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London: A 17 year-old British-Indian activist addressed the House of Commons, calling for swift action on climate change to prevent its adverse impacts on health. Dev Sharma was among the...

Washington: Democratic members of the US House of Representatives elected Hakeem Jeffries as their leader Wednesday, making him the first African American to get that job. Jeffries will succeed Nancy Pelosi...

Tokyo: Twenty children in Japan's Osaka prefecture were hospitalised on Tuesday after a sulfur-like odor at their school left some of them feeling unwell. The fire department was called shortly...

Shanghai: Hundreds of demonstrators and police have clashed in Shanghai as protests over Chinas stringent Covid restrictions continued for a third day and spread to several cities, in the biggest...

Beijing: Protests against Covid restrictions in China appear to have intensified in the wake of a fire which killed 10 people in an apartment block in Urumqi, local media reported. Thousands...

Beijing: Chinese President and general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Xi Jinping on Friday held talks with Cuban President and first secretary of the Central Committee...

Kiev: In his address to the UN Security Council, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of committing "crimes against humanity" after a new barrage of missile strikes have caused widespread...

Ankara: A strong earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale struck western Turkey near the town of Duzce on Wednesday, injuring at least 55 people, authorities said. According to the national...

Washington: US President Joe Biden has pardoned a pair of turkeys as he discharged the presidential duty of the annual Thanksgiving turkey pardon. "I hereby pardon Chocolate and Chip," Xinhua news...

Djakarta: At least 162 people were killed and hundreds more injured as a 5.6 intensity earthquake shook Indonesia's main island of Java on Monday, reports said. The quake struck Cianjur town...