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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday called for "expeditious" answers from an investigation into the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man, after Rochester police put a hood over his head and asphyxiated him while arresting him in March.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem got some highvalue exposure to Republican voters across the country last week during her appearance at the Republican National Convention and during Fox News commercial breaks.

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi says he no longer has fever or aches from the insidious disease of COVID19 as he recovers in quarantine at one of his private villas.

A member of production on The Batman has tested postive for COVID-19 and the U.K shoot has been temporarily suspended.

Georgia's state election board on Thursday referred Election Day problems in the state's most populous county during the June primary to the attorney general's office for further review.

The Indian Coast Guard pressed into action three of its ships and a Dornier aircraft after the Sri Lankan Navy sought assistance to control the fire onboard the Panamanian-registered oil tanker New Diamond.

Four members of a Louisiana family were killed and a fifth was critically injured when a generator leaked carbon monoxide into their home, hours after they survived Hurricane Laura's deadly winds and storm surge.

Brown University rebutted what the school calls spurious conspiracy claims" as it responded to an allegation that it is failing to comply with a 1998 agreement ensuring gender equity in sports.

Japan's ruling party has yet to vote on a successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe but his loyal lieutenant looks set to win the post, the result of backroom manoeuvring and bargaining that began months before Abe said he'd quit over ill health.

The Czech Republic reported 650 new COVID19 cases on Thursday, its highest number for a single day since the start of the coronavirus pandemic

A U.S. Marine convicted in the 2014 killing of a transgender Filipino woman will remain behind bars while her family and the government appeal a Philippine court order allowing his early release for good behavior, an official said Thursday.

Afghan negotiators and senior officials were set to fly to Doha on Thursday ahead of planned peace talks with the Taliban, after coming to a compromise over the release of prisoners that was holding up the talks, diplomatic and government sources said.

The pre-pandemic female poverty rate in South Asia was projected to be 10 per cent in 2021 but is now expected to reach 13 per cent.

Amber Brown had climbed into a city bus before dawn, had driven her eighthour shift, and she was tired. But she knew she couldnt go home.

When Bangladeshi authorities prepared to enforce a nationwide lockdown in late March, three friends fretted: How would rickshaw drivers, factory workers and other working poor people survive?