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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – A former Texas police officer was found guilty by a jury of manslaughter in the death of a Black woman who was killed when he …

By Ross Kerber and Dan Whitcomb BOSTON (Reuters) -Harvard University on Thursday named Claudine Gay, the school’s dean of Faculty Arts and Sciences, as its 30th president, the first Black …

By Tyler Clifford and Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -Three men convicted of playing supporting roles in a foiled plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan in 2020 were sentenced to multiple …

By Steve Holland and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. National Archives on Thursday released thousands of documents related to the 1963 assassination of then-President John F. Kennedy, acting shortly …

By Padraic Halpin and Laila Bassam DUBLIN/BEIRUT (Reuters) -An Irish soldier was shot and killed on a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon and a second was in a critical condition …

By Brenda Goh and Albee Zhang BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China raced to vaccinate its most vulnerable people on Thursday in anticipation of waves of COVID-19 infections, with some analysts expecting the …

By Ted Hesson and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Over 200 advocates from around the United States converged on Capitol Hill this week with an 11th-hour mission: persuade lawmakers to provide …

BELGRADE (Reuters) – The Serbian government will ask the NATO peacekeeper commander to allow the country to send up to 1,000 police and army personnel to Kosovo, President Aleksandar Vucic …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday she had yet to decide whether the U.S. House of Representatives will join the Senate in backing legislation to …

(Reuters) -A gunman on Thursday wounded two people, including his former girlfriend, in the parking lot of a Pennsylvania medical clinic before killing himself, local police said. The suspect was …

Laredo, Texas – Laredo Sector Border Patrol awarded the Youth of the Month honorees for December during a ceremony at St. Augustine High School. On Dec. 15, Laredo Sector Border …

By Ezgi Erkoyun ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Thousands of people rallied in Turkey on Thursday to oppose the conviction and political ban of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, chanting slogans criticising President Tayyip …

(Reuters) -A sprawling winter storm was expected to unleash ice, snow and strong winds across the U.S. Northeast on Thursday after spawning dozens of tornadoes that killed three people and …

By Jeff Mason, Daphne Psaledakis and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday announced he would support the African Union joining the G20 group of large economies …

By Angus McDowall and Tarek Amara ZARZIS, Tunisia (Reuters) – Tunisia holds an election on Saturday but, in the coastal town of Zarzis, teenager Ismail Challahki and others like him …

By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -Prince Harry and his wife Meghan piled fresh criticism on the British royals in new episodes of their documentary series released on Thursday, accusing his …

By Robert Muller and Jason Hovet (Reuters) -Slovakia’s minority centre-right government lost a no-confidence vote on Thursday, raising political instability and possibly bringing an early election sometime in 2023 while …

By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -The crew of a British fishing boat helped prevent what could have been a much larger tragedy when they rescued more than 30 migrants from …

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Aidan Lewis KHARTOUM (Reuters) – An agreement to relaunch a political transition in Sudan and unlock billions of dollars in frozen international support faces many pitfalls, …

By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Russia is digging in for a long war in Ukraine and still wants to conquer the entire country, a senior Ukrainian military official said on …

By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Negotiators in the U.S. Senate have reached a tentative deal to narrow sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine and plan to tuck the …

By Andrew Goudsward (Reuters) -Rudy Giuliani violated at least one attorney ethics rule in his work on a failed lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results on behalf of then-U.S. President …

DUBAI (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu urged key ally the United States to reaffirm its commitment to Saudi Arabia and pledged to pursue formal Israeli ties with Riyadh …