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A truck driver from Northern Ireland on Friday pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the deaths of 39 people found in the back of a container truck last year in southeastern England.

Mali's West African neighbours on Friday told the country's junta to immediately transfer power to a civilianled transitional government and hold elections within a year.

When my birthday rolled around in June, I had to face the fact that, thanks to COVID19, I would not be having cake with anyone. Yet I went ahead and made the cake I really wanted a threelayer, naked strawberry chamomile cake.

The country reported just nine new cases on Friday, all brought from outside. Hospitals are treating 288 people for COVID-19 and another 361 are being monitored in isolation.

The three-time premier had submitted an undertaking to the court to return to Pakistan, citing his record of facing the law and justice, within four weeks or as soon as he is declared healthy and fit to travel by the doctors.

The U.N. human rights office said on Friday that the images of the shooting of Black man Jacob Blake in Wisconsin appeared to show that the police officer had used "excessive" force that was likely discriminatory in nature.

The backtoback presidential nominating conventions that concluded with Donald Trump's speech on Thursday showed both sides intend to fight for the sliver of independent and moderate voters that will decide the election, each with a wildly different strate...

Egyptian authorities said on Friday they had arrested the acting leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mahmoud Ezzat, during a raid on an apartment in Cairo.

The British government is encouraging workers to return to their offices amid concern that the number of people working from home during the coronavirus pandemic is hurting coffee bars, restaurants and other businesses in city centers.

The floodwater inundated houses in Shahgram and Teerat area of Swat district from where six deaths and injuries to eight people were reported.

An Alabama man has been indicted on charges he manufactured homemade and untested cancer drugs in his kitchen and marketed them to alternativemedicine doctors" in the U.S., Mexico and elsewhere, according to federal prosecutors.

The tiny Adriatic republic of Montenegro goes to the polls on Sunday riven by tensions over a religious communities law resisted by the powerful Orthodox Church and grappling with the coronavirus pandemic.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed intention to step down, citing his declining health, according to Japan's NHK television and other media.

Experts believe that a possible squeeze on Xi Jinping’s pet project will at least act as a speed bump in Chinese ambition of global dominance.

President Donald Trump prepared to attack Democratic rival Joe Biden in front of a large crowd on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday, as the United States struggles to address the coronavirus pandemic and a wave of antiracism protests.

The 17yearold accused of killing two people during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has hired a law firm whose clients have included President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and former Trump adviser Carter Page.