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The South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia will on Sunday go to the polls to decide whether to become independent, with a vote in favour set to deprive France of its most significant territory in a region where China is expanding its influence.

The Fort Worth Police Department on Thursday fired a veteran officer for posting a racially insensitive meme on Facebook that drew wide public criticism last month, police said in a statement.

Over 2,000 Central American migrants heading to the United States from Honduras barged past armed Guatemalan security troops at the border on Thursday, as they sought to escape poverty exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.

Canadas national police force has eased restrictions that prevented bearded officers, including some Sikh and Muslim members, from frontline policing duties during the COVID19 pandemic.

COVID19 trends are all moving in the wrong direction in Wisconsin, where U.S. President Donald Trump will hold rallies over the weekend, while the pandemic's early U.S. epicenter of New York state reported an uptick of positive coronavirus tests in 20 "ho...

Ben Pogue, owner of a Texas construction company, provided the use of a private jet to President Donald Trumps reelection campaign last fall. Several months later, his father received a presidential pardon.

Three Pacific Northwest law firms have filed a class action lawsuit against the Pacific Power utility and its parent company, claiming they failed to shut down its power lines despite historically high winds and extremely dangerous wildfire conditions.

More than 1,000 Honduran migrants have crossed illegally into Guatemala in a bid to reach the United States as a major new caravan formed barely a month ahead of U.S. presidential elections, Guatemalan authorities reported on Thursday.

Belarus has started giving shots to volunteers in human trials of Russia's coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V, which received Russian government approval in August but drew considerable criticism from experts, as it had only been tested on several dozen people...

Britain imposed tighter restrictions on social gatherings in the port city of Liverpool and three towns as scientists reported Thursday that the number of COVID19 cases in England has quadrupled or more in the last month.

A special U.N. tribunal in Tanzania should quickly try elderly tycoon Felicien Kabuga on charges of financing the 1994 Rwandan genocide, survivors said on Thursday, after France's top civil court ruled he could be handed over for prosecution.

A sailboat believed to be carrying dozens of migrants has been located drifting south of the southern Greek island of Crete, Greece's coast guard said Thursday.

We may not need experts to warn us through all that jargon around curved paths, projections and modelling to figure that India faces renewed danger of another wave of the virus through passengers flying in from Britain and other Covid-high areas.

President Donald Trump's former campaign manager is stepping away from the reelection campaign days after he was hospitalized after Florida law enforcement officials said threatened to harm himself.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice on Wednesday released the training records for the three Kenosha police officers involved in last month's shooting of Jacob Blake, which sparked several nights of unrest.

The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of two types of fighter jets and several Patriot missile systems to Switzerland as the country modernizes its military, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.