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Swarms of locusts reach Gurugram, NCR area

A resident of Gurugram told NDTV that the locust attack started at 11 am. On Friday, the Gurgaon District Administration had issued a locust warning for the...

Lightning strikes kill over 100 in India as monsoon season begins

Gopalganj in north Bihar reported 13 deaths and several injuries due to lightning strikes during the thunderstorm on Friday, Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Upen...

Trump wants federal hiring to focus on title skills

President Donald Trump on Friday announced that he had signed an executive order to protect American monuments. Ivanka Trump speaks during a meeting with...

House Approves Measure To Make Washington, DC A State

Three Republicans joined Democrats in favor of passage and no Democrats were opposed. The vote is the culmination of decades of advocacy by Norton and stateho...

Video of official having sex in auto goes viral, United Nations orders probe

Inner City Press , an outlet that has reported and shined a light on corruption at the world body for years and was banned from reporting on U.N. grounds in NY ...

Humans try to take back Thai city from macaque hordes

Lopburi province and its 2,000 monkeys have always been a draw for tourists who feed them and pose with them for selfies. As foreign tourism - Thailand's cas...

Minneapolis Advances Plan To Replace Police

Council members say that if they can't get the ballot on the next general election, they'd have to wait to do it for November 2021. However, the city's mayor,...

Tate Modern: teenager jailed for 15 years for attempted murder

He has recovered the power of speech but remains in a wheelchair and frequently wakes up crying at night. The court was told the boy will require 24 hour care...

Millions of Yemeni children on the 'brink of starvation'

A UNICEF report warned of a rise of 20% in the number of malnourished children under the age of five - nearly half of all of that age in the country. A pledgi...

India passes 500000 coronavirus cases

Infections are expected to carry on rising steadily in India. Of the total 15,301 deaths reported so far, Maharashtra tops the tally with 6,931 deaths, foll...

UN Agency: New Records Verified for Greatest Distance, Duration of Lightning Flashes

A single lightning flash stretched more than 700 kilometres across Brazil past year - equivalent to the distance between Boston and Washington DC - has create...

Gov. Abbott Says Texans Should Wear Masks And Stay Home

Health care professionals have attempted to clarify these misconceptions on social media. He added, "We believe that face mask use, hand washing and social di...

Vaccine against COVID-19 not certain, maybe in a year

The WHO chief underlined the vital role of using oxygen concentrators as one of the most effective ways to save severe and critical COVID-19 patients' lives, as...

Ethiopia Agrees to Delay GERD Filling

The summit was held at the initiative of the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, and the necessity to reach a binding legal agreement to resolve the dam...

Canadian white police officer convicted for torturing black youth

It's worth noting that the Theriault brothers are white, while Miller is a young Black man who was only 19 at the time. But since the judge found that Mille...

Standoff worsens on China border

The 2013 standoff was resolved after three weeks and several rounds of meetings between senior military officials of the two sides. "The Chinese have ingressed ...

India Stands with Republic of Korea for Permanent Peace in Korean Peninsula: PM Modi

He speculated increasingly provocative military moves by North Korea in recent weeks may have been created to "take away the attention of North Korean people ...

Coronavirus outbreak: India's COVID-19 case tally breaches 5 lakh-mark

However, the number of recovered cases in the country has exceeded the number active cases by 96,173, the government has said. The total recovery now stands at ...

US House Passes Democratic Police Reform Bill as Impasse Deepens

The House voted one month after George Floyd , a Black man, died in the custody of Minneapolis police. Floyd's death sparked protests across the county a...

Russia Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill US Troops

The interviews uncovered that money was offered to Taliban-tied militants by Russian forces, believed by USA intelligence to involve Unit 29155 , a branch of...

Ireland to form new government after Green party votes for coalition

Under the new Cabinet, he is expected to take a role as an economy or business minister. Lawmakers from Ireland's two dominant center-right parties agreed to ...

Strong to severe thunderstorms possible this evening — WEATHER AUTHORITY ALERT

If we get some of that rain, it would lower our chance of strong storms later in the evening. While a stray thunderstorm can not be ruled out during the after...

United States sees daily record of 40,000 new coronavirus cases

Texas has also set record hospitalisations for 13 days in a row. There are concerns that the Texan city of Houston could turn into a new virus epicenter, wit...

North Korea to 'counter nuclear with nuclear' against US

The surprise move followed a build-up of anti-Seoul rhetoric and provocative threats from Pyongyang. The US still stations about 28,500 soldiers in South Korea ...

United Kingdom drops quarantine for arrivals from low Covid-19 risk countries

The government is expected to announce the reopening of worldwide travel to a list of countries on Monday 29 June. There were mixed reports on Thursday over...

International Day Against Drug Abuse And Illicit Trafficking 2020: Date, Theme, Significance

The celebration this year comes on this occasion, and the State of Qatar is moving forward in developing its awareness programs on drug risks, implementing rele...

Convicted murderer Jeremy Christian sentenced to life in prison

She said Mangum and Mohamed have both had trouble "engaging with the world". Taliesin Namkai-Meche, 23, and Ricky Best , 53, died from knife wounds to the ne...

Florida Orders Bars to Shut Down as Coronavirus Cases Hit New Record

Texas, another state that has seen its coronavirus cases spike in recent weeks, also imposed new restrictions on Friday, ordering bars to close and restaurants ...

Florida Department of Health releases Saturday COVID-19 update

It has also seen COVID-19 hospitalizations hit record highs for 11 days in a row. Bed capacity as of Monday is at 72 percent, with 13.3 percent of those being...

Texas halts reopening as coronavirus cases surge

The governor of the southern Campania region insisted that the workers who live in an apartment complex with dozens of Covid-19 cases stay inside for just over ...