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Prior to disembarking in New Orleans, each person on board will be tested for the coronavirus.

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered on Friday that a probe be opened into President Jair Bolsonaro for having said during a live broadcast on multiple social media platforms in October that COVID19 vaccines may raise the chance of contracting AIDS.

Nearly two decades after earning a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and more than four years after his death, rock icon Tom Petty has been awarded an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Florida.

France has carried out an evacuation mission in Afghanistan, taking 258 Afghans as well as 11 French, some 60 Dutch nationals and an unspecified number of people linked to them out of the country, a French foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Friday.

Zion National Park will soon require reservations to hike a famous southern Utah trail perched on the edge of a redrock cliff, officials announced Friday.

The chief of the National Guard has tested positive for COVID19 after returning from an overseas trip to visit guard troops in Europe for Thanksgiving.

Belgium, in common with much of Europe, is facing a growing wave of Covid-19 infections as winter grips the country.

Officials have agreed to allow as many as 900 bison from Yellowstone National Park to be shot by hunters, sent to slaughter or placed in quarantine this winter in a program that seeks to prevent the animals from spreading a disease to cattle.

The United States and its allies, including the European Union, on Thursday imposed sanctions against dozens of individuals and entities in Belarus in a coordinated move to escalate punitive action against President Alexander Lukashenko and his government...

Activist groups called on the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday to create a new panel of independent experts to collect and preserve evidence of possible war crimes by all sides in Yemen's bitter conflict for future prosecution.

Australia and New Zealand will each stage 24 games in the group stage when the countries host the Womens World Cup for the first time in 2023.

Hundreds of people in the town of Denton were forced to flee flames pushed by strong winds in central Montana on Wednesday, while a fire south of the city of Great Falls burned 11 homes as well as sheds and other small buildings, officials said.

Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri was formally charged Wednesday with illegally spying on relatives of sailors whose submarine sank in 2017, one of the most embarrassing incidents of his presidency.

Petr Uhl, a Czech journalist who was one of the country's leading communistera dissidents and human rights activists, has died at 80.

The EU's 27 health ministers will first assess the situation next Tuesday before it will be put to the leaders in the Dec.

Of the more than 60 people on that and another KLM flight from South Africa who tested positive for the virus, at least 14 had omicron, according to Dutch officials.