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A Nevada man was charged Wednesday with stealing more than 500 blank vaccine cards from a COVID19 vaccination center near Los Angeles, prosecutors said.

The sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline said Wednesday it is pulling the plug on the contentious project after Canadian officials failed to persuade President Joe Biden to reverse his cancellation of its permit on the day he took office.

Canada will soon unveil measures to crack down on online extremism following the killing of a Muslim family, a crime that police said was inspired by hate, a government minister said on Wednesday.

Colombia reduced the area occupied by coca across the country by 7% in 2020, although potential output of cocaine rose 8% to 1,228 metric tons a year, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said on Wednesday.

The United States has an opportunity right now to demonstrate to the world what American leadership looks like, Senator John Kennedy said.

Syrian air defences on Tuesday intercepted an Israeli missile strike over the capital Damascus, state media reported, while military defectors said the missiles may have targeted Iranianbacked militias.

Two special prosecutors were appointed Tuesday in the case of the Ohio deputy who fatally shot Casey Goodson Jr. in the back five times.

Sri Lankan police launched a criminal investigation, interviewing Russians Tyutkalo Vitaly and Chief Engineer Sadilenko Oleg and Chief Officer Peter Anish, an Indian, and seizing their passports.

It was the Alpha variant, previously known as the Kent variant, that forced the UK into lockdown in January.

So far the United States has contributed USD500 million in Covid-19 assistance to India

Peru started its vaccination campaign on February 9, but it has been slow and has so far reached five percent of the adult population with at least one shot.

On Sunday, in a key blow to Netanyahu, nationalist hardliner Naftali Bennett says he will 'do everything to form a national unity government with my friend Yair Lapid'.

An armed gang abducted students from an Islamic school in the northcentral Nigerian state of Niger on Sunday, police and state government officials said.

Thierry Henry is rejoining Belgium’s coaching staff for the European Championship where he will serve again as one of coach Roberto Martinez’s assistants, the Belgian football association said on Sunday.

The family of an American investor of Somali origin whose body was found with torture wounds days after he went missing in Nairobi wants Kenya's director of public prosecutions to run a separate investigation from one being done by police.

Texas Republicans dug in Saturday for a final weekend vote on some of the most restrictive new voting laws in the U.S., putting the last touches on a sweeping bill that would eliminate drivethru voting, empower partisan poll watchers and limit voting on S...