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El Salvador's next ambassador to Washington is someone President Donald Trump might remember from his days as a beauty pageant boss.

Federal regulators have given final approval for operation of a natural gas compressor station in Massachusetts that opponents have said is an environmental hazard.

A New Hampshire man who suffered serious spinal injuries when a stage diver landed on his head during a concert in New Jersey has reached a $2 million settlement with the show's organizer.

Cities around the U.K. imposed new coronavirus restrictions Friday as they raced to slow the spread of COVID19 with London at risk of following soon.

A federal appeals court on Friday revived a House challenge of President Donald Trumps use of Defense Department money to build a border wall after Democrats refused to provide funding he requested.

Two men face federal charges in South Florida for their part in a migrant smuggling operation that involved kidnapping and torturing Cubans and extorting money from victims family members, authorities said.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday rejected a new migration plan by the European Union's executive, saying it would force Hungary to welcome aslyum seekers, but he welcomed some other elements of the proposal.

European Union leader Charles Michel used the virtual pulpit of the U.N. General Assembly on Friday to lash out at Britain for its threats to renege on parts of the withdrawal treaty it signed with the EU and warned that the 27nation bloc won't back down...

Most of the destruction had taken place in the last three years and an estimated 8,500 mosques had been completely destroyed, the report said, with more damage outside the urban centres of Urumqi and Kashgar.

Thousands of Australian students on Friday protested to demand investment in renewableenergy projects, though COVID19 restrictions confined the events to small gatherings and online activism.

The worlds most famous sled dog race will go forward in 2021, and amid the ongoing pandemic, officials now are preparing for every possible contingency for what the race and the world might look like in March when the Iditarod starts.

The publisher of an online news site said two of the site's reporters were arrested during protests in Kentucky's largest city after a grand jurys decision to not indict officers in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.

Firefighters on Thursday said they had contained about half of a massive blaze ravaging Los Angeles County for nearly a month, as a fire season that has killed dozens across the U.S. West took another hopeful turn.

Cyprus is committed to reunification talks with estranged Turkish Cypriots but not at gunpoint, its president said on Thursday on a dispute which has deepened GreeceTurkey tensions and stymied European Union policymaking on Belarus.

AQIS was set up by al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in 2014 to expand the terror group's influence in the region.

Cyprus top oversight body urged lawmakers on Thursday to rethink new legislation that empowers the government to grant citizenship to family members of wealthy investors under the countrys lucrative golden passport program.