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The United States formally left the Paris Agreement, a global pact forged five years ago to avert the threat of catastrophic climate change.

The heart of powerful Hurricane Eta began has moving ashore in Nicaragua with devastating winds and rains that have already destroyed rooftops and caused rivers to overflow.

A federal judge has postponed President Donald Trump's threatened shutdown of the popular short-form video app TikTok.

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted that he is “well and without symptoms” but will self-quarantine in “coming days, in line with WHO protocols, and work from home.”

The head of the World Health Organization warned against the idea that herd immunity might be a realistic strategy to stop the pandemic, dismissing such proposals as “simply unethical.”

Gunmen opened fire on people enjoying a last evening out in Vienna before a coronavirus lockdown Monday in a terror attack that left at least two dead — including one of the attackers — and 15 wounded, authorities said.

Eta has been upgraded to a hurricane and threatens to bring heavy rain, storm surge, landslides and more to parts of Central America and the Caribbean.

As onlookers applauded in joy and wept with relief, rescue teams in Turkey brought two girls out alive from the wreck of collapsed apartment buildings in the coastal city of Izmir.

Police in Quebec City have arrested a 24-year-old man dressed in medieval clothing and armed with sword on suspicion of killing two people and injuring five others on Halloween near the historic Château Frontenac hotel.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand has issued a safety warning to citizens visiting the U.S. during the presidential election.

The British government says a new national lockdown in England may have to last longer than the planned four weeks if coronavirus infection rates don’t fall quickly enough.

Cuzco, which lives almost entirely from international tourism, is suffering the worst crisis in its recent history.

U.S. officials say an American citizen kidnapped in the West African nation of Niger this past week has been rescued in a U.S. military operation in neighboring Nigeria.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that the government is putting all of England under a monthlong lockdown next week after being warned that a resurgent coronavirus outbreak will overwhelm hospitals in weeks without tough action.

Rescue workers have pulled three young children and their mother alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in western Turkey some 23 hours after a powerful earthquake in the Aegean Sea killed at least 38 people and injured more than 800 others.