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Ramaphosa announced that the maximum number of people permitted to gather outdoors will increase to 2,000 from 500

Russia is holding up the appointment of independent experts to monitor implementation of sanctions on four African countries, saying the panels proposed by the U.N. secretarygeneral are not geographically balanced and some members are not impartial, U.N....

More than 100 U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents evacuated to Abu Dhabi from Afghanistan aboard a charter flight are expected to fly on to the United States on Thursday, the State Department and flight organisers said.

Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday headed toward swift approval of a prison construction package that would tap $400 million of the states pandemic relief funds to help pay for building three new lockups.

Gasoline stations running dry in Britain. Power costs surging in the European Union ahead of winter. Forced restrictions on energy use in China. And rising prices for oil, natural gas and coal.

West Virginia's largest outdoor festival on the thirdhighest U.S. bridge next month was canceled Wednesday, a week after a group representing parachutists bailed out.

At least 24 prisoners died and another 48 were injured in a riot at an Ecuadorean jail, the government said on Tuesday, the third deadly uprising this year in the Andean nation's prison system.

In a surprising development, a Russian man who was imprisoned in the U.S. for cybercrimes has been deported to Russia, officials said Tuesday.

Around 1,000 migrants flocked to a sports stadium in southern Mexico on Tuesday to claim appointments for requesting asylum in the country as the national refugee agency grapples with surging demand that has overwhelmed capacity.

A Georgia city did not violate the constitutional rights of a Sons of Confederate Veterans group when it banned the Confederate battle flag from its annual parade honoring veterans of American wars, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

The Cherokee Nation and three opioid distributors reached a $75 million settlement to resolve opioidrelated claims against the companies, the tribe and the companies announced Tuesday.

All of the candidates support close Japan-U.S. security ties and partnerships with other like-minded democracies in Asia and Europe, in part as a way to counter China's growing influence.

Dujarric was responding to a question on Afghanistan's withdrawal from participation at the UNGA and that no one will now be speaking for the country at the annual gathering of world leaders.

North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations called on Monday for the United States to give up its "hostile policy" towards Pyongyang and said no one could deny his country's right to self defense and to test weapons.

Law enforcement officials on Monday said the gunman who killed one person and wounded 14 others at a Tennessee supermarket before killing himself had been asked to leave his job at the grocery store earlier that day.

A North Dakota stuntman known as the Flying Farmer has been moved out of intensive care after a dramatic crash on his first car jumping attempt in five years, his family said Monday.