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The Russian military said Monday that its airstrike killed about 200 militants in eastern Syria.

Attorneys and witnesses have used the words reasonable or unreasonable often at the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder and manslaughter in George Floyd s death.

The vaccine has already been distributed to pharmacies but currently can only be given to people turning 55 or older this year.

The State Department on Saturday ordered nonessential diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Chad to leave the African nation due to potential insurgent attacks on the capital.

The Czech Republic is expelling 18 Russian diplomats over suspicions that Russian intelligence services were involved in an ammunition depot explosion in 2014, its government said on Saturday.

Newly released grand jury transcripts shed more light on why police officers who restrained Daniel Prude avoided criminal charges in his death, but the city of Rochester and the officers could still be held accountable.

The attorney for a man who accused NFL star Aaron Donald of assaulting him at a Pittsburgh nightclub last weekend has apologized, saying it was a case of mistaken identity.

A grand jury will consider whether to bring charges against a man who drove into a crowd demonstrating in Austin against police violence last July and shot and killed an armed protester, prosecutors said Friday.

International monitors will watch over a nearly sixmonthold ceasefire agreement in Libya, the U.N. Security Council decided in a vote announced Friday, as the country heads toward December elections after a decade of fighting and upheaval.

The Ohio county sheriff and his tiny police dog were inseparable, their lives unwaveringly intertwined.

Police spokeswoman Genae Cook told reporters officers found an "active shooter incident" at a Fedex facility near the city's international airport, and believe the gunman died by suicide.

Chile's health authorities said on Thursday they believed a dip in the record case numbers the Andean nation has seen over the past week represents a "stabilization" of a second COVID19 wave thanks to strict lockdowns and a rapid vaccination program that...

The U.N. Security Council is voting on a draft resolution that urges all foreign forces and mercenaries to leave Libya and authorizes a small U.N. team to monitor last Octobers ceasefire agreement that ordered their departure.

Australia has fared much better than many other developed countries during the pandemic, with just over 29,400 COVID-19 cases and 910 deaths.

It may have been a slip of the tongue, or perhaps a bit of miscommunication in a new administration.

Japan's government said Tuesday it has decided to start releasing massive amounts of radioactive water stored in tanks at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant in two years after treatment.