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Thai police arrested a student leader on Tuesday as part of a continued crackdown against political activists who helped organize an antigovernment protest in July, a police officer told Reuters.

The U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland Security are setting up a joint operations center to investigate "leftwing civil unrest," President Donald Trump said on Monday, as he accused Democrat Joe Biden of giving moral aid to vandals.

An Illinois accountant who pleaded guilty to embezzling millions of dollars from a trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago and others to finance a luxurious lifestyle was sentenced Monday to 16 years in prison.

Venezuela said on Monday it had pardoned more than 100 opposition politicians, including more than 20 legislators who had been accused of conspiring against President Nicolas Maduro, as the country heads toward parliamentary elections in December.

The coronavirus pandemic has brought hard times for many farmers and has imperiled food security for many millions both in the cities and the countryside.

Executives of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party agreed on Tuesday to hold its leadership race in a slimmeddown format to choose the successor of outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, SecretaryGeneral Toshihiro Nikai said.

With Trump exalting in the shift of debate from his widely panned handling of the coronavirus pandemic to his favored theme of crime, Biden risks losing the momentum that has put him ahead in the polls for the November 3 vote.

Imprisoned Guatemalan gang members took 10 guards hostage Monday after prison system authorities moved some gang leaders to another lockup.

South Carolina's stateowned utility has reached a settlement with the now bankrupt company hired to build two nuclear plants that were never completed to sell leftover equipment and supplies, three years after construction was halted.

The Venezuelan government said Monday that it had pardoned more than 100 political opponents, including some who are in prison, took refuge in foreign embassies in Caracas or fled the country fearing for their safety.

France's President Emmanuel Macron said he would press for reforms aimed at dragging Lebanon out of a financial abyss as he began a visit to Beirut hours after Lebanese leaders named diplomat Mustapha Adib new PM on Monday under French pressure.

New Jersey and California on Monday took a big step toward resumption of their prepandemic economies by allowing restaurants to begin limited indoor dining, as new coronavirus cases abated nationwide even as some new hotspots emerged.

A St. Louis police officer killed over the weekend was among eight officers who have been shot during an extraordinarily violent year in the city.

Supporters of Ivory Coasts expresident Laurent Gbagbo have submitted his documents to the electoral commission to get him registered as a candidate in the October elections, although his name had already been removed from the list of candidates.

As the COVID19 pandemic froze the United States economy, not all Latin American immigrants living there were affected equally, a look at the money they sent back to their birthplaces reveals.

A U.S. appeals court on Monday denied a bid by Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, to immediately end the criminal case against him for lying to the FBI about his talks with a Russian official before Trump took office...