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Canada will soon unveil measures to crack down on online extremism following the killing of a Muslim family, a crime that police said was inspired by hate, a government minister said on Wednesday.

Italian police have arrested a Chinese couple accused of running a leather goods business which exploited immigrant workers it employed to make handbags for a Burberry supplier, according to an arrest warrant seen by Reuters.

Friends and family of a young pregnant woman killed by a stray bullet during a police shootout with alleged criminals in Rio de Janeiro gathered to mourn on Wednesday.

Violence has sharply increased across Afghanistan since the United States announced plans in April to pull out all of its troops by September 11.

A Kentucky prosecutor who twice ran for statewide office was indicted on wire fraud charges stemming from an alleged scheme that funneled more than $365,000 from a delinquent tax fund into personal accounts, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Former President Donald Trump reached less than a million measurable television viewers over the weekend in his return to the public stage at a North Carolina political event.

As a student as Wesleyan, LinManuel Miranda began writing what would become In the Heights, the musical that would launch him as a playwright and performer and that would lead, two decades later, to Jon M. Chus upcoming lavish bigscreen adaptation. He was...

Israeli officials said on Tuesday they would allow a rightwing march in Jerusalem's Old City to go ahead next week under certain conditions, a day after police barred the event's route fearing it would rekindle conflict between Israel and Palestinian mili...

Nicaraguas National Police arrested another potential challenger to President Daniel Ortega on Tuesday, the third opposition precandidate for the Nov. 7 elections detained in the past week.

The decision was highly anticipated but also contentious.

India is the largest rice exporter in the world, netting $6.8 billion in annual earnings, with Pakistan in fourth position at $2.2 billion, according to UN figures.

Netanyahu is facing the prospect of an end to his 12-year run as premier after Israel's centrist opposition leader Yair Lapid announced on Wednesday that he had succeeded in forming a governing coalition following a March 23 election.

During a social media session, Dr. Kate OBrien said children should not be a focus of Covid-19 immunization programs even as increasing numbers of rich countries authorize their coronavirus shots for teenagers and children.

China has absolute control of the Colombo Port City, 700 km from Chennai, and a 99-year lease of the Hambantota Port as well as 15,000 acres of land around it.​

Salvadoran law applies one of the world's strictest bans on abortion with no exceptions made for rape, incest or when the mother's life is at risk.

A mother and metro Las Vegas authorities misidentified an 8yearold boy as a young homicide victim, police said Saturday after the boy, an older halfbrother and their father were all found safe in Utah.