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An 11thhour deal was reached Saturday, averting a strike of film and television crews that would have seen some 60,000 behindthescenes workers walk off their jobs and would have frozen productions in Hollywood and across the U.S.

Syria accused Israeli forces on Saturday of shooting dead Medhat AlSaleh, a former member of Syrian parliament who had spent 12 years in jail in Israel, staterun television AlEkhbariya quoted the cabinet as saying.

More than a thousand people outraged over ongoing power outages in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico prepared to march Friday to decry how the lack of electricity has affected their health, work and childrens schooling.

Leftwing guerrillas from the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Colombia have claimed responsibility for a Friday morning attack against a pipeline used to transport crude to the country's most important refinery, located in the city of Barrancabermeja.

An FDA advisory panel unanimously recommended a half-dose booster of the similar Moderna vaccine for the same groups.

Police officers in Chicago will not be ordered to go home if they defy the city's requirement that they report their COVID19 vaccination status or be placed on unpaid leave, police leaders and Chicago's mayor said Thursday.

Two Yanomami children drowned in a river on their reservation where illegal gold miners operate a dredger, an indigenous leader said on Thursday, alleging the boys were sucked into the machine as they played.

The wreck of a storied military ship that served in two World Wars, performed patrols in waters off Alaska for decades, and at one point was captained by the first Black man to command a U.S. government vessel has been found, the Coast Guard said Thursday...

A New York man characterized as a leader of the Pagans motorcycle gang was sentenced to 33 months, or more than two and a half years, in prison on Thursday for illegal gun possession.

Gary Paulsen, the acclaimed and prolific children's author who often drew upon his rural affinities and wideranging adventures for tales that included Hatchet, Brian's Winter and Dogsong, has died at age 82.

The dollar was slightly lower on Thursday in choppy trading, having erased most of its early session losses, as investors bet the Federal Reserve would begin tapering its asset purchases next month and attention turned to the timing of interest rate hikes...

Mexico's president on Wednesday hailed a U.S. decision to open their shared border in November after more than 18 months of pandemic restrictions, though millions of Mexicans inoculated with Chinese and Russian vaccines face being shut out.

One Syrian soldier was killed and three others wounded in an Israeli air attack on Syria's Palmyra area in the province of Homs on Wednesday evening, the Syrian defense ministry said.

Syrian air defenses responded Wednesday to an Israeli airstrike targeting areas close to the historic Syrian town of Palmyra in the central province of Homs, state television reported.

Nigeria will require civil servants to show proof of vaccination against COVID19 or a negative test for the disease to gain access to their offices from the beginning of December, a presidential committee said on Wednesday.

At least three of the officials involved in organizing and running the Jan 6. rally that preceded the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol are handing over documents in response to subpoenas from the House committee investigating the attack.