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A car fleeing a police traffic stop crashed into a vehicle on Chicago's South Side, killing a 10yearold girl and critically injuring her younger brother, police said.

Jamaica's ruling party looks set to retain power by a strong margin in a general election on Thursday thanks to its steady stewardship of the economy and despite a recent resurgence of the country's coronavirus outbreak.

About 68,000 pieces of political mail were delayed for five days upon arriving at a Baltimore mail processing facility ahead of Maryland's June primary, according to a U.S. Postal Service audit.

U.S. President Donald Trump has urged residents of North Carolina to try to vote twice in the Nov. 3 election, once by mail and once in person, causing a furor for appearing to openly urge a potential act of voter fraud.

An independent panel appointed by the World Health Organization to review its coordination of the response to the COVID19 pandemic will have full access to any internal U.N. agency documents, materials and emails necessary, the panel said Thursday as it b...

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko promoted hardline loyalists to top posts in his security apparatus on Thursday in an effort to strengthen his grip on the former Soviet republic after weeks of mass protests and strikes.

Indonesia posted another day of record high coronavirus cases on Thursday, with 3,622 new infections as the world's fourthmost populous nation grapples to contain a spread that has caused the region's highest COVID19 death toll.

The weekly number of positive COVID19 cases in England in late August was the highest since the end of May, the latest data from the test and trace scheme showed on Thursday.

Denmark's leftleaning parties have agreed to change the country's sexual violence laws to allow sex without explicit consent to be prosecuted as rape.

As Japan's ruling party seeks a new leader to replace outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, health experts worry that his successor may prioritize reviving the recessionhit economy over its pledge to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

A pregnant woman said Thursday she didnt know she had broken any law when she was handcuffed by police in front of her children in her Australian home and led away in pajamas for allegedly inciting activists to demonstrate against pandemic lockdown.

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital, was poisoned with a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent in an attempt to murder him, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said.

Australia on Thursday reported the biggest oneday rise in COVID19 cases in more than a week, denting optimism that a stringent lockdown of its secondlargest city will soon be lifted.

A Thai court considered Thursday whether to grant a police request to revoke the bail of two top leaders of the burgeoning antigovernment protest movement who refuse to stop their public political activities.

Republican President Donald Trump's reelection campaign sued the Democratic governor of Montana on Wednesday in an attempt to halt an expansion of mailin voting in the run up to November's election.

A popular opposition politician in Venezuela broke on Wednesday with U.S.backed leader Juan Guaid, whose coalition has vowed to boycott the crisistorn nation's upcoming congressional elections claiming they're rigged.