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Angola's main opposition party on Thursday filed a case with the constitutional court to seek the annulment of last week's election in which the ruling MPLA was declared the winner, Portuguese news agency Lusa said.

Lori Vallow's lawyers filed a motion asking a judge to ban cameras from the courtroom after getting too close to their client.

The U.S. military experienced its highest recorded level of sexual assault among women last year, in findings the Pentagon on Thursday described as tragic, disappointing and devastating.

Gay rights activists from across Latin America have called for the region's governments to take firm steps to prevent the spread of monkeypox, saying a lack of will to provide vaccines and diagnose cases is hurting the region's gay and bisexual men.

A federal judge on Thursday narrowed the scope of questions that Republican Senator Lindsey Graham must answer from a special grand jury investigating Donald Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia, but she again rejected Graham's bid to avoid testifying altogether.

California lawmakers on Thursday voted to extend the life of the state's only nuclear power plant by five years, and approved several other measures to bolster the state's already aggressive climate change policies and shore up its fragile power sector.

The U.S. government is drastically underestimating the social cost of carbon dioxide emissions, which is 3.6 times higher than the estimate currently used to inform many of Washington's key climate policies, a study suggested on Thursday.

A U.S. House of Representatives committee said Thursday it had reached an agreement with Donald Trump and accounting firm Mazars USA on handing over some of the former president's financial records.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was shocked and bewildered by the Ukraine conflict in the months before he died and psychologically crushed in recent years by Moscow's worsening ties with Kyiv, his interpreter said on Thursday.

Clashes among rival Shi'ite Muslim militants in the Iraqi city of Basra have killed at least four people, security officials said on Thursday, as violence from a worsening political crisis hit the south of the country.

The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell to a two-month low last week while layoffs dropped in August, suggesting the Federal Reserve would need to continue aggressively raising interest rates to slow the labor market.

U.S. States seeking to enforce abortion bans will not be able to obtain medical or communications records of patients, doctors or others involved in helping women obtain care in California under a package of bills sent to Governor Gavin Newsom late on Wednesday.

The Wednesday night jackpot was worth an estimated $134.2 million.

Test scores released on Thursday showed that American 9-year-olds' reading and mathematics achievement levels had dropped to levels last seen two decades ago, revealing the damage the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought on education in the United States.

General Motors' startup unit Cruise LLC said Thursday it had recalled and updated software in 80 self-driving vehicles after a June crash in San Francisco that left two people injured.

U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to ramp up attacks on politicians aligned with Donald Trump in a prime-time speech in Philadelphia on Thursday, and ask Americans to push back against extremism at the ballot box.

Poland estimates its World War Two losses caused by Germany at 6.2 trillion zlotys ($1.32 trillion), the leader of the country's ruling nationalists said on Thursday, and he said Warsaw would officially demand reparations.

"It's not just the burns but the abandonment," said Lt. Alan Borgal of the Animal Rescue League of Boston. "This is a very cruel abandonment."

The driver of a car being chased by cops drew a gun at a woman passenger and shot her.

The officer has had six complaints lodged against him over the past decade, according to an organization that investigates reports of police misconduct.

"When the government wants to fight you, they have a lot of tools at their disposal," he said in an interview.

The discovery led to several people making jokes about Trump online.

Chess is known as the game of the Kings as the most important piece in the game is the King, and the board game ends when the King is captured or cannot move.

The teen was identified as the suspect based on the eyewitness accounts and video evidence recovered from the store's damaged servers.

"She was my baby girl. Everybody loved her," her mother reportedly said. "I'm just lost for words. I can't even think."

"We are relieved no bomb was found and that employees and patients are safe," the hospital said.

The officials could not find any weapon at the scene but found a vape pen next to the victim.

The owner of McDonald's former restaurants in Russia has offered up to 151 million euros ($151 million) to buy Finnish packaging firm Huhtamaki's local business, adding to his burgeoning empire, documents seen by Reuters showed.