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A powerful typhoon, the second in a week, was barreling toward the southern cluster of Japanese Okinawa islands on Saturday, prompting warnings about torrential rainfall and fierce wind gusts.

A Kentucky congressman said a teenager charged with fatally shooting two people with a semiautomatic rifle during the unrest in Wisconsin showed incredible restraint" and acted in selfdefense.

The head of Rochester, New York's police union on Friday defended the actions of officers involved in the March arrest of Daniel Prude, a Black man whose death triggered protests, saying they followed protocols in using a hood to restrain him.

Rescue workers dug through the rubble of a Beirut building for a second day on Friday hoping to find someone alive more than a month after huge port explosion shattered Lebanon's capital.

More people are returning to work in London, data showed on Friday, an encouraging sign for Prime Minister Boris Johnson who has urged Britons to start commuting again to help the economy recover from its coronavirus crash.

COVID19 has forced the closure of a dozen schools in France just days into the new academic year, the government said on Friday, as coronavirus cases surge in parts of the country.

New York City detectives are trying to determine whether a motorist who drove into a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters in Times Square on Thursday night committed a crime, the city's police commissioner said.

Police shot and killed an antifascist activist in Washington state on Thursday night as they moved in to arrest him on suspicion that he fatally shot a rightwing counterprotester last weekend in Portland, Oregon, officials said.

A Dutch appeals court upheld Friday the conviction of antiIslam lawmaker Geert Wilders for insulting Moroccans in comments he made at an election night gathering in 2014. However, the court overturned Wilders' conviction for inciting discrimination.

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan said on Friday it has begun withdrawing its troops and police from the protection of civilians camps that continue to shelter more than 180,000 people two years after the end of the countrys civil war...

A Virginia city has officially renamed the cemetery where Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson is buried.

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus, has been diagnosed with the early stages of double pneumonia, ANSA news agency reported on Friday.

Police shot and killed an antifascist activist on Thursday as they moved in to arrest him for the alleged fatal shooting of a rightwing activist in Portland, Oregon, last weekend, officials said.

A city in eastern Congo has rallied in support of Denis Mukwege, the Congolese Nobel Laureate who received death threats in recent weeks after he called for justice over serious human rights violations.

Former Pakistan Army spokesman Bajwa, who also served as Commander of the Southern Command, rejected the allegations against him and resigned as special assistant to the prime minister on information and broadcasting.

The subject is serious: violence in French society. But senior ministers have been stumbling over each others words in a debate about how grave the problem really is and how best to describe what is happening.