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Turkey officially withdrew on Thursday from an international treaty to prevent violence against women, enacting a decision that drew condemnation from many Turks and Western allies when President Tayyip Erdogan announced it in March.

Coastal areas in the Pacific Northwest have seen the worst of record-breaking heat, but millions in eastern Washington and Oregon are still under heat advisories through the upcoming weekend.

President Joe Biden, whose empathy amid loss is his chief political characteristic, will travel Thursday to console families in Florida who are enduring the excruciating search for loved ones inside a seaside condo that suddenly collapsed a week ago.

Martón Pál feels like he is in a parallel universe.

For the first time in over 15 months, Thailand's popular resort island of Phuket is allowing vaccinated international travelers to enter without quarantine restrictions.

The Chinese Communist Party marks its 100th anniversary with celebrations across the country. CNN's Steven Jiang reports from the Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

Didi went public Wednesday in the biggest US share offering by a Chinese company since Alibaba debuted in 2014.

Myanmar freed more than 2,000 detainees on Wednesday, among them journalists and others who the ruling military said had been held on incitement charges for taking part in protests, local media reported.

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has died at the age of 88, according to a statement from his family.

Victoria Valentino, one of the women who accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault, says that the decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to vacate Cosby's conviction was a "gut punch" and came out of the blue.

Bill Cosby will be released after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania vacated his conviction and judgment of sentence, according Stacey Witalec, spokesman for Pennsylvania's highest court.

The woman who allegedly held out a banner causing the crash of dozens of cyclists during the first stage of the Tour de France last Saturday has been identified and is undergoing police questioning, the Brest prosecutor's office told CNN.

Kim Jong Un fired several senior officials who failed to enforce North Korea's stringent Covid-19 prevention, a dereliction of duty which the young dictator said will have "grave consequences" for the impoverished and isolated nation, state media reported Wednesday.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Manhattan District Attorney is expected to file tax-related charges against the Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg. CNN's Kara Scannell has more.

With the Delta variant accounting for more than a quarter of Covid-19 cases, Dr. Anthony Fauci warns there could soon be "two Americas" -- one where most people are vaccinated and another where low vaccination rates could lead to spikes in cases.

England gave Germany a lesson in ruthless finishing, converting its only two real chances of the match to finally end its decades-long inferiority complex against its old, historic rival.

Japan's Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence given to a 74-year-old serial killer, known as the "Black Widow," for the murder of three men, including her husband, and the attempted murder of a fourth.

A last-gasp addition to his team, Mark Cavendish rolled back the years as he claimed his 31st Tour de France stage victory on Tuesday -- five years after his last success on the world's greatest cycling race.

The House is voting Wednesday to create a select committee that will investigate the deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol, while House Republican leaders still aren't saying whether they will participate in the panel.

The Covid pandemic deprived the Supreme Court of its courtroom for oral arguments, its intimate conference room for deliberations and, as is evident these days, the bench where dissenting justices can vent.

Despite a desperate need for Covid-19 vaccines, Brazil is suspending a deal to purchase 20 million doses of the Indian-made Covaxin vaccines, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday, after questions were raised about a pricing increase.

When the United Kingdom emerged from one of the world's longest and most stringent coronavirus lockdowns in April, it did so believing that the worst of the pandemic was over.

America is in celebratory mode. States are dropping Covid-19 restrictions, plane travel is breaking records, and many Americans are gearing up to celebrate summer as if the last year plus of pandemic madness never happened.

A new space telescope that could spot potentially hazardous asteroids and comets heading for Earth is one step closer to reality.

As countries around the Asia-Pacific region tighten restrictions once again to curb potential breakouts of the Delta coronavirus variant, Singapore has laid out a new vision for life to return to normal.

A California couple has been fined for digging up and burying dozens of protected Joshua trees to make room for a home they were building, officials said.

Mineralizing rivers, desalinating oceans, drilling into the ground. There are many different ways to access drinking water in places where it's in short supply. But with overpopulation, climate change and increasing water scarcity, innovators have been on the lookout for a new solution -- and some are convinced the answer is up in the air.

Oxygen prices in Indonesia's capital had more than doubled and some suppliers reported shortages on Tuesday after a surge in Covid-19 cases that prompted the Red Cross to warn of a coronavirus "catastrophe" in Southeast Asia's biggest country.

China is in the middle of a huge power crunch as extreme weather, surging demand for energy and strict limits on coal usage deliver a triple blow to the nation's electricity grid. It's a problem that could last for months, straining the country's economic recovery and weighing on global trade.

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Rebel forces in the war-torn Ethiopian region of Tigray have rejected a ceasefire offer from the central government, raising fears of further violence a day after the fighters retook the regional capital Mekelle.

A car given to Princess Diana by Prince Charles as an engagement present has sold for more than £52,000 ($72,000) at auction.

An Idaho woman who is accused of killing her two children has been charged in the death of her former husband.

Four people have been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal fire at a residential assisted living center in Spring Valley, New York, that killed a firefighter and a resident in March, the Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Walsh announced Tuesday.

The campaign to become New York City's next mayor has come in for another twist.