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The Kabul airport attack has nixed hopes of evacuation for the last thousands still hoping to make it out. Am hearing the US military is sealing shut the airport gates. The casualty numbers are growin…

No minimum wage. Roe vs. Wade overturned. Environmental progress turned back. Employers allowed to ask women if they plan to get pregnant. These are the hopes of Larry Elder, California's likely gover…

Simone Biles withdrew from the women's artistic gymnastics team Olympic final on July 27, 2021, due to physical injury.

In this thread of the Declaration of Independence, you can see a document with flaws and deeply ingrained hypocrisies. It also laid the foundation for this country’s collective aspirations — the hopes…

4th place runner Rebecca Washington is set to replace Sha'Carri Richardson on the U.S. Olympic team. The Mormon athlete says she hopes to help inspire the nation's children to say "no" to drugs.

Duty Editor: Daniel Lawler Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Scores dead as heatwave grips Canada and US + Russia posts second-straight Covid death record + N.Korea chiefs fired over 'crucial…

More bodies were discovered overnight in the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in Florida, rescuers said Wednesday, as the search for the nearly 150 people unaccounted for entered its seventh d…

Ons Jabeur says "being the only Arab (woman)" on the tennis tour "is not easy" but she hopes one day there will be a whole group of them like the Americans and French. The 25-year-old Tunisian is sett…

Olympics chief Thomas Bach will arrive in Japan on July 8, Tokyo 2020 organisers said Wednesday as they make final preparations for the pandemic-postponed Games. Bach had initially been expected to vi…

US-based drone operator Zipline, which has seen pandemic-fueled growth of delivery of vaccines and medical supplies in Africa and the United States, said Wednesday it raised $250 million as it moves t…

Unemployment in Brazil, Latin America's largest economy, remained at a record level in the three months from February, with 14.8 million of its 212 million people looking for work, official data showe…

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that he hopes a fresh harvest of fruits and vegetables will lower prices for produce in Russia, which has been hit hard by soaring inflation. Surveys sh…

US stocks held steady near records on Wednesday following strong jobs data, while European equities faltered. Private US firms added 692,000 jobs in June, according to payroll services firm ADP. The f…

Myanmar authorities released more than 2,000 anti-coup protesters from prisons across Myanmar on Wednesday, including local journalists jailed after reporting critically on the junta's bloody crackdow…

Four more bodies were discovered overnight in the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in Florida, authorities said Wednesday, as the search for more than 140 people unaccounted for entered its se…

Russia's Covid-19 death toll reached a record on Wednesday as the country battled the highly infectious Delta variant, even as Europe prepared to launch an EU-wide Covid certificate to boost its devas…

The UK government on Thursday will detail plans to safeguard the City of London's future under a post-Brexit agenda that requires companies to disclose their impact on the climate. Finance minister Ri…

Israel's top diplomat Yair Lapid said Wednesday that more cooperation deals with the UAE were on the horizon, during a landmark visit to the Gulf nation. The United Arab Emirates and Israel normalised…

Letting out exhilarated howls in the light of a full moon, young cyclists barrel down a steep hill on their "fixie" bikes, sound bars blaring out music, in South Africa's Soweto township. They are the…

Stock markets in Europe and the United States pulled back on Wednesday, the final day of the second quarter as investors tracked lingering coronavirus concerns. "Europe turned negative, reflecting con…