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Californias top court rejected an attempt to make it harder to impose the death penalty, ruling Thursday in favor of the current system where jurors need not unanimously agree on aggravating factors used to justify the punishment.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran also told an audience in Lahore how he was made an English public-school boy and not a Pakistani through this educational system.

The U.S. embassy in Kabul advised U.S. citizens not to travel to the Hamid Karzai International Airport at this time, according to an embassy security alert issued on Wednesday.

Gov. Ralph Northam's administration received notification Wednesday that the Department of Defense had authorized the use of Marine Corps Base Quantico to house Afghan refugees, as well as a national guard installation in central Virginia.

A Spanish judge in a decision cheered by environmentalists has put a halt to backup plans for the construction of a giant telescope in the Canary Islands eliminating at least for now the primary alternative location to the preferred spot in Hawaii, where...

Lawmakers approved one-by-one 18 out of 19 candidates put forward by the ultra-conservative Raisi for the ministerial posts.

The Democrat from western New York was sworn in as governor in a brief, private ceremony in the New York State Capitol

Hashmat Ghani --- whose brother fled to UAE as the Taliban took over the reins of Afghanistan --- also dismissed reports of joining the Taliban, saying he has "accepted their rule" but "accepted not to join them".

Six of the 136 students kidnapped from an Islamic school in the northcentral Nigerian state of Niger have died of illness, the school principal told Reuters on Monday.

Former football great Herschel Walker has registered to vote in Georgia, a possible prelude to him running for U.S. Senate in 2022.

James White has been named Detroits police chief after serving since June 1 as an interim replacement for James Craig who retired and is looking at a possible run at Michigan governor.

Two newly married women found dead at a southern Utah campsite were remembered Sunday with a candlelight vigil as police investigate the slayings.

Syrian army units aided by proIranian militias have staged a major assault on an opposition enclave in the southern border city of Deraa in a bid to retake the last opposition stronghold in southern Syria, residents, army and opposition sources said.

That concern was underlined on Monday morning when a firefight erupted at the airport on Monday between Afghan guards and unidentified gunmen.

The tourist-pleasing spectacle was halted in March 2020 as Britain went into lockdown to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has signaled more hurdles for India's ambitious International North South Transport Corridor project, that cuts through Iran, Azerbaijan and Russia.