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China's announcement follows similar moves by South Korea and Japan, the only other nations that offered significant funds for coal projects.

Two suspects in an attack on Jewish men outside a Los Angeles restaurant last spring were charged Tuesday with a hate crime, prosecutors said.

Britain will on Wednesday call for China and Russia to agree a coordinated international approach to prevent Afghanistan becoming a haven for militants, according to a statement by British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss at the United Nations.

Haiti has recorded its first outbreak of the fatal pig virus African swine fever in 37 years, the World Organisation for Animal Health said, fueling concerns about the disease's spread in the Americas.

Presaging hundreds of millions of climate change refugees, Turkey's president said Tuesday at the U.N. General Assembly that the world needs to find a way to contend with its existing refugees who are fleeing conflict.

The operator of a light rail train that struck the rear of another train in the Boston area in July had turned the speed controller to full power, according to a federal report released Tuesday, and the regional transit agency said it is moving to fire th...

An organization run by rapper JayZ has filed a petition seeking records from the Kansas City, Kansas, police department related to what it calls a history of officer misconduct within the department.

The top U.S. diplomat in El Salvador said Tuesday she sees a decline in democracy the country, where President Nayib Bukele changed his Twitter profile to read the coolest dictator in the world.

Last month V-P Kamala Harris's visit to Vietnam was delayed when multiple US personnel reported symptoms consistent with the syndrome just ahead of her visit.

Tunisian President Kais Saied said on Monday he had instituted transitional governing rules and would introduce a new electoral law, in a speech that came eight weeks after he seized executive power in a move his foes called a coup.

The Biden administration is relying on a contested Trumpera policy as it disperses thousands of Haitian migrants along the U.S.Mexico border near the small South Texas city of Del Rio.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a seniorlevel review of the investigation that found that 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children, were killed in an Aug. 29 U.S. drone strike in Kabul that the Pentagon initially said had killed an Islamic...

Lava flowing from Spain's Canary Islands' first volcanic eruption in 50 years has forced the evacuation of 5,500 people and destroyed around 100 houses but the streams were advancing slower than originally predicted, authorities said on Monday.

In one surveillance video, a hand appears from behind a Russian flag to stuff ballots into a box. In another, a woman is seen removing ballot papers from under her clothes and, with the help of another woman, puts them into the box amid sounds of giggling...

The Taliban education ministry on Friday ordered the reopening of boys' secondary schools while the reopening of girl's schools was still shrouded in mystery.

Some sources say the miscommunication highlights a now-pressing decision for the Biden administration as it weighs how to conduct future strikes in Afghanistan.