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A human rights tribunal ruling ordering the Canadian government to compensate indigenous children and families in foster care for discrimination should stand, a federal court decided on Wednesday.

U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan discussed securing "tangible and lasting improvements" in human rights with Egypt's president and other top officials during a visit to Cairo on Wednesday, a senior U.S. official said.

A judge on Wednesday finalized an outofcourt settlement between former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and a man who alleged that Hastert sexually abused him decades ago.

Around threefourths of Venezuelans now live in extreme poverty as the onceprosperous OPEC nation's hyperinflationary economic collapse continued for a seventh straight year, according to a study published on Wednesday.

The Afghanistan airspace was declared ‘uncontrolled’ and was closed for civilian flights on August 16 after the Taliban takeover of Kabul.

The carrier said it would start on Tuesday the process of firing 593 employees who decided not to get vaccinated.

South Dakota's attorney general said Tuesday he is reviewing concerns from state lawmakers over a meeting Gov. Kristi Noem held last year that included both her daughter and a state employee who was overseeing her daughter's application to become a certif...

As her beloved grandmothers health declined, Lauren Pfenning's family insisted that she get a COVID19 vaccine before paying her a final visit.

A former nurse charged in the death of a teenager who was restrained at a Michigan youth home has been placed on probation for 18 months.

A former juvenile court judge in Wisconsin pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to two counts of distributing child pornography.

The country's biggest airshow, in the southern coastal city of Zhuhai, comes as Beijing pushes to meet a 2035 deadline to retool its military for modern warfare.

A federal appeals court said Monday that it will wait until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a case that seeks to overturn its landmark decision guaranteeing a womans right to an abortion before weighing in on a restrictive Georgia abortion law that a lowe...

Guinea's junta said on Monday its members are barred from standing in the next national or local elections, and that it will agree on the length of transition to elections with an 81member Transitional National Council (TNC).

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis asked Florida's secretary of state to investigate Facebook on Monday based on a news article that reported the social media company gives preferential treatment to politicians, celebrities, professional athletes and other prom...

Seven Venezuelan oil workers have been detained by military counterintelligence officers following an outage at a unit of state oil company PDVSA's 310,000 barrelperday (bpd) Cardon refinery, according to eight sources familiar with the matter.

The final chunk of a cargo ship that capsized two years ago along the Georgia coast is awaiting removal from the water.