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President Gotabaya hopes for a two-thirds majority for the SLPP so that he can amend the Constitution to restore presidential powers curbed by a 2015 constitutional change.

North Korea declared an emergency and locked down Kaesong near the inter-Korean border in late July after finding a suspected virus case there.

The New York prosecutor who has been fighting, unsuccessfully so far, to get President Donald Trumps tax returns had better luck last year getting a bank to turn over his financial records.

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Harding Park is a public golf course with a history of elite champions.

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A lawsuit accuses an elite private school in Utah of mishandling a 2017 sexual assault allegation from a student with disabilities who endured bullying from classmates, including a reenactment of the rape during a school assembly.

India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador TS Tirumurti said that contrary to what Pakistan may claim, it has been unsuccessful in putting Kashmir on the UN agenda.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he hoped Belarus would hand over suspected Russian mercenaries to Ukraine for future prosecution.

Initial investigations indicate years of inaction and negligence over the storage of highly explosive material in Beirut port caused the blast that killed over 100 people on Tuesday, an official source familiar with the findings said.

France, Turkey and Gulf states are among countries offering help to Lebanon following an explosion at a warehouse in Beirut that killed at least 100 people and injured nearly 4,000.

Democrat Joe Biden's presidential campaign will blanket television and social media with $280 million in advertising by Election Day, the campaign announced on Wednesday, more than his rival's campaign has spent in total since 2017.

Another 11,915 tests were done in the country during the last 24 hours, taking the number of total tests done so far to 2,043,870.

Green Card, known officially as a Permanent Resident Card, is a document issued to immigrants to the US as evidence that the bearer has been granted the privilege of residing permanently.

Virgin Atlantic, the airline founded by British businessman Richard Branson, filed Tuesday for relief from creditors as the virus pandemic hammers the airline industry.

The Los Angeles Rams have started a scouting apprenticeship program designed to boost the aspirations of minority and female candidates for football scouting jobs.