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Dina Boluarte says ongoing unrest has caused $1.3b (£1.56b) in damages to infrastructure and output.

In a sign of growing tensions, Rwanda says it took "defensive action" against a plane in its airspace.

Seven people were killed in Half Moon Bay on a farm where the suspect, who was arrested, was an employee.

In a distinguished 30-year career with London's Metropolitan Police, Dal Babu has seen his fair share of shocking behavior.

Tens of millions of people across East Asia braved a severe cold snap Wednesday as subzero temperatures and heavy snow brought travel chaos during the Lunar New Year holiday, with climate experts warning that such extreme weather events had become the "new norm."

Tate says there is "no justice in Romania" as he is taken for police questioning at a special unit.

Students say power was cut to prevent them showing the film which has riled India's government.

If she wins, Yeoh will become the first Asian woman to win Best Actress.

US officials helped avert a "nuclear conflagration" in 2019, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.

"If something happens to me, don't cry," Leonardo Hancco told his wife, Ruth Barcena, the morning of December 15 in Peru's southern city of Ayacucho.

New Zealand welcomed a new prime minister on Wednesday, six days after Jacinda Ardern's shock resignation ahead of an upcoming election.

Five crew members have been rescued and efforts are underway to save 17 others after a cargo ship capsized off Japan's Nagasaki prefecture on Wednesday, the Japan Coast Guard told CNN.

At least 157 people have died in Afghanistan's harsh winter, a Taliban official said Tuesday, with the death toll doubling in less than a week as millions face bitter temperatures with minimal humanitarian aid.

A US firm has regulatory approval for lab-grown meat and is aiming to sell it to restaurants soon.

In rural Shanxi province, the BBC found evidence of a considerable death toll from the virus.

The pop star joins a growing group of artists who have cashed out on their catalogues.

In a time when life expectancy in the U.S. is declining for the first time in decades and Americans can expect on average to enjoy even fewer years of retirement, Republicans are considering a radical plan to shrink the retirement window. House Republicans have been working out the details of their deeply unpopular plan to cut Social Security and Medicare in order to deepen poverty and shackle...

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Hundreds of child asylum seekers have gone missing since the British government started housing minors in hotels due to a strain on the country's asylum accommodation system, British Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick told lawmakers in parliament on Tuesday, amid calls for an investigation into the matter.

Several teachers in a school district in Florida are putting covers over books in their classroom libraries due to a vague but far-reaching law that restricts what kind of content they can share with students. Several social media posts from teachers in the Manatee County School District show coverings over classroom libraries, accompanied by commentaries from the educators themselves expressing...

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The Democratic Party’s conservative Blue Dog Coalition has been slashed in half due partially to a disagreement within its ranks over efforts to attract more members, Politico reported on Tuesday, with a number of corporate lawmakers insisting on preserving the Blue Dogs’ “longstanding legacy” and name despite its reputation as a “Southern ‘boys’ club’.” U.S. Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.)...

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