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Costa Rican doctors began giving free coronavirus tests Friday to about 200 Nicaraguan migrants who have been stranded at the two countries border because the Nicaraguan government has demanded negative test results.

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Hong Kong's head of public prosecutions quit this week, citing differences with the city's top legal official, and after being sidelined from cases under new Chinaimposed national security legislation, according to an email obtained by Reuters.

A crash between a highspeed train and a maintenance machine in central Portugal killed two people and injured at least 37 on Friday, the national relief operations authority CNOS said.

Eusebio Leal, a historian and orator who befriended Fidel Castro and led the reconstruction of the crumbling historic center of Havana, died on Friday morning from a "painful illness," Cuban official media said. He was 77.

The artillery fire came after clashes between Pakistani and Afghan security forces at the closed Chaman-Spin Boldak border crossing, where crowds on both sides were waiting to cross for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.

The Australian government said on Friday it plans to give Google and Facebook three months to negotiate with Australian media businesses fair pay for news content.

Congress has awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, its highest honor, to surviving crew members of the USS Indianapolis, the ship that delivered key components of the first nuclear bomb and was later sunk by Japan during World War II.

A former college student from Texas who posed as a film producer has been sentenced in New Hampshire to more than a year in jail for defrauding several foreign citizens living in the United States.

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The head of U.S.funded global media has ordered an investigation into the posting of a video package featuring former Vice President Joe Biden on a Voice of America website and affiliated social media accounts.

The Minnesota Vikings placed linebacker Anthony Barr on the reserve list for COVID19 on Thursday, the eighth player they've designated since training camp began.

Two former highranking Mexican law enforcement officials have been accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes to protect Joaquin El Chapo Guzmans notorious Sinaloa cartel, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

A car bomb killed at least five people near a Syrian border town controlled by Turkishbacked forces on Thursday, Turkey's Anadolu Agency and the Syrian Observatory, a war monitor, said.

The European Union has warned member states of the risk of shortages of syringes, wipes and protective gear needed for potential mass vaccinations against COVID19 and urged them to consider joint procurement, according to an EU document.

Preliminary tests to explain the reason for hundreds of mysterious elephant deaths in Botswana point to a naturally occurring toxin as a probable cause, a senior wildlife official told Reuters.