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The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday denied former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvins request to have a public defender represent him as he appeals his murder conviction and sentence in the death of George Floyd.

Turkey on Wednesday ratified the Paris climate accord, joining the global fight against climate change weeks before the start of a key summit in Glasgow, Scotland.

The single-dose vaccine has also been approved in UAE as a booster shot.

The video was shared by top politicians and journalists in Pakistan, with credible inputs suggesting the ISI was not happy with the handling of the issue.

In a reversal of Trump administration policy, the State Department on Tuesday disclosed the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile. It said this will aid global efforts to control the spread of such weapons.

A potential plea deal that would have averted a criminal trial for an associate of Rudy Giuliani never materialized despite talks, lawyers said Tuesday.

An executive who spent billions of dollars on two South Carolina nuclear plants that never generated a watt of power, lying and deceiving regulators about their progress, is ready to go to prison.

A Drug Enforcement Administration special agent who was shot and killed by an Amtrak train passenger in Arizona was identified Tuesday.

One of Guatemalas most prominent judges faces the possibility of losing his immunity from legal action in a case that he claims is meant to intimidate the independent judges in a country whose judicial system is widely seen as under attack.

Florida is the last state to submit a plan to the U.S. Department of Education that's required before more than $2.3 billion in federal aid for Florida schools can be released, according to a letter sent to the state Monday.

Taiwan says they are an independent country and will defend their freedoms and democracy.

Haiti's top diplomat implored the U.N. Security Council on Monday for help tackling gang violence and crime, saying the existing U.N. political mission needs to pivot toward strengthening security and law enforcement institutions in the crisiswracked coun...

A regulatory commission in Mexico fined three manufacturers of tampons and diapers just over $15 million Monday for allegedly conspiring to fix prices for the products.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Mexico City on Friday to lead a delegation for highlevel security talks between the neighboring countries, the White House said on Monday.

A Texas agency on Monday approved a request that George Floyd be granted a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug arrest made by a nowindicted exHouston police officer whose case history is under scrutiny following a deadly drug raid.

Canada invoked a treaty with the United States and asked a judge Monday to suspend litigation over Michigan's effort to shut down an oil pipeline that ends in Ontario.