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Tennessee authorities are investigating a fatal shooting in Memphis by two National Guard troops that has raised new questions about the Trump administration's deployment of troops to U.S. cities. The guardsmen shot and killed 20-year-old Tyrin Johnson during a foot...

A reservoir wall broke in Nanning, China, sending out a torrent of water after rivers swelled from the passage of a typhoon. At least two people have been killed by flooding due to Typhoon Maysak, officials have said. The...

A Kenyan court initially suspended the country's deal after legal challenges demanding protection of patient privacy.Arnold Kavaarpuo, executive director of Ghana's Data Protection Commission, told the BBC the government in Accra had objected to the deal it was offered...

"I want to say one sentence to President Trump and the world," declared a grey-haired man named Mojtaba, who came to us saying he had a message. "Soon, very soon you will see signs of revenge at the top...

The prisons these men helped run are part of a detention system in which the UN's human rights office (OHCHR) says the torture and ill-treatment of civilians is "systematic and widespread".It says former detainees describe beatings, electric shocks, mock...

The U.S. men's national team is set to face Belgium on Monday night in the World Cup round of 16 with star striker Folarin Balogun in the starting lineup after his one-game suspension was put on hold by FIFA.Balogun...

The film has had an unusually long and difficult journey to release. It was originally titled, external Ghallughara, a Punjabi term associated with some of the darkest episodes in Sikh history. It refers to the mass killings of Sikhs...

Chinese companies are expanding globally, and fast. Their biggest commercial competitors are in the US.Waymo, Alphabet's robotaxi business, remains the commercial leader, operating paid driverless services in several US cities. Amazon-owned Zoox and Tesla are expanding more cautiously, while...

Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner on Monday pushed back on an allegation of sexual assault, calling it "categorically false" and adding that he is "taking the time to reflect on the best path forward."In a Politico report published on...

More than 500 people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a result of the ongoing Ebola outbreak, as experts say cuts to international aid have hampered the country from containing the virus.There have been 1,561 recorded...