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Georgia edged closer to ending a monthslong political crisis after several opposition parties signed a deal Monday that was brokered by the European Union.

New York's comptroller has asked the state attorney general's office to launch a potential criminal investigation into whether the governor used state resources to write and promote his book on leadership in the COVID19 pandemic.

Lawyers representing victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria filed a criminal complaint with Swedish police on Monday, calling for an investigation into the role of officials in President Bashar alAssad's government.

A woman who served a 10year sentence in U.S. prison for lying about her role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide to obtain American citizenship and lost her bid for a new trial has been deported to Rwanda, her lawyer said Saturday.

Only 30 mourners will be able to attend the funeral of Britain's Prince Philip on Saturday because of restrictions in England to stop the spread of COVID19.

The mayor's demand was fueled by the release of a video showing officer Eric Stillman shooting Adam Toledo in the chest following a foot chase that lasted a mere 19 seconds.

The ongoing battle between Yemen's Houthi rebels and government forces in the central province of Marib has caused 40 civilian casualties in March alone, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.

The nation's next big voting battle is underway in Texas, where Republicans are trying to outlaw 24hour polling places and drivethru voting as options, and to make it a crime for elections officials to mail unsolicited absentee ballot applications.

Germany's airline industry and main rail company said Thursday they aim to encourage more people to switch from planes to trains for domestic routes, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In a statement Tuesday, Bachelet urged states to take "immediate, decisive and impactful measures to push Myanmar's military leadership into halting its campaign of repression and slaughter of its people."

Federal prosecutors in the Brazilian state of Roraima are investigating reports that illegallymined gold is being exchanged for COVID19 vaccines in the Yanomami indigenous reserve, the prosecutors office told Reuters on Wednesday.

South Texas officials say they are worried about flooding during the hurricane season starting June 1 from breaches in a levee system that remain after border wall construction was halted.

The United States and NATO allies have been alarmed by the large buildup of Russian troops near Ukraine and in Crimea

An explosion was heard Wednesday near a northern Iraqi airport that is close to a base hosting U.S. troops, a statement from the Kurdish region's Interior Ministry said.

A suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a weekend traffic stop accidentally drew her firearm instead of a stun gun, the city's police chief said Monday. Although rare, a string of similar incidents has happened in recent...

Two former soldiers have been indicted on charges including murder in the death of another soldier who was found stabbed to death in his room on a Georgia military base, according to court documents unsealed Monday.