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Dolezal apparently resigned under pressure from the NAACP

"We are in the process of finalising the first National Policy on Drug Demand Reduction, which involves the Government, Non-Governmental Organisations and other stakeholders," the Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment said in Shillong.

Four Indian languages including Hindi can be chosen while appearing for driving tests in Dubai in the UAE from September.

At least eight people have been killed in the disaster, including three zoo workers, and 10 others are missing.

A Houthi representative said that the Houthis objected to the idea of two separate delegations to the talks-one representing the embattled government, and one seen as representing a "coup."

"We need to get away from the principle of being a closed club," Johann-Dietrich Woerner said.

The verdict draws a line under four years of legal proceedings for a man whose strong prospects of becoming French president were destroyed by a New York chamber maid's accusations of sexual assault in 2011.

The US is experiencing a worldwide delay in processing of visa and passports at its overseas missions, including India, due to technical difficulties.

Zimbabweans have until September to turn in their old banknotes, which some people sell as souvenirs to tourists.

Pakistan Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry did not submit any dossier on alleged Indian activities inside his country during meetings with top US officials in Washington.

According to Keele University, England, a 15-year-old boy has spotted a new planet. The school pupil was on work experience at the university when he made the discovery.

Al-Qaeda's reclusive chief Ayman al-Zawahiri is cut off from his top commanders and keeping the outfit afloat only through loyalty as the once world's most feared terror group is steadily losing recruits and funding sources to its splinter faction - the I...

A landslide triggered by heavy rainfall buried six villages in Nepal's mountainous northeast, and at least 15 people sleeping in the homes are believed to have been killed and another 12 are missing, an official said Thursday.

A volcano in western Indonesia that has been spewing clouds of searing gas high into the air let out a new powerful burst on Wednesday.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on Monday urged Myanmar leaders to take "immediate action" to prevent the persecution of the country's Rohingya Muslims, most of whom are considered by the government to be illegal immigrants.

The death toll in the Chinese cruise ship that capsized in the mighty Yangtze river on Saturday jumped to nearly 400 as hundreds more bodies were found by disaster teams, making it China's deadliest boat disaster in 70 years.