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Abortion rights groups on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging a newly enacted Tennessee law that would require women undergoing druginduced abortions be informed the procedure can be reversed.

American R&B singer Akon is moving ahead with plans to create a futuristic panAfrican city, announcing Monday that construction will begin next year on the $6 billion project despite global tourism's uncertain future.

French President Emmanuel Macron returned to Lebanon on Monday, a country in the midst of an unprecedented crisis, for a twoday visit and a schedule packed with events and political talks aimed at charting a way out for the country.

A federal judge on Monday blocked U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees from conducting the initial screening for people seeking asylum, dealing a setback to one of the Trump administrations efforts to rein in asylum.

Comments by a senior U.S. official and moves by Britain towards the possible fasttracking of COVID19 vaccines show the West now accepts Russia was right to approve a vaccine as early as August, a Russian official said on Monday.

A Kansas man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in connection with the deaths of two people and the disappearance of two teenage girls more than 20 years ago.

One of three black bear cubs orphaned by the recent death of their famous mother was captured Monday morning and will be taken a rehabilitation center for the winter.

After years of legal disputes, officials with the U.S. Department of Energy and South Carolina have inked a $600 million settlement over the storage of plutonium at a former nuclear weapons plant in the state, the largest legal settlement in South Carolin...

Congolese Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege has urged European Union nations to bring people accused of war crimes and other major abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo to justice.

When the New York Police Department fired an officer last year for putting Eric Garner in a deadly chokehold, the officer's union argued that there was little, if any, precedent within the department's internal disciplinary system for such a penalty.

Czech Senate speaker Milos Vystrcil will "pay a heavy price" for making an official trip to Taiwan, the Chinese government's top diplomat said on Monday, prompting Prague to summon China's ambassador to explain comments it said "crossed the line".

Lebanon's prime ministerdesignate Mustapha Adib called on Monday for the formation of a new government in record time and urged immediate reforms as a step towards securing an agreement with the International Monetary Fund.

Sudans transitional authorities and a rebel alliance signed a peace deal on Monday following months of tortuous negotiations aimed at ending the countrys decadeslong civil wars, but other powerful armed groups have thus far declined to join them.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, one of major contenders for next premier, has indicated he would stand in the ruling LDP leadership election, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Monday.

The Saudiled coalition allied with Yemen's government said Monday it foiled two attacks launched by Iranbacked Houthi rebels, including an explosivesladen boat dispatched into the Red Sea near international shipping lanes.

Turkeys economy contracted by 9.9 % in the second quarter of the year from the previous threemonth period in the wake of lockdown measures put in place to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, officials figures showed Monday.