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The jury that will decide the fate of a white former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's death is unusually diverse by local standards, and that's boosting activists' hopes for a rare conviction.

Brazil is set to pass 300,000 COVID19 deaths on Wednesday, as President Jair Bolsonaro faces growing pressure to take the snowballing outbreak more seriously, slow its spread and ramp up the country's vaccination drive.

A look at whats happening in 2022 World Cup qualifying in Europe on Wednesday:

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani will propose a new presidential election within six months under a peace plan he will put forward as a counteroffer to a U.S. proposal that he rejects, two senior government officials told Reuters.

The rare public rebuke marks the latest setback for the vaccine which was hailed as a milestone in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

University of Iowa administrators can be held liable for monetary damages for improperly barring a Christian student group that rejects homosexual relationships, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, in a victory for religious conservatives on college cam...

Republican lawmakers in Georgia are backing away from two of the more contentious efforts to limit voting access as they advance sweeping changes to election law, changes proposed after Democrats won the states presidential contest and two U.S. Senate run...

Playwright Michael R. Jackson, authorcritic Vivian Gornick and fiction and nonfiction writer Renee Gladman are among this year's winners of WindhamCampbell Prizes, which provide $165,000 for each recipient to focus on work independent of financial concern...

Kosovo's parliament backed Albin Kurti as prime minister on Monday, more than a month after the small Balkan country held a snap election.

The far-right leader has defied expert advice on social distancing and face masks to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.

Confidence in the safety of AstraZeneca's COVID19 vaccine has taken a big hit in Spain, Germany, France and Italy as reports of rare blood clots have been linked to it and many countries briefly stopped using it, poll data showed on Monday.

New Zealand is set to announce on Monday whether it will open quarantinefree travel to Australians, but Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern indicated that such an arrangement may only be with some Australian states.

CJ Stander said this was his last game for Ireland. Then he acted like he didn't want to go.

The warning comes as the European Union struggles to speed up its inoculation campaign, just as many member states face a third coronavirus wave and renewed curbs on public life.

The 68-year-old Khan received a shot of the Chinese-produced Sinopharm vaccine on Thursday, as the country battles a third wave of the virus.

The quake hit at 6:09 pm (0909 GMT) in Pacific waters off Miyagi region with a depth of 60 kilometres (37 miles), the JMA said.