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According to data from Brazil's space research agency, deforestation in the world's largest tropical rainforest totaled 920 square km (355 square miles).

With foreign exchange reserves shrinking to only $7.3 billion and the budget deficit set to top 7% of GDP this year, Pakistan faces tough economic medicine to tackle problems that have been years in the making.

United Nations Libya envoy Ghassan Salame condemned the strike, saying it 'clearly amounts to the level of a war crime'.

The first meeting of officials to finalise the modalities of the landmark corridor was held in Attari in the shadow of escalating bilateral tensions in March following the Pulwama terror attack by a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed.

Local residents rushed to collect the leaking gasoline for over an hour before the fuel caught fire, causing a blast that tore through the surrounding area.

Shanmugam Sampathkumar, 33, Murugesan Saravanan, 42, and 49-year-old Arumugam Chelladurai are Indian nationals. The fourth employee - Pang Wei Koon, 46, is from Malaysia.

The 49 containers were loaded with a combination of garbage, plastic waste and hazardous materials in violation of import rules, according to customs officials on Batam island.

Working across four programmes in the states of Delhi and Gujarat, the Development Impact Bond helped deliver programmes to 600 schools, reaching over 100,000 students aged 5-11 in year one.

The cartoon refers to the image of Oscar Alberto Martinez and his 23-month-old daughter, Angie Valeria, lying face down in water surrounded by reeds. The two drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande River to get into the US.

The summit marked a third attempt to fill the EU's five top posts for at least the next five years, forging policy for the world's biggest free-trade area and more than 500 million people.

Science and Technology Minister Fawad Chaudhry said this would be the first high-level engagement between the two countries while peace talks between the US and Taliban are entering a critical phase.

June 30 is observed as the International Asteroid Day in order to raise public awareness about the possible hazardous impacts of asteroids.

It all depends on Kim Jong Un, it seems, after Donald Trump on Saturday issued a public invitation for a handshake along the Korean Demilitarized Zone.

US President Donald Trump tweeted that surprise invitation to Kim Jong-Un at a G20 summit in Japan and even a short meeting at the line dividing the two Koreas would be a remarkable diplomatic spectacle.

District chief Fazeluddin Muradi says that the insurgents' attack also wounded at least eight pro-government fighters, during several hours of battle late Friday in the area of Nahrin.

A photo handout by the US Air Force's Central Military Command shows five F-22 jets flying above the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. The jets were reportedly deployed 'to defend American forces and interests' in the Gulf.