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Chilean presidential candidate Gabriel Boric, champion for the left and one of the top runners in preelection polls, said on Wednesday he had tested positive for COVID19 and would selfisolate, less than three weeks before the Andean country votes.

The post urged citizens to rise up and bury the rival Tigray forces who now threaten the capital as the country's war reaches the one-year mark.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, facing a probe over the slaughter of the country's entire mink herd last year, on Wednesday denied that she knew then that the government did not have legal authority to order the move.

A Kansas labor leader apologized Wednesday for remarks he made during a legislative hearing comparing COVID19 vaccine mandates to the Holocaust that killed millions of Jews.

The rate of COVID19 hospitalizations and newly confirmed coronavirus cases has been dropping in Idaho, but the numbers are still high enough to leave hospitals overtaxed, Idaho Division of Public Health Administrator Elke ShawTulloch said Tuesday.

A freight train in southern Chile was derailed and some of its cargo units burned by unknown assailants on Tuesday, officials said, amid tensions between the state and the local Mapuche indigenous group demanding the return of ancestral lands.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was released Tuesday from a Washington, D.C. hospital a day after falling and hitting his head while helping Howard University students who are protesting campus living conditions, according to a spokesman.

Akronbased FirstEnergy Corp., one of the largest public utility holding companies in the U.S, announced Monday it had reached a settlement with the Ohio Consumers' Counsel and other groups to refund its Ohio customers and lower their rates by a total of $...

Iran's foreign minister is at home in quarantine after testing positive for the coronavirus, the country's state TV reported on Monday.

Democrats have made significant progress toward adding compromise provisions curbing prescription drug prices to their massive social and environment package, two congressional aides said Sunday.

The United States was "absolutely in lock step" with Britain, Germany and France on getting Iran back into a nuclear deal, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday, but he added it was unclear if Tehran was willing to rejoin the talks in a "meanin...

A convoy carrying Borno state governor Babagana Zulum came under fire from militants this week, forcing him to cut short a trip to the northern town of Malam Fatori, three military sources and a security source told Reuters on Saturday.

Police officials in a Central Texas city refused to provide an escort for a Joe Biden campaign bus when it was surrounded by supporters of thenPresident Donald Trump on an interstate, an amended lawsuit filed over the 2020 encounter alleges.

Some 1,900 police officers across Puerto Rico went on strike Friday to demand a better public pension plan, authorities said.

Portlands badly damaged reputation marked by months of destructive protests, a homeless crisis and record year of homicides is hurting the standing of Oregons largest city, according to the city's main tourism promoter.

Ten states filed a lawsuit Friday to stop President Joe Bidens COVID19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, arguing that the requirement violates federal law.