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Afghanistan: 15 feared dead after 2 army helicopters collide in Helmand province

The group has carried out 575 attacks against Afghan security forces and civilians throughout the entire country in the last two weeks, said Tariq Arian, a spok...

Pope Francis meets acquitted Australian cardinal George Pell

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Supreme Court rules Trump administration can halt census work early

Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the high court's decision, saying "respondents will suffer substantial injury if the Bureau is permitted to s...

China to test 9 million after new outbreak

Russian Federation on Tuesday reported its highest-ever number of daily virus deaths, at 244, and a record number of new cases at nearly 14,000. In this pro...

Saudi Arabia tries and fails to join the UN Human Rights Council

The outcome of the vote was mostly preordained, with candidates put forward by regional groups that set forth the same number of candidates as seats. The Saud...

Death sentence would bring down rape incidents, law minister says

In Bangladesh the cabinet today approved the draft of the "The Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Ordinance- 2020" prescribing death as capi...

University of Montana celebrates Indigenous People's Day

For years, Denver was the site of protests over Columbus Day, with organizers arguing that the explorer was no one to honor. Columbus Day is being replaced by...

Trump's campaign loses election lawsuit in Pennsylvania

This time he addressed hundreds of red-hatted supporters who cheered "Four More Years" and "We Love You" as Trump denigrated Democrats and called for law and ...

Second World War bomb safely explodes in Polish waters

The detonation on Tuesday concluded the operation to remove the risky 5.4-tonne Tallboy bomb at the bottom of a channel in Świnoujście, a Baltic port city in th...

Stranded Tourist Gets Machu Picchu All To Himself

In a normal year, Machu Picchu receives around 2,500 visitors every day. Machu Picchu is the most enduring legacy of the Inca empire that ruled a large sw...

Ravalli County reports two more COVID-19 deaths, 49 new cases

Fraser Health confirmed on Tuesday that COVID-19 cases had been detected in staff members at the PICS Assisted Living Facility in Surrey and the Chartwell Carri...

Biden addresses idea of high court packing

I want to keep focused", the Democratic presidential nominee said in an interview Monday with Cincinnati's WKRC. For good reason: members of President Roose...

Texas woman found dead, baby removed from womb

According to KLTV , the attacker went to the hospital with the baby, who later died at the hospital. The victim's mother told Fox News that the baby had b...

Anwar stakes claim but palace says no list of MPs' names

Comptroller of the Royal Household, Datuk Ahmad Fadil Shamsuddin said in a statement today that Anwar had an audience with Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdul...

Portland Protesters Topple Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt Statutes as Racist

President Donald Trump, who has frequently criticized the protests in Portland , on Monday published a series of tweets about Sunday night's demonstration, ret...

European Union readies sanctions against Belarus leader Lukashenko

The latest round of sanctions is likely to take several days to prepare, but envoys said the travel bans and asset freezes were no longer conditional on the s...

Catholic school board makes change to remote learning model in Brampton

Wilkes-Barre Area Career and Technology Center, which primarily serves five Luzerne County Districts with half-day trade instruction while leaving academic less...

India's COVID-19 cases exceed 7 million: health ministry

Countries reporting the highest number of cases in the last seven days include India, the United States , Brazil, the United Kingdom and France, the World Heal...

Pinoy sculptor of Blessed Carlo Acutis image gets more work

A teenage " computer genius " could be on the path to sainthood after he was beatified by the Catholic Church . According to a report on the Independent, t...

Covid-19 : Malaysian woman among seven imported cases in Singapore

The Covid-19 case fatality rate was recorded at 1.54 per cent. India's Covid-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23 and 40 lakh...

Senators Question Amy Coney Barrett On Second Day Of Confirmation Hearing

Wade , Mrs Barrett said she would, as in other cases , consider the various factors usually applied when justices weigh whether to overturn a precedent. "S...

Trump Returns to Campaign Trail a Week After Leaving Hospital

The battle between the two candidates was thrown into chaos two weeks ago when Trump announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was subsequently hos...

Based Johnson & Johnson Pauses Vaccine Trial Due To Unexplained Participant Illness

However, COVID-19 has forced researchers to fast-track the vaccine - making process. The participant's illness is being reviewed and evaluated by an independe...

Texas Attorney General Receives Temporary Stay of Appeal

U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman's ruling blocked Gov. Greg Abbott's recent order that sought to limit counties to just one such location. The federal appe...

Herd Immunity is scientifically and ethically problematic

But his comments are "inappropriate" and don't apply to New Zealand and other Pacific countries where lockdowns have worked, according to epidemiologist Profe...

Mainland China reports first local Covid-19 infections in almost 2 months

In a statement, the Qingdao municipal health commission said that six new and six asymptomatic cases were discovered from a hospital that was treating Covid-1...

Facebook reverses stance and bans Holocaust denial content

Our decision is supported by the well-documented rise in anti-Semitism globally and the alarming level of ignorance about the Holocaust , especially among ...

California GOP says it owns mystery unofficial ballot drop boxes

In New York City, mail-in voting got off to a rocky start in September when a vendor sent out almost 100,000 absentee ballots with the wrong names and addresses...

Fauci calls White House ceremony a super-spreader event

His rival in next month's presidential election, Joe Biden , has been campaigning in Pennsylvania. He has talked up the prospects of a vaccine becoming availab...

Stearns County Reports 31 New Cases of COVID-19 Monday

According to the Kansas Department of Health & Environment, there are now 67,862 cases and 771 deaths statewide. "The mitigation efforts in place now are essent...

Power restored in most areas, trains return to normalcy

In a video statement, Maharashtra's Power Minister Nitin Raut said maintenance work was on in Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company's 400 kv Ka...

Hurricane Delta hits battered Louisiana coast

By Sunday, the storm had been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone over the southern Appalachians, but still posed a heavy rainfall threat, the US National Hur...

Fire Breaks Out On Africa's Tallest Mountain

The Citizen newspaper reports that National Park spokesman Pascal Shelutete said the initial investigation found the fire started Sunday by porters servicing c...

Bangladesh to introduce death penalty for rape

Details of the amendment were not immediately available, but Islam said the Cabinet agreed to a proposal that trials in rape cases be completed in a speedy ma...

Trump accuses Biden of 'shipping jobs to China'

The Democratic presidential candidate's campaign does not allow a large gathering because of COVID-19 restrictions, with at the most a score of people sitting a...