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Washington: At least two people were killed in a school shooting in Chicago, CBS News reports citing Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown.The shooting occurred on Friday afternoon, near Benito Juarez High School in Chicago’s Lower West Side neighborhood Pilsen.Two...

Washington: US billionaire and Twitter owner Elon Musk announced on Saturday that he would immediately restore the suspended accounts of journalists from leading American news outlets on the social network after the majority of a survey respondents voted for...

Los Angeles: The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched the newest Earth science satellite to track nearly all the water on Earth surface.The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft was launched atop a SpaceX rocket at...

Lima: Peru's Congress rejected a bill to bring forward general elections from 2026 to December 2023, as protests continued across the country.Hernando Guerra, president of the legislative constitution commission, presented the bill and explained that it would allow "enough...

New York: The UN Security Council decided to extend the mandate of the team monitoring sanctions against Taliban-linked entities in Afghanistan.Unanimously adopting Resolution 2665on Friday, the council decided to extend for 12 months the mandate of the team monitoring...

Geneva:Climate change has driven an unprecedented number of larger and more deadly cholera outbreaks around the world this year, the UN health agency, World Health Organisation (WHO) said."The map is under threat (from cholera) everywhere," Dr. Philippe Barboza, WHO...

Beijing: China and Japan should treat each other as cooperation partners rather than create threats, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Friday."We urge Japan to strictly abide by the basic principles of the four Sino-Japanese diplomatic documents,...

Jakarta: The number of people killed by last month's earthquake in the Indonesian province of West Java has been confirmed at 602 after final tabulation, the Cianjur county government said on Friday.A 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit West Java's Cianjur...

Kuala Lumpur: At least 13 people have been killed and others remained trapped in a landslide that happened in Malaysia's Selangor state at around 2:00 am local time on Friday, according to the authorities.The landslide occurred at a popular...

Washington: The US House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday that would set a vote on Puerto Rico's political status.The bill -- titled the Puerto Rico Status Act -- went through the House in a 233-191 vote.The measure, if...