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Salvage crews have begun removing fuel from a lift boat that capsized off the Louisiana coast in a storm last month, the Coast Guard said Wednesday.

The Biden administration is throwing its support behind efforts to waive intellectual property protections for COVID19 vaccines in an effort to speed the end of the pandemic.

Facebook’s independent oversight board on Wednesday upheld the platform’s ban on former US president Donald Trump but called for a further review of the penalty within six months.

Republican lawmakers around the country are pressing ahead with efforts to tighten voting laws, despite growing warnings from business leaders that the measures could harm democracy and the economic climate.

Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg says those in power may have given up on the 2015 landmark Paris climate deal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times.

The Dutch king laid a wreath Tuesday at a monument to the country's war dead at a solemn commemoration ceremony devoid of the usual huge crowds for the second straight year because of coronavirus lockdown measures.

A Delaware judge on Monday ordered lawyers representing Tesla Inc. directors to turn over certain communications that CEO Elon Musk may have shared with the companys top inhouse attorneys before the board approved a compensation plan in 2018 that could ne...

Ohio State University said Monday it is planning an individual settlement program that could help resolve more of the remaining claims over alleged sexual misconduct by Richard Strauss, the team doctor accused of abusing hundreds of young men during his t...

The July trial for Ghislaine Maxwell on charges that she aided exboyfriend Jeffrey Epstein in the sexual abuse of teenage girls was postponed to the fall on Monday.

Boxer Félix Boxer Verdejo charged with killing woman pregnant with his child, who represented Puerto Rico in the 2012 Olympic Games, has been charged in U.S. federal court with kidnapping and killing a woman who was pregnant with his child, authorities sa...

Armed assailants killed around 30 people in an attack on a village in eastern Burkina Faso on Monday, four security sources said.

The USGS said the quake hit at a depth of 47 kilometres in the Pacific, off Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture -- near the epicentre of a huge 2011 quake which triggered a towering tsunami, killing more than 18,000 people.

Six American oil executives jailed in Venezuela more than three years ago on corruption charges were granted house arrest on Friday in a gesture of goodwill toward the Biden administration as it reviews its policy toward the politically turbulent South Am...

People over 50 can sign up for a jab from May 15, he added on Twitter, compared to an age limit of 55 currently.

Russia registered Carnivac-Cov in March after tests showed it generated antibodies against COVID-19 in dogs, cats, foxes and mink.

The United Nations team in India is supporting the response of the country's authorities to the Covid-19 pandemic by providing critical supplies