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The Marine Environment Protection Authority readied oil dispersants, booms and skimmers in case of a leak from the MV X-Press Pearl, which has nearly 350 tonnes of oil in its fuel tanks.

The area in eastern DRC's North Kivu province has been prey since 2014 to attacks by the Allied Democratic Forces.

The case, detected in a male aged 41 living in Zhenjiang, a city in the eastern province, was transmitted from poultry.

There's no data yet on how effective mix and match schedules are in preventing COVID-19. But they're likely to work well as the immune response is similar, or even better.

The Kamloops Indian Residential School was the largest of 139 boarding schools set up in the late 19th century to assimilate Canada's indigenous peoples.

U.K. newspapers are reporting that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiance Carrie Symonds married Saturday in a small private ceremony in London.

Qatar's public prosecution has charged a Kenyan man who has written about migrant rights in the Gulf Arab state with receiving payment to spread disinformation, the government's communication office (GCO) said on Saturday.

The cargo vessel was carrying a consignment of chemicals and raw materials for cosmetics from Hazira in Gujarat to Colombo Port on May 20

Australia considers the incarceration of a ChineseAustralian writer who has been tried in Beijing for alleged espionage a case of arbitrary detention, the foreign minister said on Friday.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will visit the Interstate 40 bridge connecting Tennessee and Arkansas that's been indefinitely closed after a crack was found in one of its steel beams.

An investigation has cleared British Prime Minister Boris Johnson of wrongdoing in the scandal over the redecoration of his official Downing Street residence, concluding that he knew nothing about'' how the project was financed until reports surfaced in t...

Assad's government says the election on Wednesday shows Syria is functioning normally despite the decade-old conflict.

Patients and staff at Childrens Hospital New Orleans have chosen Madu as the name for an endangered Sumatran orangutan born in February at the city's zoo. The word is Malay for honey.

An internal investigation into an apparent bureaucratic blunder by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolfs administration that scuttled a statewide voter referendum sought by victims of childhood sexual abuse found no evidence of a deliberate attempt to derail it.

A judge ordered Honolulu officials to turn over unedited police body camera footage to attorneys representing the family of a South African citizen who was shot and killed by police after he entered a home that wasnt his.

Gov. Tom Wolf on Wednesday pardoned an eye doctor who said he began growing marijuana to help his dying wife reduce her use of opioids.