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China's GDP jumped a record 18.3 per cent in the first quarter from a year earlier, official data showed on Friday.

Mexican authorities have charged 30 marines for allegedly participating in a string of forced disappearances in the violent northern border city of Nuevo Laredo in 2018, the Attorney General's Office said on Thursday.

Poland's top vaccination official said Thursday he did not see any obstacle to the country's inoculation program from the moral reservations expressed by the powerful Catholic Church about two vaccines.

The Israeli military says a projectile fired from the Gaza Strip Thursday evening landed in south of the country, breaking weeks of relative crossborder calm.

Germany's airline industry and main rail company said Thursday they aim to encourage more people to switch from planes to trains for domestic routes, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

China needs to halve carbon dioxide emissions from its coalfired power plants by the end of the decade if it is to remain on course to become carbon neutral by 2060, according to research published on Thursday.

The war in Afghanistan began as a search for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after he masterminded Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the US

One of the countrys largest forprofit, privately run immigration jails would be shut down by 2025 under a bill signed Wednesday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.

Florida lawmakers moved closer to requiring transgender athletes to undergo testosterone or genetic testing as well as submit to having their genitalia examined to participate on sports teams in public schools and colleges.

One of the 22 women who have filed lawsuits accusing Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual assault and harassment has dropped her case, citing privacy and security concerns after some of the women were ordered to make their names public foll...

Mexicos unwillingness to spend money, do more testing, change course or react to new scientific evidence contributed to the country being one of the worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report released this week by the University of Calif...

Over 800 Indian Sikhs are among those affected by the road blockade by the TLP workers.

Australia has fared much better than many other developed countries during the pandemic, with just over 29,400 COVID-19 cases and 910 deaths.

Two North Carolina police officers were placed on leave after at least one of them was shown on video throwing punches at a Black man who was taken to the ground after a foot pursuit.

Mexican prosecutors on Tuesday filed criminal charges against a former senator who under the previous government helped to pass a major energy reform which President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has attacked as tainted by corruption.

Gov. Jay Inslee has commuted the sentences of more than a dozen drug offenders in the past few days, freeing them from prison as Washington's legal system struggles with the fallout from a court ruling that voided the state's drug possession law.