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Protests in Colombia marked their ninth day on Thursday with smaller groups of demonstrators in cities including Bogota and Medellin, while industry groups warned of gasoline shortages across the country following road blocks.

Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman AlThani said on Thursday that Gulf Arab states and Iran need to agree on a format to address concerns and ease regional tensions.

A giant sequoia has been found smoldering and smoking in a part of Sequoia National Park that burned in one of California's huge wildfires last year, the National Park Service said Wednesday.

Britain is sending two navy patrol boats to the British Channel Island of Jersey after France suggested it could cut power supplies to the island if its fishermen are not granted full access to UK fishing waters under postBrexit trading terms.

The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is being given to adults in the United States under an emergency use authorisation that the companies received in December.

Rapper YFN Lucci is among a dozen people charged in a wideranging indictment in Atlanta targeting alleged members of the Bloods gang.

Los Angeles and San Francisco on Tuesday became the first major urban areas in California to meet state guidelines to move into the leastrestrictive tier for businesses to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic.

At least one FBI agent opened fire on an armed man outside CIA headquarters in Virginia on Monday, authorities said.

A Roman Catholic priest better known for his outreach to the poor is winning new fans with his catchy public healthfocused lyrics set to a popular 1990s salsa tune as Costa Rica experiences its worst moment of the COVID19 pandemic.

Striker Michail Antonio scored twice on his return from injury to fire West Ham United to a 21 win at Burnley on Monday which lifted them up to fifth place in the Premier League and kept alive their hopes of Champions League football next season.

An appeals court on Monday will consider the constitutionality of the first law in the nation banning transgender women and girls from playing on women's sports teams.

Former circus elephants are starting to arrive at a new wildlife sanctuary in north Florida.

The astronauts, three American and one Japanese, flew back in the same capsule named Resilience in which they launched from NASAs Kennedy Space Center in November

Prosecutors are asking a judge to give Derek Chauvin a more severe penalty than state guidelines call for when he is sentenced in June for George Floyd's death, arguing in court documents filed Friday that Floyd was particularly vulnerable and that Chauvi...

Rio de Janeiro state privatized its water and sewage utility on Friday, after years of broken promises to improve sewage treatment and clean up the state's polluted Guanabara Bay.

Speculation by former President Donald Trump that she won't seek reelection next year is wishful thinking," Liz Cheney said Wednesday.