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JACKSON: Residents in several towns across Louisiana and Mississippi took cover as tornado sirens blared late on Tuesday, and forecasters warned of the threat of strong twisters capable of tracking long distances on the ground as a…

RAMALLAH: Israeli forces killed five Palestinians, including a driver who had apparently rammed into a soldier, in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli and Palestinian officials said, the latest casualties in violence that has…

BEIJING: Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who led his country out of isolation after the crushing of pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square and supported economic reforms that led to a decade of explosive growth, has died, state…

LONDON/JOHANNESBURG: Sri Lanka owed Chinese lenders $7.4 billion - nearly a fifth of its public external debt - by the end of last year, calculations by the China Africa Research Initiative(CARI) published on Wednesday showed, an…

TOKYO: Alibaba founder Jack Ma has been living in Tokyo for almost six months after disappearing from public view following China's crackdown on the tech sector, the Financial Times reported Wednesday, citing multiple unnamed sources.…

KARACHI: A suicide bomber from the banned Pakistani Taliban blew himself up near a patrolling police truck carrying security personnel to protect polioworkers in the restive Balochistan province on Wednesday, killing at least four…

BEIJING: China’s top law enforcement body pledged to crack down on “hostile forces” and their “sabotage,” comments that appeared intended as a warning to protesters angry about Covid-19 policies and to provide justification for…

BUCHAREST: Ukraine urged Nato members Tuesday to speed up weapons deliveries and help restore its shattered power grid, as Western allies vowed to bolster support to aid Kyiv through winter in the face of Russia's attacks. Moscow has…

BEIJING: At the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, China set out its "zero-COVID" measures that were harsh, but not out of line with what many other countries were doing to try and contain the virus. While most other nations saw the…

WASHINGTON: The Biden administration is weighing whether to label Russia’s Wagner Groupas a foreign terrorist organization, two people familiar with the matter said, as part of efforts to handicap the privately owned military company’s…