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More than 70 people in close contact with the 42-year-old, who had bought two dead marmots before he fell ill, will now be tested and undergo quarantine.

Police and paramedics were responding Wednesday to a train derailment in northeast Scotland, and smoke could be seen rising from the site.

The parents of a Black teenager who was killed in a 1993 racist attack have vowed to keep fighting for justice despite a decision by Londons police force to classify their murder investigation as inactive.

Antagonisms between China and the United States didnt stop Beijing's burger lovers from standing in line for hours for a bite of Shake Shack's snacks.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's pick of Kamala Harris as his running mate showed his commitment to Black voters, AfricanAmerican activists said, but they warned it would not guarantee him the support he needs to win.

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Dr Sarala Gopalan said the family had been up since 4 am, which is when they first received the news about Harris becoming a vice-presidential candidate.

Young people in the South Pacific islands of Bougainville are seizing the opportunity to help reshape the future of the autonomous region of Papua New Guinea as they head to the polls this month to elect a new leader.

One of the countrys largest egg producers illegally inflated prices when the pandemic hit New York, taking in $4 million as it charged up to four times more per carton, state Attorney General Letitia James charged in a lawsuit Tuesday.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack.

The World Health Organization has not received enough information on the Russian COVID19 vaccine to evaluate it, the assistant director of its regional branch, the Pan American Health Organization, Jarbas Barbosa, said on Tuesday.

U.S. appeals court judges on Tuesday signaled skepticism toward a bid by President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn to compel a federal judge to immediately drop the criminal case against him as the Justice Department has dema...

Amid widespread protests and unrest over the police killings of Black Americans, a national commemoration of the 1963 civil rights March on Washington is being reconfigured to comply with coronavirus protocols in the District of Columbia.

Two people are now confirmed dead following a natural gas explosion that destroyed three row houses in Baltimore and sent seven people to the hospital, authorities said Tuesday.

Dozens of Palestinians protested outside the German diplomatic office in the West Bank on Tuesday, seeking to draw attention to Israel's arrest of a leading coordinator of the Palestinianled boycott movement against Israel.

Hong Kong's Apple Daily tabloid responded with defiance on Tuesday to the arrest of owner Jimmy Lai under a new national security law imposed by Beijing, promising to fight on in a frontpage headline over an image of Lai in handcuffs.