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British ministers will consider easing postBrexit immigration rules to help end a shortage of truck drivers amid mounting pressure from supermarket chains, The Times newspaper reported.

Hundreds of parents in Mexico have resorted to filing for court injunctions to get coronavirus vaccines for their children after the government refused to consider vaccinating those under 18.

A judge sentenced an 84yearold man Thursday to consecutive life sentences in connection with a double homicide in northeastern Wisconsin, a case that had lain dormant for decades before investigators used a DNA sample to make an arrest.

A strengthening Tropical Storm Nora was rolling Thursday toward a hurricane hit on Mexico's Pacific Coast over the weekend and later on the Baja California Peninsula.

The United States pledged another $32 million in aid to the victims of Haitis 7.2magnitude earthquake Thursday, as the countrys interim prime minister defended his governments response.

Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order on Wednesday banning any state or local mandates requiring people to be vaccinated against COVID-19, and he called on Texas legislators to vote it into law during their current special session.

Federal prosecutors in Mexico said Wednesday that an opposition politician who fled the country over the weekend allegedly took a $525,000 bribe.

Black Panther star Letitia Wright is being treated in a hospital after sustaining minor injuries on the Boston set of Wakanda Forever.

In the week starting on August 15, 30,500 people had been vaccinated in 23 of the 34 provinces of the country, whereas the previous week 134,600 people were inoculated in 30 provinces.

A landmark decision by the Kentucky Supreme Court has largely shifted responsibility for the state's response to the COVID19 pandemic from Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear to Republicans in control of the legislature.

The dollar eased further on Tuesday as riskrelated currencies benefited from rising commodity prices and markets set aside concerns about the spread of the Delta coronavirus variant to gauge data that showed a U.S. economy in strong recovery mode.

The government said one of the evacuees on a British plane turned out to be a person on a U.K. no-fly list.

Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister has alleged that Ukrainian plane has been hijacked in Kabul, Russian News Agency TASS reported.

Authorities ordered more evacuations Monday near a quickly spreading wildfire that's one of several burning in northeastern Minnesota.

The board that oversees a park near Atlanta voted Monday for a new logo that excludes the parks giant mountainside carving of Confederate leaders.

A boat crowed with dozens of migrants capsized off Libya, and at least 17 people were presumed dead, a U.N. migration official said Monday. It was the latest disaster in the Mediterranean Sea involving migrants seeking a better life in Europe.