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China faces about 1.6 million premature deaths a year as a result of air pollution, the US-based Health Effects Institute (HEI) said in a report, based on data going back to 1990, published on Tuesday.

UN Ambassador Nikki Haley created a firestorm on Sunday when she said the new sanctions would be imposed by the Treasury Department on Monday, when, in fact, no such announcement was planned, according to two officials familiar with the matter.

SpaceX halted the countdown a little more than two hours before its Falcon 9 rocket had been scheduled to carry the Transit Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, into orbit from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Lt. Gen. Angus Campbell came to public attention as the commander of Operation Sovereign Borders, an operation established by a newly elected conservative government in 2013 to stop thousands of asylum seekers from the Middle East, Africa and Asia from re...

After the attack, the community members with dead bodies staged a protest demonstration and blocked roads disrupting traffic, alleging government's "failure" to end attacks on Christians, according to the report.

Regional powerhouses Saudi Arabia and Iran have been locked in a decades-long struggle for supremacy that is being waged in proxy wars in several countries, including Yemen and Syria.

in a speech in Dhahran in eastern Saudi Arabia, King Salman said east Jerusalem is an integral part of the Palestinian territories.

The combined US-French-British operation, which saw more than 100 cruise missiles smash into three chemical weapons facilities early Saturday, earned quick scorn from Russia, which pushed for a vote at the UN Security Council condemning the strikes.

The Algerie Presse service agency said the Iliouchine-type plane was headed for Bechar in south-western Algeria.

The wide-ranging questions — including about Cambridge Analytica, which used data scraped from 87 million Facebook users to target political ads ahead of the 2016 US election — put the 33-year-old billionaire under a microscope for several hours at a join...

Bossert joins a long list of other senior officials who have resigned or been fired since Trump took office in January 2017, including previous national security advisers Michael Flynn and H.R. McMaster.

Ri Yong Ho's visit came ahead of planned nuclear summits between the North's leader Kim Jong Un and the presidents of South Korea and the United States in the coming weeks.

In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister said the Kremlin would submit a resolution to the UNSC proposing that inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) investigate the alleged attack in Douma.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to testify before a joint hearing of the Senate Commerce and Judiciary Committees.

Touted as Xi Jinping's pet project, the BRI has become a major stumbling block in India-China relations as the controversial USD 50 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been listed as its "flagship project".

The Allosaurus which goes on sale on Wednesday, among 87 lots of natural artifacts, is considered "small" at 3.8 metres (12.5 feet) long.