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A special prosecutor on Tuesday said he decided against pursuing criminal charges a white Atlanta police officer who fatally shot a Black man outside a fast-food restaurant in 2020, a killing that fueled days of sometimes violent protests.

Iraq's judiciary will resume its activities on Wednesday after powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on his supporters to withdraw from outside its headquarters, the state news agency INA reported.

Afghan refugees and migrants living in limbo at a United Arab Emirates (UAE) facility for nearly a year since being evacuated from Afghanistan held fresh protests this week over what they say is a slow and opaque resettlement process.

President Joe Biden is set to make a decision on student loan forgiveness as payment pause comes to an end on Aug. 31.

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's conglomerate on Tuesday said it seeks to control a majority stake in the popular New Delhi Television (NDTV), a move the TV news group said was executed without its consent.

A $75-million superyacht linked to a sanctioned Russian steel billionaire was auctioned on Tuesday in Gibraltar, court sources said, in what is understood to be the first sale of its kind since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.

Ukrainians revelled at a surreal display of burnt-out Russian tanks and armour laid out as war trophies in central Kyiv to mark 31 years of independence this week, but fears of fresh Russian attacks lurked behind the show of defiance.

Twitter Inc misled federal regulators about its defenses against hackers and spam accounts, the social media company's former security chief Peiter Zatko said in a whistleblower complaint.

A jury on Tuesday convicted two men accused of conspiring to trigger "a second American revolution" by kidnaping Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, handing the U.S.

The U.S. Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the conduct of three Arkansas law enforcement officers caught in an online video over the weekend punching and kicking a suspect while he was on the ground outside a convenience store.

The school said students will only be addressed by the "gender on their birth certificates."

Two years ago, Francisco Mapanda and Arante Kivuvu were jobless during the COVID-19 pandemic so they started selling whiskey and cigarettes under a bridge in Angola's capital, Luanda.

Simeon was driving in the wrong way at a high speed and slammed head-on into another vehicle

"Where the child was buried, there was a lawn mower that sat there for a long time. And it was a nice lawn mower, but it never moved," a neighbor said.

The wet season is expected to continue in southern states for the next few days.

The two have not been identified, and no one has been arrested in connection to the incident, according to police.

The suspect allegedly lured the child with a cat and took her into a nearby motel room from where she was rescued later.

The pharmaceutical's president allegedly conspired with a Houston drug trafficking organization to distribute fake cough syrup to drug abusers across 12 states.

Peter Obi is hardly a political outsider, but the bespeckled former governor says he is looking to harness Nigerians' anger with the status quo to power his third-party presidential bid.

"We just know they got their hands on a weapon, we don't know where the weapon came from," the twin brothers' aunt said.

"I still don't know how to process it and I don't think I'm ever going to be able to process it. I know it f---ing hurts and I know it hurts all of you," the teen's boyfriend said in an emotional video posted on Facebook.

A former Louisville detective is expected to plead guilty on Tuesday to helping to falsify a search warrant that led to the killing of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman whose death fueled to a wave of protests over police violence against people of color.

New York state voters head to the polls on Tuesday in the first competitive congressional election since the U.S.

She was found living in "filthy conditions" and was taken to the hospital a couple of days before her death, officials said.

A reliance on vaccines in short supply and questions over their best use are hampering efforts to curb the global spread of monkeypox which has hit dozens of countries for the first time, health officials say.

The cops suspect the incident may have been a targeted shooting.

A former Apple Inc engineer on Monday pleaded guilty to trade secret theft - one of two people accused of stealing trade secrets from the iPhone maker's nascent self-driving car program.

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said advice from the solicitor general showed his predecessor Scott Morrison's secret appointment to ministries during the COVID-19 pandemic "fundamentally undermined" responsible government despite being legally valid.

Russia carried out artillery and air strikes in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine's General Staff said on Tuesday, where fighting near Europe's largest nuclear power plant has raised fears of a catastrophic nuclear incident.