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Millions of residents in the city and several other areas will be placed under stay-at-home orders from Saturday afternoon for three days

Antigovernment protesters on Friday blocked intersections across Guatemala for the second day in a row as calls intensified for President Alejandro Giammattei and the attorney general to step down after the ousting of a top anticorruption official.

The United States imposed sanctions on the Cuban police force and two of its leaders on Friday in response to the Havana government's crackdown on protesters, and President Joe Biden promised CubanAmerican leaders more actions were coming.

Republican lawmakers in Georgia have started a process that could lead to a takeover of elections in the states most populous county.

Around 20,000 Afghans worked for the US following the 2001 invasion in the wake of the September 11 attacks and have applied for evacuation under the State Department's so-called Special Immigrant Visas program.

China is accused of using forced sterilisation techniques on Uyghur women and separating Uyghur children from their families.

Authorities on Thursday released the names of two workers who died in a chemical leak at a Houstonarea plant that also injured dozens of others.

There were cheers and screams and happy tears for one of their own, and unending delight for what many saw as an Only in America story.

Conservative lawmakers made a push Thursday to boot Republican Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger out of the House GOP because the two defied party leaders and joined the chamber's special committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack by supporters...

Puerto Rico's governor announced Wednesday that all public employees must be vaccinated against the coronavirus starting next month as the U.S. territory reports a new rise in cases.

The Oklahoma City Thunder have announced an exclusive 15year naming rights partnership to rename the city's downtown arena after Paycom, a local company that offers online payroll and human resources services to employers.

Chinese troops seized Tibet in 1950 in what Beijing calls a "peaceful liberation". In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled into exile in India following a failed uprising against Chinese rule.

Social media lit up with anger after images circulated online of the helicopter landing in a field at the weekend to pick up the takeaway from a well-known Ipoh eatery.

Britain is expected to remove France from its "amber" category of coronavirus risk countries and could drop quarantine for travellers from France as soon as next week, The Times reported on Monday.

Armed bandits in Nigeria have seized a negotiator who had been sent to pay ransom money to secure the release of 136 students kidnapped two months ago from an Islamic school in the north of the African nation, the school and parents said.

The immunological response in the blood of 50 patients was tested two weeks after receiving their second and final dose of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine.