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In the southern Lebanese town of Haris, a newlywed couple is living in one of Safy Faqeehs apartments for free. Hes never met them before, and they arent on a honeymoon. Their apartment in Beirut was wrecked when last weeks massive explosion wreaked destr...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday she expected the coronavirus cluster in the country to grow further before slowing down, as the Pacific nation reported an additional 13 new cases from domestic transmission.

Wind turbines and solar panels produced a record 10% of the world’s electricity in the first half of 2020 as coalpower declined, but steeper change is needed to meet targets set under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, a report said on Thursday.

Mexico has sold only about onethird of the lottery tickets in a symbolic raffle for the presidential jet, with just a little over a month to go before the Sept. 15 drawing.

Actors who had objected to Walt Disney Co's proposed coronavirus safeguards at the Walt Disney World theme park have reached an agreement to return to work, according to a union statement on Wednesday.

A young Republican congressional candidate in North Carolina says suggestions from his rival and others that he has an affinity for white supremacist causes are ridiculous and based on a lack of historical knowledge.

Tribune Publishing Company, which owns some of the most storied newspapers in American journalism, said Wednesday that it is closing the newsrooms at five of them, including New York's Daily News and The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland.

Georgia's largest school district struggled Wednesday to launch online learning for its 180,000 students, as parents complained that they and their students repeatedly tried and failed to log in to Gwinnett County's online system.

A Zimbabwean magistrate Wednesday ordered prison authorities to unchain a journalist accused of mobilizing antigovernment protests, but then ruled that his testimony of poor prison conditions must be heard in private.

Police in Mali fired tear gas and water cannon at daybreak on Wednesday to disperse hundreds of protesters who had occupied and spent the night in a square in the capital Bamako, demanding the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.

French police are investigating an apparent antiSemitic attack on a 29yearman in an apartment building in northeast Paris.

A construction crane in Cambodias northwestern city of Poipet on the border with Thailand collapsed Wednesday, killing at least five people and injuring four others.

Mauritius says it is seeking compensation from the owners of a Japanese ship that spilled oil after it grounded in the shallow waters off the Indian Ocean island nation, while urgent efforts continue to pump out the remaining fuel.

The European Union on Wednesday began to reimpose customs duties on certain exports from Cambodia in response to what it said are concerns about the Southeast Asian countrys human rights record.

Kamala Harris represents an America that’s evolving, fitfully, toward equal opportunity and equal justice, writes Frank Bruni.