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Six more people linked to the farright Oath Keepers militia group have been indicted on charges that they planned and coordinated with one another in the attack on the U.S. Capitol, authorities said Friday.

Algerian authorities freed an imprisoned journalist and more than 30 other prodemocracy activists Friday, in a conciliatory gesture ahead of the second anniversary of their Hirak protest movement.

India's reaction came after Special Rapporteur on minority issues made adverse comments on withdrawal of Jammu and Kashmir's special powers in 2019.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Thursday that all power generating plants in the state were back online but hundreds of thousands of homes remain without energy because of downed lines and other issues after a ferocious winter storm.

Sheriffs deputies shot and killed a man who confronted them with two large knives at a home where domestic violence had been reported, police said Thursday.

A series of winter storms and widespread power outages gripping Texas and other states not used to such extreme low temperatures are creating big challenges in the nation's food supply networks.

London was never on Hong Konger Aragorn's wish list of places to visit, but now the 36yearold is trying to build a new life in the British capital after fleeing a security clampdown in his birthplace.

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz flew into a storm of criticism on Thursday after leaving his home state of Texas, grappling with a deadly deep freeze, for a holiday jaunt to the Mexican resort city of Cancun.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said Wednesday that the state must learn from the surprise tornado that struck Ocean Isle Beach with little or no warning, leaving three people dead and 10 injured.

The Roman Catholic archbishop of Detroit employed a more COVIDsafe method of ash distribution during a special Ash Wednesday service downtown.

The United Nations announced Tuesday it is releasing $15 million from its emergency relief fund to help Guinea and Congo combat new outbreaks of Ebola.

A federal judge in Virginia is letting a British family move forward with its lawsuit in the U.S. against an American woman who invoked diplomatic immunity when she was accused of fatally injuring a teenager in a car crash.

One million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine landed in South Africa last week and another 500,000 were due to arrive in the next few weeks.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) accused Israel on Monday of holding up the delivery of COVID19 vaccines into Gaza, where Palestinians have yet to receive any doses.

The European Commission is expected to propose reforms to an international energy treaty as early as Monday, EU officials said, after some governments have said the bloc should consider quitting the agreement because it could threaten climate goals.

Hundreds of people held a minute's silence in front of Serbia's government building on Monday to pay their respects to doctors and nurses killed by COVID19 and to demand more is done to protect health workers.