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The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday it mourned the murder of a Mexican employee of the USDAs Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services.

Hurricane Delta made landfall in Louisiana on Friday, packing maximum sustained winds of 100 miles per hour (155 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, hitting a corner of the state repeatedly battered by storms this year.

The U.N. Security Council called on Turkey and Turkishcontrolled northern Cyprus on Thursday to close a beach in uninhabitated Varosha that was opened this week and avoid any unilateral actions that could raise tensions on the island.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Friday called on the international community to condemn the Trump administration's decision to blacklist Irans financial sector, the country's official news agency reported.

The Baltic country of Lithuania said Friday it had decided to recall five diplomats from Minsk, the capital of Belarus, with a government spokeswoman saying Belarus had demanded that 11 diplomats be sent home.

The World Food Program won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to combat hunger amid the coronavirus pandemic, recognition that shines light on vulnerable communities across the Middle East and Africa that the U.N. agency seeks to help, those...

A federal judge has denied a motion to extend voter registration even though a computer meltdown on the final day of registration might have prevented thousands of potential voters from taking part in Novembers presidential election.

A Berlin district has ordered a local Korean group to remove a statue commemorating women used as sex slaves by Japan during World War II, saying Friday it goes beyond what had been approved.

The day, as the name suggests, is celebrated to honour and create awareness about the postal sector. Each year, over 150 countries celebrate World Post Day in different ways.

China has joined the COVAX vaccine facility, becoming the 170th country to support equitable access to COVID19 vaccines to rich and poor countries alike, the GAVI vaccine alliance said in a statement to Reuters on Friday.

Bulgaria reported 516 new coronavirus cases on Friday, breaking the daily high record since the start of the pandemic in March for a third consecutive day, official data showed.

Last year, the award went to a more traditional laureate, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, for his efforts to end a 20-year-postwar stalemate with Eritrea.

A 17yearold accused of killing two protesters days after Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is due back in court Friday as his attorneys fight efforts to send him to Wisconsin to stand trial on homicide charges.

Madrid must enforce travel restrictions ordered by the health ministry to limit novel coronavirus outbreaks or the national government will impose a state of emergency that would force it to comply, the government said late on Thursday.

TROPICAL WEATHER-HURRICANE TRACKER Map. The following digital embed shows real-time tracking for hurricane Delta. It measures the scale of intensity, cone of uncertainty, location path and potential storm surge. This map will update throughout the day. S...

Louisiana steeled itself on Thursday for another in a recordbreaking series of violent storms as Hurricane Delta took aim at a corner of the state still recovering from the last storm.