Carlos Veiga with more than 90% of polling stations reporting results.

Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo told supporters Sunday that he'll be involved in politics until his dying day, detailing his ambitions publicly for the first time since being acquitted of war crimes charges.

British authorities have not released the name of the suspect in the fatal stabbing of 69-year-old Conservative lawmaker David Amess.

Italians begin voting on Sunday in a twoday runoff for the local governments of 65 large cities and smaller towns, including the capital Rome.

Pfizer and BioNTech have asked US regulators to authorize emergency use of their COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11.

It was the second week in a row that militants bombed Friday prayers and killed dozens of worshippers.

At a geothermal power plant near El Salvadors Tecapa volcano, 300 computers whir inside a trailer as they make complex mathematical calculations day and night verifying transactions for the cryptocurrency bitcoin.

Two Yanomami children drowned in a river on their reservation where illegal gold miners operate a dredger, an indigenous leader said on Thursday, alleging the boys were sucked into the machine as they played.