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Days of heavy rainfall have pounded Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, destroying dwellings and sending thousands of people to live with extended...
by JULHAS ALAM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - July 30, 2021More than 90 chief executive officers, including those at Apple, Amazon and Facebook, on Thursday urged Congress to pass a law offering a citizenship path to...
by JORDAN FABIAN BLOOMBERG (WPNS) - July 30, 2021Afghanistan's Taliban took responsibility this week for the killing of a comic in the country's south, raising the specter of revenge killings as the U.S and...
by KATHY GANNON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - July 30, 2021Frustrated by raging violence, the Mexican government is seeking to overhaul the Merida Initiative, a $3 billion U.S. aid program that's been the centerpiece...
by MARY BETH SHERIDAN AND KEVIN SIEFF THE WASHINGTON POST - July 30, 2021Japanese officials sounded the alarm Thursday as Tokyo reported record-breaking coronavirus cases for the third-straight day as the Olympics carry on.
by Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports - July 30, 2021The Biden administration announced Wednesday its first sanctions on Syria, targeting prison facilities and officials who run them as well as armed groups, fo...
by SARAH EL DEEB AND MATTHEW LEE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - July 30, 2021Ancient Roman mining galleries in a mountainous Romanian region that has been at the center of a long, fierce battle between a Canadian mining company and en...
by STEPHEN McGRATH The Associated Press - July 30, 2021A typhoon headed toward Tokyo was supposed to bring a respite from the oppressive heat hanging over the Olympics.
by The Associated Press - July 30, 2021Russian module docks at space station
by Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports - July 30, 2021Philanthropists MacKenzie Scott and Melinda French Gates joined forces Thursday to give $40 million to four organizations that promote gender equality. The r...
by Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports - July 30, 2021Fred Crifasi, a judge in Baton Rouge who has said Louisiana is "in a serious predicament" as coronavirus infections continue to spike, said he will allow som...
July 30, 2021Iran's supreme leader on Wednesday called the U.S. "stubborn" in stalled nuclear talks in Vienna for discussing Tehran's missiles and regional influence, lik...
by AMIR VAHDAT AND JON GAMBRELL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - July 29, 2021Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz was set to meet with his French counterpart Wednesday, amid the fallout over revelations that President Emmanuel Macron ...
by RICK NOACK AND SHIRA RUBIN THE WASHINGTON POST - July 29, 2021China's foreign minister met Wednesday with a delegation of high-level Taliban officials as ties between them warm ahead of the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan.
by The Associated Press - July 29, 2021Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike on Wednesday urged younger people to cooperate with measures to bring down the high number of infections and get vaccinated, saying t...
by MARI YAMAGUCHI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - July 29, 2021