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China’s first special envoy to the Horn of Africa on Monday offered to mediate in disputes in the region as Beijing seeks to strengthen its influence and protect its investments from conflict. “I myself am ready to provide mediation efforts for the peaceful settlement of disputes based on the...

A 40-year-old fugitive went on a crime spree on Sunday in Miami-Dade County and he was scheduled to appear in court on Monday. Antoine Carr Acosta stabbed a man and stole a special transportation service car from a woman in Homestead, police said. Police officers chased him on the Florida...

Thousands of students from state universities marched in Sri Lanka’s capital on Monday to demand the president and prime minister resign over an economic crisis that has caused severe shortages of essential supplies and disrupted people's livelihoods and education. The students say President...

The world’s largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the United States. The stingray, captured on June 13, measured almost four meters (13 feet) from snout to tail and weighed...

The Mega Job Fair is being held this week in Broward County and there are more than 8,000 jobs available from 100 different employers. The job fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday at FLA Live Arena at One Panther Parkway in Sunrise. The event is free and so is parking, but...

New York’s new law barring sales of bullet-resistant vests to most civilians doesn't cover the type of armor worn by the gunman who killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket, a gap that could limit its effectiveness in deterring future military-style assaults. During the May 14 attack, Payton...

Hundreds of blue, green and grey tents are pitched under the sun’s searing rays in downtown Phoenix, a jumble of flimsy canvas and plastic along dusty sidewalks. Here, in the hottest big city in America, thousands of homeless people swelter as the summer’s triple digit temperatures arrive. The...

From a hideout in a bombed-out house in eastern Ukraine, army commander Mykhailo Strebizh twirls a mortar shell the size of a bowling pin, calling it “aid we got from Europe and America.” He then turns to a makeshift blackboard — a door with words written on it in chalk -- showing weapon...

Tropical cyclones – tropical depressions, tropical storms, and hurricanes – don’t form spontaneously. They need a spark to trigger convection which begins the process of tropical cyclogenesis – or the organization of thunderstorms into a distinct tropical system. This spark originates from some...

Kosovo’s central government and authorities in the capital joined forces on Monday to bring back home an international music festival founded by the father of singer-songwriter Dua Lipa which had been moved following a dispute with its organizers. A week ago the Sunny Hill Festival announced it...

Cooler temperatures helped firefighters Monday stabilize a wildfire in northwestern Spain that reports say is the biggest on record in the country. The fire in the Sierra de Culebra mountain range in Zamora province has burnt 31,000 hectares (77,000 acres) so far. The state news agency Efe said...

Film director Paul Haggis was being held in a hotel room in southern Italy on Monday pending a court hearing while prosecutors press their investigation of a woman's allegations he had sex with her without her consent over the course of two days. Prosecutors in Brindisi, a port town in Puglia...

Two Orange County deputies have been disciplined for spreading information following the death of comedian and actor Bob Saget earlier this year, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. WKMG in Orlando reported that reports show Deputies Emiliano Silva and Steven Reed shared the...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had an operation on his sinuses under general anaesthetic on Monday, his office said. Johnson’s spokesman, Max Blain, said the prime minister was back at his 10 Downing Street home and resting after the “routine” procedure. He said the operation had been...

Lawyers on Monday renewed calls for the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into China's treatment of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim groups in China’s Xinjiang region as they presented a dossier of evidence to prosecutors. Activists and lawyers accuse Beijing of crimes...

A teen is dead and another three people were injured, including a police officer, after a shooting Sunday night in Washington, D.C. The incident took place near a concert celebrating the Juneteenth holiday. The youngest victim was just 15 years old. Police believe this may have been the work...

Dashcam video shows a van being hauled by a truck smashing into an overpass near Plantation. The video taken by a Local 10 News viewer happened around 10 a.m. Sunday on State Road 84. The white van appears to be hoisted up too high before it crashed into the overpass and came crashing down...

Russia’s military machine persevered in its ferocious effort to grind down Ukraine’s defenses Monday, as the war’s consequences for food and fuel supplies increasingly weighed on minds around the globe after warnings that the fighting could go on for years. In Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region...

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen said on Monday that her party’s extraordinary surge in the country's parliamentary election is a “historic victory” and a “seismic event” in French politics. Many voters in Sunday's poll opted for far-right or far-left candidates, denying President Emmanuel...

Belgian authorities on Monday returned a gold-capped tooth belonging to the slain Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba, as the former colonial power continues to confront its bloody past and look toward reconciliation. The restitution of the relic took place after Belgium’s King Philippe...