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Nigerian security agents on Thursday rescued 187 people who had been abducted by armed gangs in the northwestern state of Zamfara, police said, after authorities launched a sweeping security operation against the kidnappers.

A federal grand jury has indicted a Minnesota man on charges of murder and other counts in the July killing of a Red Lake tribal officer who was fatally shot while responding to a call on the tribe's reservation.

Poland's highest court ruled on Thursday that some parts of EU treaties are incompatible with the Polish constitution, challenging a pillar of European integration and sharply escalating a dispute between Brussels and Warsaw.

President Joe Biden will expand two sprawling national monuments in Utah, the governor said Thursday.

An Oregon man said he survived a recent train derailment in Montana by holding onto a grab bar in the bathroom of a passenger car that ended up on its side and separated from the rest of the train.

Officials on Thursday identified the armed passenger who died in a gunfight after fatally shooting a federal agent inside an Amtrak train in Arizona as Darrion Taylor.

Afghanistan's previous government had organized the exhibit months before Kabul fell to Taliban.

A man accused of fatally shooting his estranged exgirlfriend, her husband and six children, including his own son, at a Houston home will not face the death penalty, authorities said.

U.N. SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres called on Ethiopia's government on Wednesday to allow the urgent delivery of humanitarian aid to millions in the country's north "without hindrance" as U.N. officials report deaths from hunger.

Guinea's military junta on Wednesday named Mohamed Beavogui, a former civil servant and expert in agricultural finance, as prime minister to preside over a promised transition back to democratic rule following a coup in September.

Britains Sir Ben Ainslie now has another title: Team owner in the SailGP global league.

Ellume's rapid at-home coronavirus test last year became the first to receive emergency use authorisation in the US.

Australia's decision under AUKUS to cancel a lucrative submarine contract with France in September and opt for US-designed, nuclear-propelled vessels incensed Paris.

Robert Altman, a photojournalist who captured San Francisco's burgeoning counterculture of the 1960s and became chief staff photographer at Rolling Stone magazine, has died. He was 76.

A potential plea deal that would have averted a criminal trial for an associate of Rudy Giuliani never materialized despite talks, lawyers said Tuesday.

Tom Brady wins in the television ratings, too.