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Gun control activist X González has a message for people: Do not underestimate the power of your voice, it can effect change.

French Prime Minister Jean Castex told his British counterpart, Boris Johnson, that he rejected the idea of a joint BritishFrench patrol in the English Channel to fight illegal migration, a letter obtained by Reuters showed on Thursday.

A Libyan court on Thursday overturned a decision by the countrys top electoral body that disqualified the son of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi from running in upcoming presidential elections.

The United States will join other members of the World Trade Organization in signing a declaration on gender equality and women's economic empowerment, the U.S. Trade Representative's office said on Thursday.

The first known U.S. case was a fully vaccinated person in California who returned to the United States from South Africa on November 22.

Poverty, poor infrastructure and natural weather variability are bigger contributors to Madagascar's food crisis than climate change, according to a study released on Thursday by international research collective World Weather Attribution.

A woman found dead in her garage was the mother of the knifewielding man fatally shot by police at the home over the weekend, Maryland officials said.

Congolese authorities on Wednesday sought to allay concerns about the arrival of Ugandan troops in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for an ongoing joint operation against a militia linked to Islamic State.

A prosecutor said Wednesday that he dropped a firstdegree murder charge against a Missouri man in the 1988 killing of a 31yearold woman.

Two Israelis drove into the Palestinian city of Ramallah Wednesday, and their car was surrounded by a crowd and set ablaze, according to the Israeli army and video footage posted online. Palestinian police turned the men over to Israel.

South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said early epidemiological data suggested Omicron was able to evade some immunity.

Andre Dickens, who rolled to victory Tuesday in the Atlanta mayor's race, was told he was aiming too high once before.

Iran has started producing enriched uranium with more efficient advanced centrifuges at its Fordow plant dug into a mountain, the U.N. atomic watchdog said on Wednesday, further eroding the 2015 Iran nuclear deal during talks with the West on saving it.

Vaccine makers are already looking into reformulating their shots to address omicron, a step that was not required for fighting delta.

A U.S. delegation led by the special representative for Afghanistan, Thomas West, held talks with senior Afghan Taliban representatives in Qatar on Monday and Tuesday, the U.S. State Department said.

The European Commission on Tuesday retracted internal communication guidelines that had proposed substituting the Christmas period with holiday period after an outcry by conservatives and the Vatican, which termed the document an attempt to cancel Europes...