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The victim's father, Shaukat Mukaddam, has served as Pakistan's ambassador to South Korea and Kazakhstan.

A snow leopard at the San Diego Zoo has tested positive for the coronavirus.

China, Bhutan, Sweden, Hungary and New Zealand have told citizens they can remove their masks. Israel did so on June 15, but brought them back days later amid a rise in cases.

For the second time this week, U.S. forces on Friday conducted an airstrike against the alShabab extremist group in Somalia. The earlier strike, on Tuesday, was the first in Somalia since President Joe Biden took office in January.

The Taliban's claim came after the group captured key border crossings with Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Pakistan in recent weeks in a staggering offensive launched as US-led foreign forces began their final troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

In the first big challenge to the proposed $26 billion national opioid settlement, the Philadelphia district attorney on Thursday sued Pennsylvanias attorney general over the deal, saying the city stands to get only a pittance to cope with an epidemic tha...

Greece was searching for migrants who went missing after their sailing boat sank off the island of Crete, its shipping ministry said on Thursday.

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic's road to the Golden Slam is not an easy one, with possible matches against Andrey Rublev and Alexander Zverev in his path at the Tokyo Olympics.

The U.N. Security Council on Thursday rejected a resolution put forward by Russia and China that would have immediately stripped the powers of the international high representative overseeing implementation of the 1995 peace agreement that ended the devas...

Biden, speaking Wednesday night at a televised town hall in Cincinnati, said the public health crisis has turned largely into a plight of the unvaccinated as the spread of the delta variant has led to a surge in infections around the country..

Peruvian police said on Wednesday they had dismantled an alleged criminal ring that had charged as much $21,000 per bed for seriously ill COVID19 patients in a staterun hospital, aggravating care in a country hit by one of the world's deadliest outbreaks...

Spain's recovery plan needs the support of U.S. investment, Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said in a Reuters Newsmaker event during a trip to the United States where he highlighted his country's improving economic prospects.

An antigovernment hip hop song by some of Cuba's most popular musicians in exile became the anthem of the unprecedented protests that rocked the Communistrun country last week.

The record floods that have devastated parts of Germany and killed at least 170 in the country are estimated to have caused more than 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) in insured losses, actuary company MSK said on Tuesday.

China claims sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, angering its regional neighbours and triggering protests further afield including from the US government.

It is almost 220 meters wide and will be zooming by at a distance of 28, 70, 847, 607 km, which is nearly eight times the distance between the Earth and Moon