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A federal judge has declined to block Thursdays scheduled execution of an Alabama inmate convicted of the 1991 kidnap and murder of a woman abducted outside an automatic teller machine.

Qatar, which hosts a major US airbase, has been the gateway for 55,000 people airlifted out of Afghanistan.

Veteran Conservative lawmaker Amess, who was 69, was stabbed to death on Friday as he met voters at a church.

Police have charged a convicted murderer who was released from prison last year with the slaying of a South Florida woman whose body was found in a canal after being missing for three weeks.

The move comes after the country's energy minister Udaya Gammanpila warned that the current availability of fuel in the country can be guaranteed only till next January.

In a recently released report on TB, WHO said 1.5 million people worldwide died of the bacterial disease last year.

A California man pleaded guilty Friday to threatening harm in text messages sent during the attack on the Capitol to a New Yorkbased family member of a journalist.

A central California county executive has pledged immediate changes after a news report revealed that vulnerable children removed from their families were living in deplorable conditions inside an office building sleeping on conference tables, eating fas...

Central African Republic President FaustinArchange Touadera on Friday declared a unilateral cessation of fighting against armed groups, saying he hoped it would lead to peaceful dialogue.

Mexico City prosecutors announced Thursday they will bring criminal charges shortly against several people and companies for construction and design defects that caused an elevated subway line to collapse in May, killing 26 people.

Around 20 men broke into a Moscow office of the Memorial human rights group late on Thursday and interrupted a public film screening about 1930s famine in Soviet Ukraine by hostile chants, a video from the scene showed.

A U.S. judge has set a twoweek deadline for a Libyan military commander to answer questions in a lawsuit accusing him of war crimes.

US officials, however, stressed that the priority is to get shots to the 66 million unvaccinated Americans who are eligible for immunisation against Covid-19.

A county in southern Oregon says it is so overwhelmed by an increase in the number and size of illegal marijuana farms that it declared a state of emergency Wednesday, appealing to the governor and the Legislature's leaders for help.

One Syrian soldier was killed and three others wounded in an Israeli air attack on Syria's Palmyra area in the province of Homs on Wednesday evening, the Syrian defense ministry said.

North Koreans living under strict pandemic restrictions are facing a growing food crisis and the most vulnerable children and elderly people in the isolated Asian nation are at risk of starvation, a U.N. investigator said in a report released Wednesday.