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Clergy and civil rights advocates in Kansas City are promoting a 21day cease fire with offers of conflict resolution and oncall spiritual counseling in a city that's undergoing yet another deadly year of gunrelated violence.

A Chicago nonprofit formed to highlight the lack of leaders of color within the city's arts and cultural systems has added a new program, aiming to imagine what the nation's thirdlargest city could look like without stubborn inequities in art, theater and...

England currently does not allow outside gatherings of more than 30 people or for more than two households to meet inside.

As NATO looks to the future, it is putting one of its most significant chapters behind it by ending two decades of military involvement in Afghanistan.

The northern highlands of Ethiopia became a global byword for famine in the mid1980s, when drought and conflict combined to create a disaster that killed as many as one million people. Now hunger is stalking the Tigray region again, and a senior UN offici...

A G7 plan to donate 1 billion COVID19 vaccine doses to poorer countries will have limited impact because it includes some previous pledges, but it still offers a small lifeline to a global vaccine buying system, some experts said.

Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori on Saturday said she trusts she will not be sent back to prison after a judge reviews her freedom in a money laundering case and insisted that fraud was committed by her rival in a recent election she narrowl...

Margherita Hack, who earned the moniker of “The Lady of the Stars”, was born in Florence on this day in 1922.

A daughter of alleged Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera was sentenced Friday in the United States to 2 1/2 years in prison for her role in Mexican companies designated under the Kingpin act, the U.S. Justice Department said.

Two trailer loads of smallcaliber ammunition bound for the United States were stolen by armed assailants on a highway in Mexicos most violent state, Guanajuato, the manufacturer said Friday.

President Joe Bidens nominee to oversee federal lands in the U.S. West is facing Republican pressure to withdraw over her ties to environmental activists convicted of spiking trees to sabotage a national forest timber sale more than 30 years ago.

On Wednesday evening, Livanesh Ramu posted a 19-second video clip of the incident on Facebook, which shows a bespectacled man ringing a bell - a common practice in Hindu prayers - while conducting rites outside his apartment unit in the public housing est...

The shooting -- in which the gunman also killed himself -- occurred in a Publix grocery store in Royal Palm Beach, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Miami, police said.

About 100 people gathered at a Minneapolis park Thursday before marching to Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchars office to promote shutting down reconstruction of an aging oil pipeline in northern Minnesota.

Park officials have launched the first tests of electric vehicles in Yellowstone National Park that are capable of operating without drivers.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he was working with international partners to create a financial mechanism to ensure important public services can continue to work in Lebanon despite its deep political and economic crisis.