The three main indexes were trimming back losses in late morning trading Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was flat, while the S&P 500 fell 0.1%, and the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.1%.

Angolan President Joao Lourenco has pardoned some 50 prisoners, including the son of his predecessor Jose Eduardo dos Santos who was serving a five-year jail term for embezzlement.

Veteran middle-order batter Sean Williams was unbeaten on 145 as Zimbabwe posted 363 for four against Afghanistan on the first day of the first Test in Bulawayo on Thursday.

Iran's foreign ministry condemned Thursday Israeli strikes on targets of Tehran-allied Huthi rebels in Yemen as a "violation" of peace and security.

The UN mission to Afghanistan on Thursday called for an investigation into Pakistani air strikes in Afghanistan, in which the Taliban government said 46 people were killed, including civilians.

Lebanon's Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib expressed his hope Thursday for close ties with Syria's new rulers after a phone call with his Syrian counterpart, Beirut said.

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Thursday that 38 people had been killed in the Palestinian territory in the past 24 hours, taking the overall war death toll to 45,399.

A bus went off the road and ended up partially submerged in the Norwegian lake near the Raftsundet strait, killing three people and injuring four, police said Thursday.

Brief scores at close of play on the first day of the first Test between South Africa and Pakistan at SuperSport Park on Thursday: ...

The chief paediatric doctor at a southern Gaza hospital told AFP that three babies had died of "severe temperature drop" this week, as the war-ravaged Palestinian territory grapples with winter cold.

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Banbridge sprouted wings to foil front runner Il Est Francais after the last fence and land the King George VI Chase at Kempton on Thursday.