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Last week, Ahmad Massoud had appealed to the people of Afghanistan to rise against the Taliban and join forces.

One legacy of the 9/11 tragedy is that today's skyscrapers can be emptied much more safely and easily in an emergency

A plane flying from the Turkish resort of Antalya to Vladivostok in Russia's far east made a safe emergency landing on Saturday in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, a source at the airport told Reuters.

The international parental kidnapping count carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a maximum fine of USD 250,000.

Oklahoma's Pardon and Parole Board will likely recommend that a highprofile inmate's death sentence be commuted unless two board members are barred from taking part in the decision, a lawyer for a county district attorney argued before a state Supreme Cou...

Love and romance were the dreamy threads that bound together Michael Kors' Spring/Summer 2022 collection, presented in Central Park in a show that emphasized the forced intimacy of the pandemic and the optimism of love in New York City.

The Biden Administration is suing Texas over a new state law that bans most abortions, arguing that it was enacted in open defiance of the Constitution and asking a judge to quickly declare the law invalid. The case filed Thursday by the Department of J...

A military helicopter crashed in northern Ivory Coast while on a reconnaissance mission near the border with Burkina Faso, killing all five crew members, the defence ministry said on Friday.

The joint statement was issued a day after the Foreign Ministers of Pakistan, China, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan met virtually on Wednesday at the invitation of Pakistan. They urged the UN to take responsibility for peace and reconstruct...

A police officer in metro Phoenix was charged Thursday with aggravated assault for his actions during an encounter four years ago in which he is accused of shooting a handcuffed man in the testicles with a stun gun.

About a third of the female service members in the Air Force and Space Force say they've experienced sexual harassment and many can describe accounts of sexism and a stigma associated with pregnancy and maternity leave, a study released Thursday has found...

A New Mexico police officer who adopted a child from a pregnant woman he found using heroin in what has been held up as an alternative to abortion is pictured in uniform on an antiabortion billboard without his permission, his superiors say.

The Brazilian Supreme Court's Chief Justice Luiz Fux on Wednesday issued a sharp rebuttal to President Jair Bolsonaro, one day after the rightwing leader escalated his feud with the court by vowing to no longer abide by one of its justice's rulings.

Salvadorans trying to pay for a cup of coffee or receive money sent from relatives in the United States using the cryptocurrency bitcoin continued struggling to perform transactions Wednesday, a day after El Salvador made it legal tender.

The Connecticut Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with whether a $20 million bond set for a former researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology accused of killing a Yale graduate student is unconstitutionally high and how state judges should...

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott said Wednesday he was incredibly disappointed by the allegations that three Vermont State Police troopers who have since resigned were involved in a scheme to create fraudulent COVID19 vaccination cards.