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When Debra DeAngelo went to sleep, she thought the flames chewing through Northern California wine country were too far away to be dangerous. Plus, she had signed up for all the alerts that emergency officials pressed on people after years of catastrophic...

From the high balcony of a Singapore public housing block, an environment official steadies his mosquito launcher, the latest contraption authorities have devised to combat a record outbreak of the tropical disease dengue.

A 21yearold man told Reuters he was beaten and humiliated by guards in a Hong Kong prison during his sentence for possessing a Molotov cocktail at an antigovernment protest in October.

A family held hostage by drug traffickers. A violent police shootout on a busy street. A mother killed while shielding her threeyearold daughter from gunfire.

One of the four exMinneapolis police officers charged in the May 25 death of George Floyd is seeking a change of venue.

Just days ago, officials in Louisiana's Calcasieu Parish voted not to move a Confederate statue from its prominent place in front of the courthouse. Then Hurricane Laura came along and toppled it.

Several large U.S. states including Texas are not heeding new federal health officials' calls to reduce COVID19 testing of some exposed to the virus, joining a broad rebuke of the Trump administration by public health leaders.

Michigan's attorney general and secretary of state on Thursday were investigating what they called a racist robocall that falsely warns residents in majorityBlack Detroit who vote by mail that they could be subject to arrest and debt collection.

Dead dolphins that washed up in Mauritius near the site of an oil spill have so far been found to have wounds on their bodies but no trace of oil, preliminary autopsy results released on Thursday said.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has hired a new independent consultant to take a fresh look into its executive compensation after President Donald Trump earlier this month blasted the CEO as being ridiculously overpaid," the federal utility's board chairma...

A Germanflagged charity boat says it has been waiting for several days for port permission so it can disembark 201 migrants rescued in the central Mediterranean.

France recorded a daily tally of 6,111 new confirmed coronavirus infections on Thursday, the highest level since lockdown ended and the secondhighest ever.

Renewed clashes between forces loyal to Yemens internationally recognized government and their rivals, the Iranbacked Houthi rebels, left five fighters dead in the strategic port city of Hodeida, an official said.

The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank has been briefed on the situation, as have the authorities of the countries that were most affected by the data irregularities.

A businessman suspected of masterminding the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has told police that the exchief of staff of the former prime minister wanted her dead, a court heard on Thursday.

South African police have clashed with protesters demonstrating against the alleged killing of a 16yearold boy by local policemen in Eldorado Park, an area of Soweto near Johannesburg.