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Iran has released a prominent human rights activist who campaigned against the death penalty, Iranian media reported Thursday.

Louisiana on Thursday steeled itself for another in a recordbreaking series of violent storms as Hurricane Delta sped across the Gulf of Mexico toward a region still recovering from the last storm.

Kyrgyzstan's parliament has failed to gather a quorum in an overnight session, deputies said on Thursday, leaving the Central Asian nation in a power vacuum as rival groups tried to claim power after ousting the cabinet.

Wednesday night's matchup between Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic challenger Senator Kamala Harris opened without the fireworks that marred last week's chaotic debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.

New Zealand's upcoming general election has the rare distinction of providing a choice of two female candidates as the country's next leader in a poll that could be decided by the female vote.

Brazil passed the mark of 5 million confirmed COVID19 cases on Wednesday as it approached 150,000 deaths in the second most deathly coronavirus outbreak outside the United States.

The United States will reduce its troops in Afghanistan to 2,500 early next year, national security adviser Robert O'Brien said on Wednesday, offering greater detail about the pace and scope of the drawdown from America's longest war.

Broadway theaters may be dark, but there will be plenty of new online productions of some of classic plays this fall with some starry selfisolating actors, including Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Patti LuPone, Laura Linney and David Alan Grier.

Trump tested positive last week and returned to the White House Monday evening after spending three days at the Walter Reed military medical center.

Ugandan activist Vanessa Nakate challenged world leaders to wake up and recognize climate change as a crisis as she tied it to poverty, hunger, disease, conflict and violence against women and girls in a speech broadcast Wednesday as part of the Desmond T...

A Croatian court on Wednesday acquitted the country's bestknown tycoon in one of the cases related to the collapse of a retail company that has shaken the Balkan region.

Iranian state TV said the country has hit its highest number of daily deaths from the coronavirus, with 239 new fatalities reported on Wednesday.

Two presidents have been overthrown in Kyrgyzstan in the past 15 years, and longtime ally Russia expressed concern as protests spread across the country in the wake of Sunday's vote.

Harris, who is the first woman of color on a major party’s national ticket, has tried to downplay expectations for herself in the vice-presidential debate, reflecting concerns quietly raised by some aides and allies that the standard for her success Wedne...

Vietnam has arrested a prominent blogger and dissident for "antistate activities" hours after its government held annual talks on human rights with the United States, sources and international human rights groups said on Wednesday.

The ropes are swinging. Chalk stains the mats anew. And students at the ESAC international circus school in Brussels are smiling again, even if it is through a mask sometimes.