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Thousands of people demonstrated in cities across Italy on Saturday to support Afghan women and demand continued international pressure on the countrys Taliban leaders to let women participate in the educational and political life of the country.

Fashion houses trying to figure out how to reach new eyeballs after the long ordeal of the pandemic have centered around a singular idea: collaborations.

In a letter from prison, one of the alliance's leaders, Chow Hang-tung, urged members not to give up.

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley certainly didnt phone in her speech at the U.N. General Assembly on Friday but she did have what appeared to be an iPhone in hand while delivering impassioned remarks to fellow world leaders.

At a U.N. General Assembly meeting packed with global gloom, Japan's outgoing leader highlighted what he cast as a moment of inspiration: the Tokyo Olympics, controversially held in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.

Joel Coen, in his first solo outing as a filmmaker, premiered a strikingly stark, blackandwhite adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth," with Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, at the New York Film Festival on Friday.

Australia is grappling with a third wave of infections from the highly infectious Delta variant that has led to lockdowns in its two largest cities.

The South American country has now registered 21,308,178 cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 592,964,

The three candidates hoping to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor, and the four leaders of the other parties currently in parliament, clashed Thursday over a variety of topics in the last televised debate before Sunday's election.

A Missouri appeals court on Thursday denied the state attorney general's request to recuse all Jackson County judges from presiding over an upcoming evidentiary hearing for a man who the county prosecutor says was wrongfully convicted in a triple homicide...

The situation came to the fore when Ghana canceled the contract of the Beijing Everyway Traffic and Lighting Tech company

State Department officials -- both privately and publicly -- continue to say that about 100 Americans are still in Afghanistan who want to get out.

The talks were expected to be tense, though the White House said afterward the tone was "friendly" between the two leaders.

The U.S. government released projections Wednesday that indicate an even more troubling outlook for a river that serves 40 million people in the American West.

President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that's he's nominating two major Democratic fundraisers and a former Georgia state lawmaker to serve as ambassadors.

Syria is facing a new surge in COVID19 infections in both governmentheld areas and territory outside state control that could overwhelm the warravaged country's fragile health system, aid workers, officials and medical sources said on Wednesday.