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His goal, he told the local press, was to ascend more than 1,500 meters (nearly one mile) to prove that the Earth is not round but shaped like a Frisbee.

It injured at least 25 people and damaged a number of houses in four villages of Iran's West Azerbaijan province, Mojtaba Khaledi, a spokesman for the country's emergency services, said.

Afghans have been sharing their hopes for peace on social media, tagging posts with hashtags in Dari and Pashto — Afghanistan's two main languages — that translate to #ifPeaceComes and #whenThereIsCeasefire.

Officers arrived to find a 62-year-old man, a 44-year-old woman and a 13-year-old girl dead.

EU Council President Charles Michel, who met with EU leaders throughout the night trying to broker a compromise, has tabled a draft budget of 1.074 per cent of GNI.

Bloomberg, the billionaire former New York mayor making his first debate appearance in the race, faced criticism from all his rivals on the stage in Las Vegas.

US State Department official said China has increasingly controlled and mobilized media since President Xi Jinping took office in 2013.

Investigators from both governments examined over 800 shipments, which identified 50 different FDA-regulated products, including medications intended to treat and or mitigate serious diseases, like cancer and HIV.

The epidemic that has killed over 1,860 people and affected 72,000 people has resulted in closing down tens of thousands of factories in China, impacting the global supply chain.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also referred to an apparent decline in new cases of the disease in recent days but said that the trend "must be interpreted very cautiously".

The hospital filed a highly unusual request for a court order to hospitalise 33-year-old Alla Ilyina after she posted on social media about breaking out of her isolation room, complaining of inedible food and a lack of necessities such as shampoo.

In the United States, in presidential elections held through 2012, the taller of the two major-party candidates won 58 percent of the time.

Everyone who had been on the ship would still be subject to quarantine on their return to the US, said Anthony Fauci, a senior official at the National Institutes for Health.

Periodic supply runs by Russia, Japan and NASA's two private shippers, Northrop Grumman and SpaceX, usually provide more than experiments, equipment, clothes and freeze-dried meals. They also bring family care packages as well as fresh food to offset the...

The Tornado aircraft came down Friday in northern Al-Jawf province during an operation to support government forces, a rare shooting down that prompted operations in the area by a Saudi-led military coalition fighting the rebels.

IMF's managing director Kristalina Georgieva said it was "too early" to assess the full impact of the epidemic but acknowledged that it had already affected sectors such as tourism and transportation.