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A police superintendent in Jamaica told The Associated Press on Thursday that authorities have arrested a Colombian man they believe is a suspect in the July 7 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Mose.

Thirty Nigerian students abducted in the northwest by gunmen have been released, Kebbi state governors office announced Thursday, but dozens remain in captivity in the state.

The World Health Organization issued its plan on Thursday to prevent any further misconduct by aid workers deployed in its field operations after WHO staff took part in a major sexual abuse scandal in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor drew a reduced sentence of 57 months in prison the maximum possible for manslaughter after his murder conviction in the 2017 shooting death of an Australian woman was overturned last month.

Hundreds of school children stormed Democratic Republic of Congo's parliament on Thursday demanding the government raise teachers' pay and end a strike that has shut down lessons for more then two weeks.

Bail was denied Wednesday for a former Silicon Valley mother accused of hosting alcoholfueled parties for her teenage son and his friends where she encouraged them to drink and have sex with intoxicated underage girls.

A judge who ordered the president of Chicago's police officers' union to stop publicly encouraging his members to disobey the city's COVID19 vaccine mandate on Wednesday refused the union's request to recuse herself from the case.

Tunisia's foreign minister told the United States on Wednesday that President Kais Saied would take more steps to reassure its international partners after he seized near total control of the country in July.

The owner of a Louisiana livestock business has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $76,000 from a federal aid program to help compensate farmers and ranchers for losses from the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. authorities said Wednesday.

Merck has been producing the drug for months and has filed for U.S. emergency use authorization (EUA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Brazil's Superior Court of Justice threw out on procedural grounds an indictment of 16 people in relation to the collapse of the Brumadinho dam owned by Brazilian miner Vale SA, a disaster that killed 270 people in 2019.

Alberta held a referendum on Monday asking whether Canada should remove a commitment to redistribute wealth among provinces from its constitution, but the vote envisioned by Premier Jason Kenney as a tool to gain leverage with Ottawa could backfire agains...

Los Angeles County is seeking to compel psychiatric evaluations for Kobe Bryant's widow and others to determine if they truly suffered emotional distress after first responders took and shared graphic photos from the site of the 2020 helicopter crash that...

The humpback chub, a rare fish found only in the Colorado River basin, has been brought back from the brink of extinction after decades of protection, though work must continue to ensure its survival, federal authorities said Monday in reclassifying the s...

Jill Biden on Sunday returned to the South Carolina Baptist church where she says she began to repair her relationship with God following her son's death from brain cancer six years ago.

The chair of the Venezuelan opposition's negotiating team at talks with the government urged President Nicolas Maduro's administration on Sunday to resume dialogue as soon as possible, after the government suspended its participation this weekend.