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Prosecutors in Mexicos most violent state said seven men have been shot to death at a mechanics shop.

The Delta variant is becoming the globally dominant version of the disease, the World Health Organization's chief scientist said on Friday.

The US and the EU besides many other countries have accused China of committing a genocide against the minority Muslim Uygurs in Xinjiang

On their way out of the tournament and having lost Christian Eriksen to a cardiac arrest, Denmark tore up the script to secure a spot in the Euro 2020 knockout stages in a fairytale ending that Hans Christian Andersen could barely have imagined.

Brazilian pop star Anitta joined the board of Latin American financial startup Nubank to help market its credit cards, loans and checking accounts, but the choice of a critic of President Jair Bolsonaro angered his supporters.

An oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands that contaminated the environment in a series of events that forced schools to close and sickened dozens of residents announced Monday that it would remain shuttered indefinitely.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would lead a new drive to capitalise on scientific and technological breakthroughs made in Britain with a programme to direct research into areas that will benefit the public good.

France's far right performed worse than predicted in Sunday's regional elections, exit polls showed, leaving victory in the southern battleground of ProvenceAlpesCote d'Azur and a platform for the 2022 presidential election in the balance.

Since former US President Donald Trump pulled out of the deal and reimposed sanctions on Iran, Tehran has embarked on counter measures, including rebuilding stockpiles of enriched uranium, a potential pathway to nuclear bombs.

The sources, with Yemen's internationally recognised government, told AFP that 16 soldiers from their ranks were killed, including six officers, on Saturday.

To keep militancy at bay, the US is in negotiations with Pakistan and other regional governments about future operations in the war-torn country.

Prosecutors asked a judge Friday to limit what jurors can hear of the psychological history of victims in a forced labor case, saying they were manipulated by a man who posed as a mental health expert and was sometimes there before or after many of them a...

A New Orleans man has been charged with killing an offduty university police officer outside a high school basketball game where hed shown up without a mask.

Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization says it is now recommending people who got the AstraZeneca vaccine first should get PfizerBioNTech or Moderna for their second shot.

Opponents of the Enbridge Energy Line 3 oil pipeline project in northwestern Minnesota continued their protests this week by disrupting traffic in front of an Enbridge equipment site, leading to 31 arrests.

A North Carolina sheriffs office has agreed to a $6 million settlement in a lawsuit in which six families accused the department of a pattern of using excessive force doled out by deputies who had allegedly referred to themselves as the KKK, an attorney s...