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A Chilean court on Tuesday increased the prison sentence for six former soldiers convicted in one of the most notorious killings by the former military dictatorship the kidnapping, torture and murder of folk singer Vctor Jara as well as that of a governm...

Moscow, Nov 22 (AP) A Russian parliamentary commission recommended Monday that a lawmaker in the lower house be stripped of his immunity as he faces charges over illegally killing an elk. Valery Rashkin, 66, first denied the accusations but later revers...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel talked on the phone with Belarusian opposition leader in exile Svetlana Tikhanouskaya about the political crisis in Belarus and the "difficult situation" at the border with the European Union, a government spokesperson said...

Ahead of the next month's UN Peacekeeping Ministerial meeting in Seoul, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix said he has two messages for India, which is among the largest troop-contributing nations to UN peacekeeping missions.

Four people were being treated in hospital in Rotterdam on Saturday after they were seriously injured when Dutch police fired shots during a violent protest against COVID19 measures, authorities said.

South Africa coach Jacques Nienaber bemoaned the three tries his side conceded in their epic 2726 loss to England nL1N2SB0BQ at Twickenham on Saturday, a superb seesaw battle that was settled by a late Marcus Smith penalty for the hosts.

Mexico expects the lawsuit it has filed in a U.S. court against prominent arms makers for negligent business practices will force the industry to change, in spite of companies efforts' to have the case thrown out, Mexican officials said on Friday.

Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro and Environment Minister Joaquim Leite both knew the Amazon region's annual deforestation rate had surged before the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, but kept results quiet to avoid hampering negotiations, according to three...

A Texas jury continued deliberations Friday in the first murder case against a man charged with killing 18 older women in the Dallas area over a twoyear span.

A federal appeals court has largely upheld a North Dakota law aimed at regulating companies that are hired to hold down prescription costs for insurers and employers.

The former Interpol president's wife has long maintained that her husband was purged because he had been using his high-profile position to push for change.

Austria introduced a lockdown for all those who were unvaccinated on Monday but since then infections have continued to set new records.

Alabama has set a January execution date for an inmate convicted in the 1996 shotgun killing of a man who towed his car after it broke down.

A North Carolina diocese and a former priest have been named in a lawsuit alleging child sexual abuse involving a boy at an elementary school that spanned four years.

A U.S. House subcommittee opened an investigation Thursday into whether the University of Florida interfered with academic freedom and free speech when it stopped three professors from testifying as experts in a lawsuit challenging Florida's election law,...

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland joined with Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday to mark the groundbreaking of the Vineyard Wind 1 project, the first commercialscale offshore wind farm in the United States.