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With winter and the rainy season only weeks away, aid groups are concerned they may not have time or resources for the mammoth job of repairing and rebuilding.

A Chinese group plans to try to recover a fighter plane from the legendary Flying Tigers group of American pilots that crashed in a lake during World War II.

Mexico has recorded 67,326 confirmed coronavirus deaths and 629,409 cases, the world's fourth-highest death toll from the virus that has infected more than 26 million people around the globe.

A Frenchman suffering from a rare and incurable condition is livestreaming his death on social media as he refuses to take food, drink or medicine after President Emmanuel Macron turned down his request for euthanasia.

Hundreds of high school students demonstrated in Bangkok on Saturday to demand reform of an education system they say is outdated in the latest of more than a month of antiauthority protests.

A federal judge temporarily barred Detroit police from the use of striking weapons, chokeholds, chemical agents and rubber bullets against demonstrators, medical support personnel and legal observers in the city's ongoing antiracism protests.

The tapes were recently declassified and released in May this year after Gary J Bass of Princeton filed a legal request for their declassification.

An agreement between Serbia and Kosovo to work on economic ties, hailed by U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday as a "major breakthrough," reaffirmed pledges to establish highway and railway links but left movement on political normalization on hold.

The warm temperatures in California come as the state is recovering from another heat wave in mid-August and devastating wildfires that have burned some 1.5 million acres in the last three weeks.

Bolsonaros first such comments came Monday, when he told a supporter, No one can force anyone to get a vaccine. He repeated it Thursday night during a live broadcast on Facebook.

Rapper and music producer Kanye West has filed to run for U.S. president on Kentucky's ballot this fall.

A Mississippi man freed last year after 22 years in prison will not be tried a seventh time in a quadruple murder case, his defense attorney said Friday.

Northeastern University said Friday it has dismissed 11 freshman students for the fall semester for violating campus social distancing guidelines after they were discovered in the same hotel room.

Two men clearing debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura have died from heatrelated illness, Louisiana's health department said Friday.

The Pentagon on Friday reaffirmed Microsoft as winner of a cloud computing contract potentially worth $10 billion, although the start of work is delayed by a legal battle over rival Amazon's claim that the bidding process was flawed.

WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for countries around the world to join forces to tackle the coronavirus on Friday, saying that "vaccine nationalism" would only slow the response to the pandemic.