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An abortion bill similar to one signed into law in Texas was filed in Florida on Wednesday that would ban most abortions in the state and would allow lawsuits against doctors who violate it.

Iran's foreign minister expressed a "very clear intent" to return to nuclear talks in Vienna, Ireland's foreign minister said on Wednesday after he met with his Iranian counterpart on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

Police have detained a passenger who took hostage the driver of a bus on a southern German motorway on Tuesday, Focus Online reported the police as saying.

An organization run by rapper JayZ has filed a petition seeking records from the Kansas City, Kansas, police department related to what it calls a history of officer misconduct within the department.

A 15yearold Virginia boy has been charged in a shooting that wounded two fellow students at their high school, police announced Tuesday.

At UNGA, Biden said that democracy will live on even if authoritarianism wants to announce the end of it.

A lawsuit alleges that Louisiana's largest electric utility used a bubble gum and super glue approach to maintenance and construction that left customers sweltering in the dark without adequate sewage treatment after Hurricane Ida.

Federal authorities said Monday they are looking into the shooting death of a Black man by a Georgia state trooper, who tried to stop the motorist last year over a broken tail light.

Hundreds of Haitians are scrambling to find jobs, food and housing after being deported from the U.S. to a country that is now more violent, impoverished and politically unstable than when they left almost a decade ago.

Four people whose bodies were found in an abandoned SUV in western Wisconsin were killed in St. Paul, Minnesota, where three of the victims lived, police said Monday.

Australia's decision to tear up a contract to buy French submarines in favour of American nuclear-powered vessels sparked outrage in Paris last week.

A vaccine summit being hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden must come up with a plan this week to transfer 100 million stockpiled COVID19 vaccines to poorer countries before they reach their expiry date, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said.

A Utah county sheriff said Friday detectives have determined there is no connection between the disappearance of a Florida woman who went missing during a crosscountry trip with her boyfriend and a stillunsolved slaying of two women who were fatally shot.

A longtime prison reform advocate asked a federal judge on Thursday to move him out of solitary confinement, claiming the punitive treatment violates his Constitutional rights.

The eight-member SCO grouping of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan is holding its 21st summit at Dushanbe.

The investigation also found "improper changes" in the 2020 report affecting the rankings of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Azerbaijan.