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Maine environmental groups have requested that the federal government suspend the permits it issued to a billiondollar electricity project for Massachusetts residents, which Maine voters rejected in a referendum last month.

Several dozen Holocaust survivors marked the third night of Hanukkah on Tuesday with a menorahlighting ceremony at Jerusalem's Western Wall that paid tribute to them and the 6 million other Jews killed by the Nazis.

Colombian presidential hopeful Sergio Fajardo said on Tuesday he will ensure the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) issues safeguards to protect his political rights following a ruling against him by the country's comptroller general.

The chief of Britain's foreign spy service warned on Tuesday that the West's adversaries such as China and Russia were racing to master artificial intelligence in a way which could revolutionise geopolitics over the next decade.

A man accused of raping a woman on a commuter train outside Philadelphia while other passengers were present was ordered held for trial by a magistrate judge Monday.

The use of a restraint chair by an Atlantaarea sheriff does not amount to excessive force under any clearly established law and federal charges against him should be dismissed, his lawyer argued Monday.

Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, the wife of ousted former president Mel Zelaya, has taken a commanding lead in Honduras elections, capping a 12year effort.

Published by the prestigious Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome, the first image of the Omicron Covid variant shows increased mutations in the area which interacts with human cells.

San Luis was the eighth stop on a tour of nine villages for Francisco Paquito Gaitan, the popular mayor of this municipality perched in the mountains outside the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.

Israel on Saturday said it would ban the entry of all foreigners into the country, making it the first country to shut its borders completely in response to the potentially more contagious Omicron coronavirus variant, and said it would also reintroduce co...

Switzerland on Saturday widened quarantine requirements to stem the spread of the new Omicron coronavirus variant to travellers arriving from Britain, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Egypt and Malawi, where cases have been detected, its health minist...

Extortion of avocado growers in western Mexico has gotten so bad that 500 vigilantes from a socalled selfdefense group known as United Towns, or Pueblos Unidos, gathered Saturday and pledged to aid police.

The top U.S. diplomat for East Asia will visit Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand from the weekend after President Joe Biden pledged stepped up engagement with Southeast Asia, a key battleground in his contest for influence with China.

The top U.S. diplomat for East Asia will visit Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand from the weekend after President Joe Biden pledged stepped up engagement with Southeast Asia, a key battleground in his contest for influence with China.

Argentina's government launched measures on Friday to discourage foreign travel as a way to protect the country's thin dollar reserves ahead of heavy debt payments.

The Dutch government on Friday ordered further restrictions including a nighttime closure of bars, restaurants and most stores to stem a recordbreaking wave of COVID19 cases that is threatening to overwhelm the country's healthcare system.