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Griefstricken Americans gathered at makeshift memorials around the country on Saturday to mourn the death of liberal, feminist icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, while politicians and Hollywood celebrities paid tribute online.

Democrats raised more than $31 million in the hours after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, demonstrating how the liberal icon's passing and the contentious nomination fight that lies ahead have already galvanized the party's base.

President Donald Trump on Saturday urged the Republicanrun Senate to consider without delay his upcoming nomination to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just six weeks before the election.

A partial lockdown aimed at stemming a sharp rise in COVID19 cases is set to begin in some of Madrid's poorer districts next week, but resident's of one of the worsthit neighbourhood's said on Saturday they doubted the new measures would work.

Walmart, Amazon and other corporate giants donated money to a Tennessee state lawmaker's reelection campaign after she used social media to amplify and promote the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to an Associated Press review of campaign finance record...

The chief of Irans paramilitary Revolutionary Guard threatened Saturday to go after everyone who had a role in a top general's January killing during a U.S. drone strike in Iraq.

The death on Friday of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, anchor of the court's liberal faction, could give President Donald Trump a chance to lock in a conservative majority for decades to come.

US President Donald Trump has said that the protesters, who went violent in the aftermath of the death of AfricanAmerican George Floyd, did not spare even the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Washington DC, describing the demonstrators as a "bunch of thugs".

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration says that on Saturday (2000 EDT/0000 GMT Sunday) all United Nations sanctions on Iran have to be restored and a conventional arms embargo on the country will no longer expire in midOctober.

Turkey rejected on Friday the human rights violations claims in northern Syria laid out in a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry and following criticism.

Protesters were gathering Saturday in Bangkok for the most ambitious rally so far in a prodemocracy campaign that has shaken up the government and Thailand's conservative establishment.

Although the Nov. 3 presidential election is fast approaching, the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves a vacancy that Republican President Donald Trump and the slim Republican majority in the Senate could quickly fill.

Joe Biden was speaking after Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said the chamber would vote on a potential Donald Trump nominee for the pivotal court position, despite the looming election.

Taiwan President Tsai Ingwen pledged deeper ties with the United States at a dinner for a visiting senior State Department official, on the same day China sent 18 fighter jets to harry the island to express its anger at the trip.

A progressive icon, Ginsburg- affectionately known as the Notorious RBG -- was a staunch opponent of President Donald Trump.

A former Southern California lawyer was sentenced Friday to life without the possibility of parole for strangling his exwife and throwing her body off a cruise ship in the Mediterranean in 2006.