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Louisville police released details Wednesday of its investigation into the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, a case that has sparked nationwide protests.

A sheriff's deputy who shot and killed a Missouri woman in June returned to work after an internal investigation found he had not violated any department policies.

Wednesday's Nobel Prize in chemistry was a historic first for women.

Two members of an alleged peoplesmuggling gang stood trial on Wednesday accused of being responsible for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese men, women and boys found suffocated in a stifling, airtight shipping container near London last year.

Principal Fazel Rahim says the 1,700 students in grades 16 at his Allah Gul Mujahid primary school just east of the Afghan capital have no proper classrooms, safe drinking water or sanitary restrooms.

A computer hacker who gave the Islamic State group personal data of more than 1,300 U.S. government and military personnel will remain in a federal prison after a judge rejected his request for compassionate release.

Indonesian police detained nearly 400 protesters on Wednesday, some armed with molotov cocktails and sharp weapons, on a second day of heated demonstrations over a controversial new jobs law in Southeast Asia's largest economy.

Spains prime minister unveiled a major plan Wednesday to boost his country out of recession by spending 140 billion euros ($162 billion) of European Union aid to reshape the economy, with the aim of creating 800,000 jobs over the next three years.

The fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the separatist region of NagornoKarabakh continued Wednesday morning, with Armenian officials saying the territory's capital came under attack again and the European Union calling for cessation of...

Irans President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday warned that his country will not tolerate the presence of foreign fighters terrorists that Iran has fought for years" near its northern border, where a conflict is raging between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

The European Parliament has voted in favour of a legally binding target for the European Union to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2030, against 1990 levels, according to vote results released on Wednesday.

Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is meeting top German officials on Wednesday, a day after sitting down with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.

Authorities in Sri Lanka on Wednesday widened a curfew and warned of legal action against those evading treatment for COVID19 after reporting an escalating cluster centered around a garment factory in the capital's suburbs.

The WHO has also been sharply criticised for its slow response, while Donald Trump has accused it of yielding to Chinese influence.

A boilwater notice was lifted Tuesday from the drinkingwater system of a Houstonarea city where water tainted with a deadly, microscopic parasite was blamed for the death of a 6yearold boy.

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny called on the European Union on Wednesday to take tough action against oligarchs close to the Kremlin as he continues his recovery in Germany after being poisoned by a nerve agent in the banned Novichok family.