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A new South Carolina law banning abortions will stay on hold following a judge's order on Friday to extend a temporary restraining order.

Explosions rocked local oil refineries near the towns of al-Bab and Jarablus, sparking large fires

The report was originally due to be published in two stages: an initial summary in February followed by the full text. However, they will both now be released at the same time, said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

He didn’t like golf and in July 2009, he called the game “a bourgeois sport."

The Japanese government plans to extend a state of emergency for Tokyo and three neighbouring prefectures to combat COVID19 until March 21, two weeks longer than originally scheduled, Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said on Friday.

Firefighters found Byun Hee-soo in her home in Cheongju after a mental health counsellor called emergency services to report that she had not been heard from for several days.

A swell of COVID19 cases is halting samba steps in Brazil's biggest metropolis while Argentina's capital tiptoes its way back to the tango floor.

Legislation seeking to regulate Utah's troubled teen industry has gained final approval in the House and is headed to the governor for consideration, weeks after Paris Hilton gave emotional testimony in support of the bill.

The University of South Carolinas first African American basketball star, a former NBA veteran running unopposed with the governor's backing, would appear to be a slam dunk for election to a full term on the schools Board of Trustees.

Myanmar's deputy U.N. ambassador, who was assigned by the military to head the countrys mission to the United Nations after the ambassador strongly opposed their recent coup, resigned on Wednesday, according to social media and newspaper reports.

Cornel Marculescu, the executive director of swimming's governing body FINA, resigned Wednesday after 35 years in charge in which the sport transformed its commercial appeal but was often troubled by doping.

Israeli authorities said Wednesday that a Libyanowned tanker suspected of smuggling oil from Iran to Syria was responsible for spilling tons of crude into the eastern Mediterranean last month, causing one of Israel's worst environmental disasters.

Tribal clashes in Sudans western Darfur region killed at least 10 people Wednesday, a senior security official said, the latest bout of violence in the restive region.

Top South Dakota lawmakers announced a proposal on Tuesday to delay evaluating whether the state's attorney general should be impeached until the conclusion of the criminal case against him for hitting and killing a man with his car.

At least 13 people were killed on Tuesday when a tractortrailer slammed into a Ford Expedition crammed with 25 adults and children in the dusty farming community of Holtville near the U.S.Mexico border, officials said.

Nearly a decade ago, the United States was touting Myanmar as an American success story. The Obama administration reveled in the restoration of civilian rule in the longtime U.S. pariah as a top foreign policy achievement and a potential model for engagin...