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A car chase and shootout between gang members and law enforcement near Mexico's northern border left three members of the powerful Gulf Cartel dead along with one bystander, officials said on Saturday.

France is disappointed by the pace of negotiations with Britain on settling a row about postBrexit fishing rights but talks are set to continue on Monday, the head of a French fishing association said on Saturday.

Upwards of 10,000 sequoia trees weakened by wildfires, drought, disease or age must be removed in California, work that will keep a nearby highway closed to visitors who seek the worlds two largest sequoia trees.

Drought fueled by climate change has dropped Lake Tahoe below its natural rim and halted flows into the Truckee River, an historically cyclical event thats occurring sooner and more often than it used to raising fears about what might be in store for the...

Canada has scrapped an official advisory urging its citizens to shun nonessential foreign travel, given its successful campaign to inoculate people against COVID19, the country's top medical officer said on Friday.

A former Wisconsin high school teacher accused of secretly videotaping undressed students during field trips was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison after reaching a plea deal with federal prosecutors.

The attackers randomly shot some victims and stabbed others with knives at the Balukhali refugee complex in Cox's Bazar near the border with Myanmar.

Britain's 95yearold Queen Elizabeth spent a night in hospital for the first time in years for what Buckingham Palace termed 'preliminary investigations' but returned to Windsor Castle on Thursday where she was in good spirits.

The FBI on Thursday identified human remains found in a Florida nature preserve as those of Brian Laundrie, a person of interest in the death of girlfriend Gabby Petito while the couple was on a crosscountry road trip.

The leader of the Christian Lebanese Forces party denied on Thursday his group has any fighters, rebutting claims by Shi'ite Hezbollah that he has assembled a militia as the fallout of deadly violence in Beirut last week continues to roil Lebanon.

French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Thursday that millions of lower and mediumincome motorists would each be given 100 euros ($116) in oneoff financial assistance to help them cope with rising gasoline prices.

COVID19 patients will keep crowding hospital intensive care units (ICUs) in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan well into next year without government orders to limit public mixing, modelling data showed on Wednesday.

A man has been arrested and charged with firstdegree murder in the nearly 30yearold murder of a woman at a suburban Chicago YMCA.

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he is concerned about Chinese hypersonic missiles, days after a media report that Beijing had tested a nuclearcapable hypersonic glide weapon.

A group of Oklahoma students and educators on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a law that bans the teaching of certain concepts of race and racism.

British foreign minister Liz Truss will travel to Saudi Arabia and Qatar this week, seeking to further the case for a trade deal with Gulf countries and deepen diplomatic ties.