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Beijing: Beijing authorities issued an orange alert for heavy air pollution which came into force on Monday at noon.The orange alert, the second highest in Beijing's warning system, is triggered when the city experiences two consecutive days of severe...

Mexico City: The death toll from Hurricane Otis has risen to 39 in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, with 10 people reported missing, the Mexican government said on Saturday.Some 80 percent of hotel infrastructure is estimated to have...

Istanbul: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday accused the West of failing to stop the Israeli offensive and slammed Israel's attacks on Gaza.Addressing a pro-Palestinian rally, Erdogan said "it's the West that is most responsible" for the killing...

Ulan Bator: A flu vaccination campaign is underway among high-risk groups across Mongolia free of charge, the country's health ministry said Sunday.The annual vaccination campaign is part of efforts to prevent respiratory infections, including seasonal flu, the ministry said...

Tokyo: Japan has logged the 1,000th case of organ donations from brain-dead people, 26 years after the country's organ transplant law came into force in 1997, according to the Japan Organ Transplant Network.The 1,000th donor was a man in...

Sydney: An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 jolted 55 km WNW of Isangel, Vanuatu, at 0432 GMT on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.The epicenter, with a depth of 79.9 km, was initially determined to be at...

Cairo: At least 32 people were killed and 63 others injured on Saturday in multiple vehicle collisions on a desert road near Egypt's Beheira governorate, according to the country's Ministry of Health.Security investigations showed the accident was caused by...

Boston: In a highly anticipated and intellectually stimulating event, the mystic, yogi, and spiritual leader, Sadhguru, and the renowned experimental psychologist and author, Steven Pinker, shared the stage at the prestigious Harvard Medical School’s Sanders Theatre, Boston, to discuss...

Astana: At least 21 people were killed in a fire at the Kostenko mine in Kazakhstan's Karaganda Region, with 18 injured miners in hospital, according to local reports on Saturday.Twenty-one bodies have been found so far, and 23 miners...

Islamabad: At least one terrorist and two soldiers were killed on Friday in two separate terror incidents in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, a military statement said.One terrorist was killed and two others injured in an intelligence-based operation...