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The two suspected drug dealers killed on Thursday had apparently arrived at the beach in front of the Azul Beach Resort claiming it was now their territory.

The Japanese government and ruling coalition have agreed to provide a cash payout of 100,000 yen ($878.73) to all children as part of an economic stimulus package to weather the pain of COVID19 pandemic, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Friday.

Ethiopias Tigray forces are joining with other armed and opposition groups in an alliance against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to seek a political transition after a year of devastating war, organizers said Thursday evening.

Two suspected drug dealers were killed Thursday in Mexicos Caribbean coast resort of Puerto Morelos, after gunmen from competing gangs staged a dramatic shootout near upscale hotels popular with foreign tourists.

Ruth Ann Minner, a sharecroppers daughter who became the only woman to serve as Delawares governor, has died. She was 86.

The U.S. embassy in Mexico said on Thursday consulate officials were looking into social media reports of shots being fired at a hotel in the beach resort of Cancun.

Brazil held its muchanticipated auction for buildout of the nations fifthgeneration wireless network on Thursday, with the open question of whether China's Huawei telecommunications company will be involved.

Square Inc reported a nearly 60% rise in thirdquarter gross profit on Thursday, fueled by a jump in bitcoin transactions on its peertopeer payment service Cash App.

Gunmen killed 69 people including a mayor in an attack in a remote area of southwest Niger, the interior minister said on Thursday, part of a wave of violence against civilians that has swept the country this year.

A coalition of environmental and faithbased groups in New Jersey began an effort to drum up support for offshore wind projects on Thursday, particularly in coastal towns where there's been vocal opposition to the projects.

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday:

MercadoLibre Inc posted a 67% jump in quarterly revenue on Thursday as the South American ecommerce giant benefited from a surge in online shopping during the COVID19 crisis.

The U.S. State Department on Thursday announced a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of anyone with a key leadership position in DarkSide, a cybercrime organization the FBI has said is based in Russia.

New York Mayorelect Eric Adams said on Thursday that he would take his first three paychecks in bitcoin and that the city would become the "center of the cryptocurrency industry."

Apple Inc will remove its mask mandate for customers at many U.S. retail stores from Friday as COVID19 cases decline, Bloomberg News reported.

Japanese brokerage Nomura said it now expects the fiscal deficit to come at 6.5 per cent as against the earlier expectation of 6.2 per cent.