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There is no national database tracking police-involved shootings. But studies have shown that Black Americans are much more likely to be killed by police, even though more whites -- who make up a larger portion of the population -- are killed.

Signatories included Ben and Jerry's ice cream co-founder Jerry Greenfield, screenwriter Richard Curtis and filmmaker Abigail Disney.

Researchers said while bats are the ancestral hosts to many deadly viruses affecting humans such as Ebola, rabies, and the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, the flying mammals themselves tolerate these pathogens without ill effects.

Poland's electoral commission is expected to hold a press conference later on Monday, according to an Electoral Commission statement.

In March 2019, Tarrant gunned down Muslim worshippers during Friday prayers at two Christchurch mosques, live-streaming the killings as he went.

The bus carried students preparing to sit their annual college entrance exam when it crashed into Honghsan Lake in southwest China's Guizhou province last Tuesday.

If it receives marketing approval, the companies are preparing to make up to 100 million doses by the end of 2020 and another 1.2 billion doses by the end of 2021 at sites in Germany and the United States.

Dr Mike Ryan, head of WHO's emergencies programme, said by extinguishing clusters of infection, the world could "potentially avoid the worst of having second peaks and having to move backwards in terms of lockdown".

Hisham al-Hashemi, an internationally known scholar whose vast contacts inside Iraq made him a mediator among rivals, was gunned down outside his Baghdad home late Monday by masked assailants on motorcycles.I

The report, which Facebook commissioned two years ago, said the social network has not done enough to protect users from discrimination, falsehoods and incitement to violence, adding to pressure on the company in the midst of an advertiser boycott.

The agreement, the first by the Trump administration to support a therapy, comes under the government's "Operation Warp Speed" program that is aimed at faster distribution of vaccines and treatments to fight the new coronavirus when trials are successful.

It said the detention of Ivan Safronov, a former journalist specialising in military affairs, was not linked to his work with the space agency where he has worked as an advisor to General Director Dmitry Rogozin.

With mounting scientific evidence that the coronavirus can remain airborne for hours, experts recommend that people minimize their time indoors with non-family members and that businesses add powerful new air filters and ultraviolet lights that can kill v...

The book portrays the president as a ‘damaged man’ with ‘lethal flaws’ who ‘threatens the world's health, economic security, and social fabric,’ the publisher described on its website.

Ghana has recorded 19,388 coronavirus cases, one of the highest number of cases in sub-Saharan Africa, with 117 deaths.

The pipeline would end at a terminal outside Vancouver, resulting in a sevenfold increase in the number of tankers in the shared waters between Canada and Was.