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Two European aid groups said Monday that seven of the eight people killed by gunmen in a Niger giraffe park were aid workers working for them in the West African country.

For years, Yeom Chansoon was haunted by the cracking sound of a leather belt eating into the flesh of a fellow Korean mine worker being punished for trying to escape from forced labor in Japan.

Britain called on the Hong Kong government on Sunday to reinstate disqualified candidates and hold legislative council elections as soon as possible, in a joint statement with Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.

At least three shooters opened fire during a large, unauthorized gathering of people in Washington early on Sunday, killing a teenager and wounding 20 others, including a critically injured police officer, authorities said.

The leader of Germany's biggest farright party has welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw thousands of American troops from the European Union country.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene is running for Congress and is unrepentant about her racist rhetoric and support for the QAnon conspiracy theory.

Hospitals and schools, then shattered and bent water pipes, then the crater that once was Lebanon's port.

An Afghan grand assembly, known as the Loya Jirga, on Sunday approved the release of 400 "hardcore" Taliban prisoners, a decision endorsed by President Ashraf Ghani, paving the way for peace talks between the government and the insurgents aimed at ending...

One person was killed and 34 injured early on Sunday when a bus carrying Polish passengers ran off a motorway in Hungary into a ditch, a spokesman for the national emergency services said.

Afghanistan's grand assembly, or Loya Jirga, on Sunday approved the release of 400 "hardcore" Taliban prisoners, paving the way for the beginning of peace talks aimed at ending more than 19 years of war.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will refrain from visiting the Yasukuni shrine for war dead on the 75th anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War Two, Jiji news agency said on Sunday, but will make an offering on the emotive day, as he has done in the past.

More than a week of torrential rain in South Korea has left at least 30 dead and 12 missing in landslides, floods and other incidents, the government said Sunday while warning of further downpour.

The grim milestone comes as President Donald Trump signed executive orders intended to provide economic relief to Americans hurt by the coronavirus pandemic after the White House failed to reach a deal with Congress.

President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Saturday partly restoring enhanced unemployment payments to the tens of millions of Americans who lost jobs in the coronavirus pandemic, as the United States marked a grim milestone of 5 million cases.

President Donald Trump on Saturday plans to sign an executive order intended to provide economic relief to Americans hurt by the coronavirus pandemic after the White House failed to reach a deal with Congress, a White House source said.