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At the height of the coronavirus pandemic in New York City in April, physician Michael D'Urso was scrambling to care for the seemingly everincreasing number of patients being wheeled into the emergency room where he worked.

The former head of payroll company pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges related to a scheme that caused more than $100 million in losses to banks and businesses and left thousands of workers at small businesses without paychecks.

A shooting in a small South Carolina city involving sheriff's deputies has left a man dead and a woman injured.

Dozens of Black former University of Michigan student-athletes who claim they were abused by a sports doctor who worked there for decades on Wednesday asked the university to treat them fairly as it settles hundreds of lawsuits expected to cost the schoo...

Jordan will close its land trade border crossing with Syria for a week after a spike in COVID19 cases coming from its northern neighbour, officials said on Wednesday.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday that the White House and top Democrats in Congress may not be able to reach a deal on coronavirus aid, in the fifth day without talks on the stalemate blocking relief to tens of millions of American...

Norway is reimposing quarantine on more travellers from foreign countries, the government said on Wednesday, and reiterated its advice that Norwegians should avoid travelling abroad amid a jump in the number of new coronavirus cases.

In announcing Kamala Harris as his vice-presidential running mate, Joe Biden told supporters she was the person best equipped to “take this fight” to Donald Trump.

New Zealanders on Wednesday scrambled to stock up on essentials as the country's biggest city prepared to go into lockdown again, following new cases of the coronavirus that ended a 102day record run without any new infections.

More than 70 people were killed and dozens injured during weekend clashes between South Sudans army and armed civilians in northcentral Tonj, the United Nations reported Tuesday.

The parents of Elijah McClain, a 23yearold Black man who died after officers in suburban Denver stopped him on the street last year and put him in a chokehold, sued police and medical officials Tuesday.

Rome mayor Virginia Raggi, from the antiestablishment 5Star Movement, has announced plans to run for a second term, hoping to steal a march on rivals in a long campaign for next year's vote.

When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival, Benny Gantz, agreed to form an emergency government in May after three bitter and deadlocked election campaigns, the goal was to stabilize Israeli politics in the face of a global pandemic.

Dozens of Palestinians protested outside the German diplomatic office in the West Bank on Tuesday, seeking to draw attention to Israel's arrest of a leading coordinator of the Palestinianled boycott movement against Israel.

Lawyers for a jailed Zimbabwean journalist have asked a court to force prison authorities to stop the blatant and malicious stripping away of his rights, including lack of access to appropriate food and warm clothing.

Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanouskaya said on Tuesday she had fled abroad for the sake of her children, after two nights of clashes following the contested reelection of strongman President Alexander Lukashenko.