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In a rare public statement, the US first lady rejected as 'not true' the accusations made in an article published in The Atlantic magazine.

The fire on a large oil tanker off Sri Lanka's coast has been brought under control but is still not extinguished, the navy said Saturday.

U.S. officials have been in close touch with officials from the European Union about an agreement by Serbia and Kosovo to normalize economic ties, Richard Grenell, a special adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, said on Friday.

France recorded almost 9,000 new COVID19 cases on Friday, setting a record since the beginning of the pandemic, while more people were also hospitalised as a result of the disease.

Mainland China reported 25 new COVID19 cases on Sept. 3, up from 11 reported a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Friday.

President Donald Trump said Friday he intends to give the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, to longtime football coach Lou Holtz.

A federal judge said Friday that she would order the Trump administration to stop detaining immigrant children in hotels before expelling them from the United States, a policy enacted during the coronavirus pandemic.

Sudan's transitional government and a powerful rebel group that controls large swaths of the countrys restive south said Friday they have agreed to resume peace talks, a development that boosts hopes of ending the country's decadeslong civil wars.

Serbia and Kosovo announced Friday that they have normalized economic ties as part of U.S.brokered discussions that also include Belgrade moving its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem and Pristina recognizing Israel.

The head of Rochester, New York's police union on Friday defended the actions of officers involved in the March arrest of Daniel Prude, a Black man whose death triggered protests, saying they followed protocols in using a hood to restrain him.

A restaurant and onetime inn built along a stagecoach route in 1784 has closed permanently, another casualty of the coronavirus pandemic, and officials say it's been approved for demolition.

Russia's "SputnikV" COVID19 vaccine produced an antibody response in all participants in earlystage trials, according to results published on Friday by The Lancet medical journal that were hailed by Moscow as an answer to its critics.

Germany on Friday added its voice to criticism of U.S. sanctions against two top officials of the International Criminal Court, appealing to Washington to withdraw the measures and describing them as a serious mistake.

A senior Sri Lankan navy official on Friday said there is no real danger of an oil spill from the stricken supertanker MT New Diamond, which caught fire in the seas off the island nation on Thursday.

The mayors of Prague and Taipei announced new areas of cooperation for the two sister cities, including orchestra tours, on Friday as a Czech delegation concluded a weeklong visit to Taiwan that was bitterly criticized by China.

In the days that followed the Beirut port explosion, Shady Rizk played a video he had taken on his phone again and again.