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19 Aug
US Democrats on Tuesday nominated Joe Biden as their presidential candidate, formally designating the Washington veteran as the party's challenger to incumbent President Donald Trump in the November election....
19 Aug
A temperature of 54.4 degrees Celsius recorded in California's Death Valley on Sunday by the US National Weather Service could be the hottest global temperature ever measured with modern instruments. The...
19 Aug
Social activists in São Paulo say the coronavirus pandemic is causing an increase in the number of homeless people in the Brazil's largest city. Before the pandemic, local authorities counted more than...
19 Aug
A university in the US state of North Carolina announced Monday it will switch to entirely virtual classes for its nearly 20,000 students, after dozens tested positive for COVID-19 in the first week back at school...
19 Aug
Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday accused the opposition of attempting to seize power in the wake of mass protests against disputed presidential elections. Belarus's security forces brutally...
19 Aug
Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced his resignation with immediate effect in the early hours of Wednesday morning, a day after rebel soldiers launched a coup. In an address on state television,...
18 Aug
Dozens of indigenous protesters blocked a main highway through the Brazilian Amazon Monday, demanding help against the new coronavirus and an end to illegal mining and deforestation. Wearing traditional feather...
18 Aug
The melting of Greenland's ice cap has gone so far that it is now irreversible, with snowfall no longer able to compensate for the loss of ice even if global warming were to end today, according to researchers...
18 Aug
A man who stabbed a police officer on Monday evening in Jerusalem's Old City was shot dead by Israeli security forces, police said. The officer, who was 19, was stabbed in the chest but remained conscious,...
18 Aug
The anniversary of the death of Argentina's founding father Jose de San Martin was marked on Monday by various demonstrations against the presidency of Alberto Fernández and the country's prolonged...

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