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Yitzhak Arad, a Holocaust survivor and scholar who was the director of Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial for more than two decades, has died at the age of 94, the center said Thursday.

The South Carolina House voted Wednesday to add a firing squad to the state's execution methods amid a lack of lethalinjection drugs a measure meant to jumpstart executions in a state that once had one of the busiest death chambers in the nation.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Wednesday she will travel to Guatemala and Mexico next month, as she spearheads the Biden administration's efforts to deal with an increase in migration at the U.S. southern border.

Fourteen crew members of a cargo ship that sailed to Durban from India have tested positive for COVID19, South Africa's Transnet National Port Authority has said. A spokesperson from Transnet said the cause of a chief engineer's death aboard the ship was...

The murder trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was wrapping up when Dakwon Gibbs told a friend that George Floyds killing and others like it would never happen in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

The United Nations and European Union on Tuesday urged calm and warned of the use of excessive force amid further protests against the administration of Colombian President Ivan Duque, while local authorities in epicenter Cali reported a further five deat...

The Biden administration on Monday reiterated that the Dakota Access oil pipeline should continue to operate while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts an extensive environmental review, although the Corps said again that it could change its mind.

Egypt has signed a contract with France to buy 30 Rafale fighter jets, its defence ministry said in a statement early on Tuesday, in a deal that investigative website Disclose said on Monday was worth 3.75 billion euro ($4.5 billion).

Trinidad and Tobago said on Monday it was tightening lockdown restrictions for three weeks starting at midnight as the number of new COVID19 cases hits record highs and the Caribbean twinisland nation faces a potential shortage of hospital beds.

A conservation group filed suit asking a judge to stop a federal agency from dredging a Georgia harbor during the nesting season for rare sea turtles that began over the weekend.

Its common practice for police around the U.S. to place combative suspects face down and press down on their backs with hands, elbows or knees to gain control.

A witness to a fivevehicle crash on a Maryland bridge jumped into a bay and rescued a 2yearold girl who had been ejected into the water while still in her car seat, according to authorities.

The Indian-origin couple couple are accused of committing the offences between June 25 and Aug 2, 2018.

A Palestinian woman was killed and two Israelis were seriously wounded in two separate shooting incidents in the occupied West Bank on Sunday.

At least 5,000 protesters took to the streets on Saturday during May Day rallies in Berlin, clashing with police and injuring three officers, police said.

Thousands of Colombians took to the streets on Saturday for International Workers' Day marches and protests against a government tax reform proposal, in a fourth day of demonstrations that have resulted in at least four deaths.