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The owner of a large oil tanker that caught fire off Sri Lanka's coast has agreed to pay $1.8 million to the island nation for its help in extinguishing the blaze, an official sad Thursday.

All the paintings, sculptures and other works that grace museums and galleries around the world are the visible tip of a huge art iceberg. Most of the institutions only have space to exhibit a fraction of their collections, meaning the majority of the art...

Thailands government lodged complaints with police Thursday against Facebook and Twitter, alleging they failed to comply with court orders to block content judged illegal under Thai law.

A top member of Poland's conservative ruling party says party leader Jarosaw Kaczyski is likely to formally join the coalition government in order to end a power struggle among its members.

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A police officer has been shot in Louisville, Kentucky during protests in that city over a grand jury's decision in the Breonna Taylor case, the FBI said on Wednesday."The FBI Louisville SWAT team has responded to an LMPD officer being shot and will conti...

The White House moves against the popular Chinese-owned apps TikTok and WeChat and the tough sanctions on tech giant Huawei highlight the struggle for technology supremacy between the two economic giants.

A 29yearold woman who suffered an apparent miscarriage but was convicted of aggravated homicide under El Salvadors strict antiabortion laws was released from prison Wednesday.

A power outage left parts of Venezuelas capital and several states in the dark Wednesday, residents and independent observers said.

A white Nebraska bar owner who killed himself after being charged with manslaughter for fatally shooting a Black man during May protests had been waiting to ambush people who were breaking into businesses and stealing, a special prosecutor said Wednesday.

Eric Trump must testify in a New York investigation into the familys businesses before the November presidential election, a judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting lawyers claims that Trump's extreme travel schedule on the campaign trail warranted a delay.

A Massachusetts man charged with killing an Appalachian Trail hiker and attacking another with a hunting knife in Virginia plans to use an insanity defense at his trial.

Despite the steady rise of COVID19 cases in a country already hardhit by the virus, Belgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes said Wednesday that mask requirements, some attendance limits and other public health measures will be relaxed as part of a less strin...

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Former Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard doesn't deserve any reduction of his fouryear prison sentence for ethics violations because he has not shown remorse and was convicted of serious crimes that undermined public trust, prosecutors told a judge.

Two oilrich Arab Gulf states suffered severe economic blows on Wednesday, as a major credit agency downgraded Kuwait for the first time and the United Arab Emirates acknowledged its economy would contract to a level last seen in 2009.