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Babita Deokaran, who was a senior official at the Gauteng provincial Department of Health, was shot multiple times through her car door when she returned home in a Johannesburg suburb.

Australia's federal government warned state leaders on Wednesday that current emergency economic supports may be withdrawn when the country hits a 7080% COVID19 vaccination rate, even if individual states and territories decide to retain border controls.

A group of Haitian migrants was taken into federal custody after coming ashore Tuesday afternoon in South Florida, federal authorities said.

Nebraskas veterans affairs agency is facing questions from a state lawmaker after it published job advertisements for nurses touting the fact that the state doesnt require its employees to get coronavirus vaccinations.

Ten years after Zetas cartel gunmen stormed into a casino in northern Mexico and set fire to the building, killing 52 people, nobody has been convicted for murder or arson.

A Pennsylvania woman who pleaded guilty to coughing and spitting on food at a supermarket in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic was sentenced Tuesday to at least a year in jail.

The Taliban are currently working on forming a government, but two sources said there would be no announcements on a cabinet until the last US soldier has left Afghanistan.

The United Kingdom said late on Monday it has evacuated over 7,000 people from Afghanistan, adding that the evacuation process will run as long as the security situation allows and that no firm date was set for the end of evacuation flights.

New Zealand Football is reported to be considering dropping the All Whites nickname of its national mens soccer team because of its racial connotation.

The United States has enlisted the help of six commercial airlines to help transport people after their evacuation from Afghanistan as Washington seeks to step up the pace of departures of Americans and atrisk Afghans from Kabul.

He said would step down in November to allow a successor time to prepare for the country's September 2022 general election.

Experts argue that giving single women access to the procedure could ease the country's population crisis. Yet so far Beijing has refused to entertain the idea, fearing it could lead to women delaying motherhood indefinitely.

Hurricane Grace pummeled Mexico with torrential rain on Saturday, causing severe flooding and mudslides that killed at least eight people after becoming one of the most powerful storms in years to hit the country's Gulf coast.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the Marines were told the unidentified baby was sick and were asked to help.

A day after facing allegations that he emotionally mistreated a former fiancee, Republican Larry Elder scheduled two weekend rallies and showed no outward signs of altering the course of his campaign in the California recall election that could remove Dem...

As Australian health officials encourage eligible high school students to get vaccinated for COVID-19 before upcoming in-person exams, social media users are spreading false claims that their efforts involve forcibly injecting children.