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Ecuador Couple Certified As Oldest Married Pair, Nearly 215
Julio Mora slipped away from his parents to secretly marry Waldramina Quinteros one Febuary day. Both families disapproved.
1 Killed, 3 Firefighters Injured After Sidewalk Collapses
A county worker was killed and three firefighters were injured after a sidewalk in a Florida suburb collapsed on Friday.
Esper Supports Medal Of Honor For Soldier's Iraq Heroism
Defense Secretary Mark Esper has endorsed awarding the Medal of Honor, the military's highest award for valor in combat, to a soldier who sustained fatal burns while acting to save fellow soldiers in Iraq in 2005.
Warsaw Zoo Testing Effect Of Hemp Oil On Elephants' Stress
Scientists at Warsaw's zoo have been taking blood, saliva and other samples from the zoo's three elephants in recent days to prepare to test whether giving them hemp oil can reduce their stress.
Pak Court Sentences 3 Close Aides of Hafiz Saeed to Over 16 Years in Jail for Terror Financing
The verdict stated that the three JuD leaders have been found guilty of offence of terrorism financing.
Dutch Government To Shut Down All Mink Farms By Next Year
The Dutch government is bringing forward the mandatory end of mink farming in the country by three years amid a growing number of coronavirus infections at fur farms, the country's agriculture and health ministers announced Friday.
Spanish Police Arrest Pandemic-denier For Inciting Hatred
Spanish police said on Friday they had arrested a man near the northeastern city of Zaragoza, who believed the coronavirus pandemic to be a hoax, for inciting hatred and violence across several anonymous socialmedia profiles.
UK To Allow Emergency Use Of Any Effective COVID-19 Vaccine
Britain is preparing to revise its laws to allow the emergency use of any effective coronavirus vaccine before it is fully licensed but only if the shots meet required safety and quality standards.
U.N. Rights Office Says Blake Shooting Was "excessive"
The U.N. human rights office said on Friday that the images of the shooting of Black man Jacob Blake in Wisconsin appeared to show that the police officer had used "excessive" force that was likely discriminatory in nature.
Katrina To COVID: New Orleans' Black Community Pounded Again
Levee breaches from Hurricane Katrina dumped six feet of water into the New Orleans home of Mary Duplessis and her husband in 2005. The house was uninhabitable. Rebuilding meant piles of paperwork in a mountain of bureaucracy. She didn't return to the cit...
Germany's Merkel: Don't Link Navalny Case To Pipeline Plan
Germany has a duty to do what it can to help get to the bottom of the apparent poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday, but she argued that the issue shouldn't be linked to the fate of a GermanRussian ga...
U.S. Flies B-52 Bombers Over Europe To Show NATO Solidarity
American B52 Stratofortress bombers were flying over all 30 NATO countries on Friday in an exercise the U.S. military said was meant to demonstrate the alliance's solidarity, amid growing signs of cracks.
Greece Starts More Training Exercises Amid Turkey Tension
Greece and the United Arab Emirates have begun joint air force training exercises in the eastern Mediterranean, in the latest buildup of military forces in the region where Greece and Turkey are at odds over seabed mineral rights.
Who Will Take over the Reigns after Japan PM Shinzo Abe's Exit? A Shortlist
Two recent hospital visits within a week sparked speculations on whether Shinzo Abe could stay on as Japan's prime minister until the end of his term as in September 2021.
Weakened But Still Dangerous, Laura To Pose Continued Threat
Remnants of Hurricane Laura unleashed heavy rain and twisters hundreds of miles inland from a path of death and mangled buildings along the Gulf Coast, and forecasters said an eastern turn would again make the storm a looming threat, this time to the dens...
Lawnmower Incident Results In Delaware Man's Fifth DUI Bust
A Delaware man with a history of drunken driving arrests has been charged with DUI again after authorities said he drove a riding lawnmower while intoxicated.