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Louisiana residents still recovering from the devastation of a powerful hurricane less than two months ago braced for another hit as Hurricane Delta steamed north through the Gulf on Thursday after swiping Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

Polands lawmakers have amended this years budget bill to include a deficit equal to $29 billion resulting from the national lockdown and the cost of financially supporting companies hit by antiCOVID19 measures.

The Kremlin said on Thursday that Kyrgyzstan, where Russia has an air base, had descended into chaos and that Moscow had obligations under an existing security treaty to prevent the situation from totally breaking down.

Prince William has joined forces with renowned British broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough to launch a new environmental prize that they hope will drive a decade of change.

Thousands of enraged students and workers staged rallies across Indonesia on Thursday in opposition to a new law they say will cripple labor rights and harm the environment.

The local authorities at first dismissed the reports. But amid mounting pressure, Russia launched a criminal probe into suspected violations in the use of environmentally hazardous substances and waste and marine pollution.

A Black police officer in Wisconsin will not face charges for the killing of an armed Black teenager eight months ago outside of a mall in a suburb of Milwaukee, his third deadly encounter with a suspect in five years.

Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly is leading Arizona's Republican incumbent Martha McSally among likely voters in the Nov. 3 elections, according to Reuters/Ipsos opinion polls released on Wednesday.

Police on Wednesday rescued 11 children and two teenagers working on cocoa plantations in southwestern Ivory Coast and arrested three farmers on suspicion of people trafficking, the police commissioner said.

A 5.0magnitude earthquake that struck in open water on Wednesday was felt in several Caribbean islands, including Puerto Rico.

A Texas prosecutor said he will have a grand jury weigh whether to indict a white police officer charged with murdering a 31yearold Black man, the latest shooting to trigger unrest over police brutality and racism in the United States.

Kaitlyn Yang knows its rare for women to work in visual effects but wanted to find out just how much company she has.

If Radha Blank had a tagline for her film, The Forty-Year-Old Version, it would be: You don't age out of your passion.

The court directed the federal government to bear the cost of the advertisements and the additional attorney general Tariq Khokhar was asked to pay the fees within two days.

President Donald Trumps accountant must turn over his tax records to a New York state prosecutor, an appeals court ruled Wednesday.

Tasmanian devils, the carnivorous marsupials whose feisty, frenzied eating habits won the animals cartoon fame, have returned to mainland Australia for the first time in some 3,000 years.