The Justice Department is releasing the inmates in a sweeping criminal justice overhaul that was signed by former President Donald Trump more than three years ago.
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A rare wintry storm sweeps across the Middle East turning the region into a winter wonderland.
South Africa has the unenviable reputation of having some of the world's highest levels of violence against women. More than 100 rapes are reported daily, while on average a woman is murdered every three hours, according to official data. President Cyril Ramaphosa regularly characterises violence targeted at women a "second pandemic" after Covid-19. of survivors in shelters for victims of GBV
Days after buying over-the-counter medicine from a pharmacy in Beijing, university student Yu was stunned to find her prized green health code -- the essential rating needed to enter the city's shops, offices and public transport -- was gone.
Tajikistan said Friday that two of its citizens were killed and 10 injured during overnight clashes at its contested border with Kyrgyzstan, where a ceasefire is now in place.
The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) rehearses for a show as the musicians resume live performances while navigating a maelstrom of Covid-19 rules. At the start of 2020, the NSO was planning its first international tour with conductor Gianandrea Noseda. Instead, the coronavirus pandemic forced the ensemble out of the concert hall at the Kennedy Center in the US capital for 18 months. "I enjoy the present," Noseda says. "I am here and now is fantastic, it’s a gift for me to be here."
Six members of a notorious criminal gang go on trial in Germany on Friday over a spectacular heist in which 18th-century jewels were snatched from a state museum in Dresden.
Morocco on Thursday inaugurated construction of an anti-Covid vaccine manufacturing plant in partnership with Swedish firm Recipharm, the official news agency MAP reported.
Honduras President Xiomara Castro's election brought an end to 12 years of right wing National Party (PN) rule
Hijab-wearing footballers play an impromptu game of football in Paris's Luxembourg Gardens, behind the Senate, to protest against a decision banning them from sports competitions.
President Joe Biden confirms he will nominate the first Black woman in US history to the Supreme Court bench as he addresses the nation from the White House on the retirement of the liberal justice Stephen Breyer.
Moscow does not want war but will not allow its interests to be ignored, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says as tensions continue to simmer over Ukraine. The West has accused Russia of massing 100,000 troops on the border with Ukraine and has threatened unprecedented sanctions if Moscow invades.
A man was jailed 11 months and fined for conspiring to help alleged nickel-trading fraudster Ng Yu Zhi flee from Singapore.
New boost to UK auto industry after tech firm and scooter maker invests in R&D plant to develop electric vehicles Ola claims to be the world’s third-largest ride-hailing app. It also makes an electric road-going scooter. Photograph: Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images Indian tech company Ola has announced plans to invest £100m in the UK to open a research and development facility for a planned electric car, in a significant boost to the British automotive industry. Ola launched its taxi app that ri
A school board in Tennessee has added to a surge in book bans by conservatives with an order to remove the award-winning 1986 graphic novel on the Holocaust, "Maus," from local student libraries.
Snow covers Jerusalem's golden-topped Dome of the Rock as rare wintry weather sweeps across the Middle East
The Taliban must uphold the fundamental human rights of women and children, the United Nations chief said Wednesday, urging the international community to release frozen Afghan aid to prevent families from selling their babies to buy food.
MUMBAI/TORONTO (Reuters) -Indian police have detained six people in a crackdown on illegal immigration after four Indians were found frozen to death near the border between the United States and Canada last week, officials said on Thursday. On the same day, India's High Commission in the Canadian capital of Ottawa confirmed the identities of the deceased as 39-year-old Jagdish Baldevbhai Patel, 37-year-old Vaishaliben Jagdishkumar Patel, 11-year-old Vihangi Jagdishkumar Patel and 3-year-old Dharmik Jagdishkumar Patel.
Angry mobs in eastern India set fire to train carriages in clashes with police over access to railway jobs. Bihar state has been on edge since the start of the week over claims by young job applicants that an entrance exam for the government-run rail sector was being conducted unfairly.
Hong Kong's economy grew by 6.4 percent in 2021 but the city warned that anti-Covid measures in response to the latest outbreak may stifle further recovery, a government spokesperson said on Friday.
The data-tracking "cookies" at the heart of concerns over online privacy were meant to shield people, rather than serve as cyber snoops, their inventor told AFP.
