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A young man was hit and killed by a train in Pakistan while being filmed walking along the tracks for a TikTok stunt, police and rescue officials said Saturday. The accident happened on Friday in the Shah Khalid neighbourhood of Rawalpindi city, near the capital Islamabad. Hamza Naveed, 18, was …

Five people died as a fire tore through a building in the world’s biggest vaccine manufacturing hub in India Thursday, but the company insisted the production of drugs to counter the coronavirus pandemic would continue. Rescue workers discovered five bodies in the under-construction building after the blaze at the Serum …

Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Chinese internet behemoth Alibaba, made his first public appearance in over two months in an online video Wednesday, ending weeks of speculation about his whereabouts. Ma — one of China’s richest people with a fortune estimated at around $58 billion — disappeared from the …

The World Health Organization and Beijing could have acted faster when Covid-19 first surfaced in China, a group investigating the global response has concluded. In its second report, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response said that an evaluation of the “chronology of the early phase of the outbreak …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday urged new US President Joe Biden to “strengthen” a long-standing alliance between the two countries, partly to confront the “threat” posed by Iran. “I look forward to working with you to further strengthen the US-Israel alliance, to continue expanding peace between Israel and …

Iran’s president on Wednesday hailed the White House departure of “tyrant” Donald Trump, saying “the ball is in America’s court” to return to a landmark nuclear deal and lift sanctions on Tehran. Biden, who became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, has signalled a willingness to return …

The US Senate trial of former president Donald Trump will begin the second week of February, after the article of impeachment is transmitted to the chamber early next week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday. “Once the briefs are drafted, presentation by the parties will commence the week of …

Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday slammed China’s “cynical” move on the new US president’s inauguration day to sanction nearly 30 officials from Donald Trump’s outgoing government, including his secretary of state Mike Pompeo. According to Beijing, “some anti-China politicians in the United States, out of their selfish political interests and …

Camped out in bare offices, President Joe Biden’s new White House team has spent its first three days scrambling for things like binder clips and IT support oh, and trying to save the country from multiple crises. They took over leadership of the world’s most powerful, wealthy and innovative nation …

Standing out in a crowd of glamorously dressed guests, Bernie Sanders showed up for the US presidential inauguration in a heavy winter jacket and patterned mittens — with an AFP photo of the veteran leftist spawning the first viral meme of the Biden era. The senator from the northeastern state …