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A freight train in southern Chile was derailed and some of its cargo units burned by unknown assailants on Tuesday, officials said, amid tensions between the state and the local Mapuche indigenous group demanding the return of ancestral lands.

Police found the bulletridden bodies of 11 men in the western state of Michoacan, where several drug cartels have been waging bloody turf battles.

A spate of mining protests in Peru is sending jitters through the Andean country's markets and raising a test for leftist President Pedro Castillo, who sent officials on Tuesday to the huge Antamina copper mine to defuse a local community blockade.

The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that killed a cinematographer says he hopes the tragedy prompts the film industry to reevaluate its values and practices to ensure no one is harmed again.

More than 100 global leaders late on Monday pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade, underpinned by $19 billion in public and private funds to invest in protecting and restoring forests.

Dr. Aaron T. Beck, a groundbreaking psychotherapist regarded as the father of cognitive therapy, died Monday at his Philadelphia home. He had turned 100 in July.

Christiana Figueres knows how to hammer out a climate deal, and she doesnt expect the United Nations conference that just started in Glasgow to end with the kind of big moment she engineered in Paris six years ago. But she remains optimistic, saying fail...

A 19yearold man has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with a fatal shooting at a city councilmembers Northern California home, where one person died and three other people were injured, authorities said Sunday.

The new delivery of Moderna Inc doses will depart from Louisville, Kentucky, on Sunday aboard a flight belonging to Taiwan's China Airlines, an official said.

The 16 fatalities have taken Singapore's death toll from the coronavirus to 380.

Attorneys general from Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming signed on to the lawsuit, which was filed in a federal district court in Missouri.

Four people were killed and 11 others were hurt Friday when a sport utility vehicle carrying 15 migrants rolled over on a West Texas highway, officials said.

A military jury imposed a sentence of 26 years Friday on a former Maryland man who admitted joining alQaida and has been held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. But under a plea deal, the man could be released as soon as next year because of his coop...

Brazilian and American scientists on Thursday tranquilized a wildborn female jaguar now living in a protected area in Sao Paulo state. They're hoping the 110pound feline named Bianca could make history for the second time in two years.

A schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black children were taught before the Revolutionary War will be moved from the William & Mary campus to Colonial Williamsburg and restored to its original state, officials announced Friday.

A Dutch woman charged seven years ago with raising money for the Somali terrorist group alShabab has been extradited to the U.S. to face trial.