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MELBOURNE, Australia All staff and students from two schools in northeast Melbourne in Australia have been told to immediately get tested for COVID-19 after the emergence of seven new cases on Saturday. There were no deaths.

Health officials in the El Paso-area reported 969 new coronavirus cases Friday, leading to more than 10,000 active cases in the region as figures soared over the past week to record highs.

The FBI will join Illinois State Police in investigating a police shooting in suburban Chicago that killed a Black man who was a passenger in a vehicle and wounded the Black female driver, a prosecutor announced Friday.

Brazils health regulator has authorized the import from China of a potential vaccine against the coronavirus, just days after President Jair Bolsonaro insisted he wouldn't allow doses to be shipped from the Asian nation.

Mexicos National Human Rights Commission said Friday that some migrants are being held at some government facilities without proper sanitary measures, with migrants with COVID19 mixed in with some without symptoms.

North Macedonia and Kosovo signed an agreement Friday with the United States on highspeed wireless network security aimed at excluding Chinese hardware providers.

The documentary genres power of immediacy is evident in Not Done: Women Remaking America," which includes the stillunfolding possibility of the first Black female vice president and the loss of Breonna Taylor.

A police recruit in northwestern Indiana was fired less than 24 hours after the department was notified that the officer was involved in a neoNazi online chat forum.

Jacksonville city officials are seeking reimbursement for more than $150,000 in expenses for law enforcement costs, consulting fees and other funds spent preparing to host the National Republican Convention that never took place in their city.

The chair of Britains Hay literary festival said Sunday the event will not return to Abu Dhabi after one of the festivals curators alleged that she was sexually assaulted by the tolerance minister of the United Arab Emirates while working with him.

A landslide early on Sunday left at least 22 soldiers missing in Vietnam's central province of Quang Tri, the government said, as the Southeast Asian country battles the worst flooding in years.

The International Criminal Court's prosecutor is arriving Saturday in Sudan to discuss cooperation with local authorities over bringing to trial those internationally wanted for war crimes and genocide in the country's Darfur conflict, the Sudanese govern...

The Standing Committee of Chinas congress has passed amendments to a law that will criminalize the intentional insulting of the national flag and emblem, after antigovernment protesters last year desecrated the Chinese flag.

Hundreds of Thais chanted at protests that popped up across Bangkok on Saturday in defiance of a crackdown on three months of demonstrations aimed at the government and the powerful monarchy.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party appeared on track for a resounding victory in New Zealand's general election on Saturday, early returns showed, after a campaign dominated by her handling of COVID19.

The French health ministry reported 25,086 new confirmed coronavirus cases in past 24 hours on Friday, after reporting a record 30,621 on Thursday.