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Uvalde, United States: A teenage gunman killed 18 young children in a shooting at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, in the deadliest US school shooting in years. The attack in Uvalde, Texas -- a small community about an hour from…

Canberra: Australia's new centre-left Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took office Monday a few hours before flying out to attend an international summit in Tokyo. Albanese, who says Australia is willing to engage with the world on…

Montreal: Four people have died and over 900,000 homes have lost power in the eastern Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, authorities said Saturday. According to Ontario police, three individuals were killed and several more were…

Islamabad: Lauding India for not buckling under the "US pressure" and buying discounted oil from Russia, former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that his government was also working on the same thing with the help of an…

London: Europe and North America have detected dozens of cases of monkeypox, a virus that passes from infected animals such as rodents to humans. The World Health Organization said it was coordinating with health officials over the new…

Montreal: Health authorities in Canada's Quebec province are investigating more than a dozen suspected cases of monkeypox, a rare but potentially serious virus, public broadcaster CBC reported Wednesday. The United States on Wednesday…

Pyongyang: The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the Covid-19 outbreak in North Korea is worrying for new variants of the virus, as the country is battling a rapid spread of a mysterious fever since late April. Addressing a…

Washington: A US presidential advisory commission has unanimously voted to recommend President Joe Biden to process all applications for green cards or permanent residency within six months. To be sent to the White House now for…

Washington: The US Air Force said it had conducted a successful test of a hypersonic weapon, which flew at five times the speed of sound. The test was conducted on Saturday off the coast of Southern California when a B-52 bomber released…

Colombo: Sri Lanka's new prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Monday the crisis-hit nation was down to its last day of petrol, as the country's power minister told citizens not to join the lengthy fuel queues that have galvanised…