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Namibian President Hage Geingob said on Thursday that the southwestern African country must take care in its efforts to reverse the legacy of racist white minority rule, so as not to be seen as grabbing wealth.

Moscow may reinstate tough measures if its 13 million population ignores COVID19 protection rules, its mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Thursday after the Russian capital started to record increases in daily cases of infection.

The Republican seeking to unseat U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham has outraised the freshman Democrat in the final fundraising quarter before their general election matchup, as both candidates ratchet up their rhetoric in the campaign's closing weeks.

A new report on racial representation on New York stages has found that little has been changing there remains an overrepresentation of white actors, writers and directors.

Mexicos Supreme Court ruled Thursday the president can go ahead with a proposed referendum on prosecuting expresidents.

Pending a legal review, the North Carolina State Board of Elections is suspending steps to allow voters to correct absentee ballots lacking the required witness signature by signing an affidavit.

In graphic, matter-of-fact chatter picked up on his body-camera mic, a Louisiana State trooper implicated in the death of a Black man can be heard talking of beating and choking him before all of a sudden he just went limp.

Carnival Cruise Line is canceling most U.S. sailings through the end of this year, the latest sign that the cruise industrys recovery from the coronavirus pandemic could still be many months away.

President Donald Trump appears to have canceled a planned appearance in western Wisconsin amid calls from the city's mayor and the state's governor, both Democrats, that he not hold a rally amid a surge in coronavirus cases.

Refugee advocates, including faithbased groups that President Donald Trump is courting for his reelection, called on Congress Thursday to halt his administrations plans to slash the limit on refugees allowed into the U.S. to a record low, saying it goes a...

Amid murmurs of discontent in BJP's Bengal satrap, Shah along with Nadda held a meeting with the top brass of the state unit on Thursday and discussed various organisational issues.

A Delhi court Thursday extended till October 22 the judicial custody of JNU student Sharjeel Imam in a case related to communal violence in north east Delhi in February. Imam, arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police on August 25, has been booked un...

In the house where for decades she has bottled pisco, the grape brandy of South America's Pacific coast, Rosa Grados has thousands of stored liters that she has not sold because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Members of various students organisations held a protest at Delhi University's north campus against the brutal Hathras gang-rape and murder incident and demanded justice for the 19-year-old victim. A senior police official said 20-22 protestors were d...

The count of COVID-19 cases in Nashik district of Maharashtra crossed the 76,000-mark on Thursday with the single-day addition of 1,108 patients, the health officials said. The case count now stands at 76,984, they said.

Several parties and large gatherings coinciding with the University of South Carolinas football game had to be broken up Saturday, as people celebrated the first game of the season, police said.