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The U.N. peacekeeping chief warned Friday that the crisis in Africas Sahel region remains volatile, with insecurity and instability seriously undermining prospects for development and many lives lost every day as a result of terrorist attacks.

New Mexicos largest electric provider and global energy giant Iberdrola are proposing more concessions as they seek regulatory approval for a multibilliondollar merger.

YoYo Ma spent the better part of the pandemic playing cello to an online audience seeking solace in his music.

The Biden administration is nominating its first set of U.S. Marshals, including the first Black man to serve as the U.S. Marshal in Minnesota, along with a slate of other historic firsts for U.S. attorney posts across the nation.

Pregnant people in Tennessee will continue to be required to wait at least 48 hours before getting abortions after reproductive rights advocates declined to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case, state Attorney General Herbert Slatery announced Fr...

Amy Carmichael lives more than 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers) from the Florida aquarium that housed Winter, the Dolphin Tale movie star with a prosthetic tail that died this week at 16. But Carmichael, who has successfully fought leukemia much of her life...

Making an Olympic team is hard enough. This winter, those who earn their spots on the U.S. squad might find it takes even more work to get to Beijing.

Center Ryoto Nakamura will captain Japan for the first time when it plays Portugal in the firstever test between the teams at Coimbra, Portugal on Saturday.

An Israeli court on Thursday upheld a ruling to return to Italy a sixyearold boy, the sole survivor of an Italian cable car disaster who was kidnapped to Israel by his grandfather, Israel's Justice Ministry said.

A U.S. Marine veteran has pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court to orchestrating a drugtrafficking operation that moved tons of cocaine from South America through Mexico and into the United States.

Five secondhalf goals helped Russia to rout Cyprus 60 in a World Cup qualifier on Thursday and widen their lead in Group H.

The latest team of astronauts bound for the International Space Station, three from NASA and a German crewmate, suited up for a planned liftoff atop a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday, despite rain and clouds at the Florida launch site that forecasters predicte...

A Northern California man who confessed to killing his wife and three children was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole.

Federal wildlife officials overseeing the world's only wild population of endangered red wolves announced Wednesday that they are abandoning a 2018 plan to limit the animals' territory and loosen protections for wolves who strayed from that area.

Cuba's foreign minister on Wednesday said the United States was behind protests over human and civil rights planned for Nov. 15 in the communistrun country, and alleged U.S.based social media platform Facebook was helping to promote them.

The United States is watching for signs that Russia may be using energy as a political tool in Europe's energy crunch, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday, adding that Washington was committed to take appropriate action, along with Germany...