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The prime minister of Mauritius says the government is appealing to France for help with a brewing environmental disaster after a ship that ran aground days ago off the Indian Ocean island nation began leaking oil.

Fires in the Brazilian Amazon have surged so far in August, government data on Friday showed, outstripping the same period of 2019 and renewing concerns about the destruction of the world's largest rainforest, which is a critical bulwark against climate c...

India called for focused international efforts to address threats posed by the fugitive gangster and terror groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.

Pavitra Rishta director Kushal Zaveri said that Sushant Singh Rajput couldn't sleep for many nights after being falsely accused of sexual harassment during the Me Too movement in 2018. This and more in today's entertainment wrap.

The dollar bounced off twoyear lows and a gauge of global equity markets halted a march toward a record high on Friday as slightly betterthanexpected data on U.S. job growth in July also snapped big rallies in gold and the euro.

Australia will host this year's postponed Twenty20 World Cup in 2022 with India retaining their tournament next year, the sport's governing International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Friday.

The S&P 500 retreated from a near sixmonth high in choppy trading on Friday with data showing a sharp slowdown in U.S. employment growth, while U.S.China tensions escalated with President Donald Trump's move to ban WeChat and TikTok.

The U.S. on Friday imposed sanctions on Hong Kong officials, including the proChina leader of the government, accusing them of roles in squashing freedom in the former British colony.

The devastating explosion in Beirut should be a wakeup call for countries on the dangers of ammonium nitrate, which caused the blast, experts say.

Brent Scowcroft, a pragmatic threestar general who served as national security adviser to Republican U.S. Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush and later criticized President George W. Bush's Iraq war policies, died on Thursday. He was 95.

A senior Iranian official said on Friday there was no difference between the outgoing and incoming U.S. special envoys for Iran because American officials “bite off more than they can chew”.

South African investigators are seeking to recover more than 400 million rand ($23 million) from German software firm SAP for two government contracts they allege were entered into unlawfully, court documents seen by Reuters show.

A Palestinian woman died Friday after being shot in the chest by an apparent stray bullet during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

Actress Rhea Chakraborty, who is being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate, refused to give her property documents to the agency saying that she forgot where she kept them.

U.S. employment growth slowed considerably in July amid a resurgence in new COVID19 infections, offering the clearest evidence yet that the economy's recovery from the recession caused by the pandemic was faltering.

Physical gold remained out of favour in most Asian hubs this week as a worsening pandemic kept retail buyers away with global benchmark spot prices at historic highs, while logistical challenges plagued the Indian market.