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The August 4 blast, which killed more than 170 people, wounded thousands and left tens of thousands homeless, is believed to have been caused when a fire touched off a stockpile of 2,750 tonnes of highly explosive ammonium nitrate.

In late April, a coalition of New Mexico healthcare systems began asking local COVID19 survivors to donate their plasma, the antibodyrich blood product used to help treat people hospitalized with the disease.

No Iranian ships or gasoline cargoes have been seized, an unnamed official told Iran's state news agency on Friday, following reports that four Iranian fuel cargoes had been transferred to other ships for transport to U.S. waters.

Afghanistan has released the first 80 of a final 400 Taliban prisoners, paving the way for negotiations between the warring sides in Afghanistans protracted conflict, the government said Friday.

More than a quarter of South Korea’s medical clinics closed on Friday for a oneday strike in protest at government plans to train new doctors, as the country reported the highest number of domestic coronavirus cases since the end of March.

Belgian hospitals are stockpiling drugs and protective kits and putting in place contingency plans amid a continuing spike in new COVID19 infections that has forced the capital Brussels to make face masks compulsory in public spaces.

The U.S. ambassador to Uzbekistan has urged the Central Asian nation and its neighbour Kyrgyzstan to set free an Uzbek journalist detained on suspicion of anonymously criticising the government on social media.

For more than 70 years, the US and Pakistan have worked together on issues of critical importance, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.

A leading terror suspect who has been linked to beheadings of hostages, including two Canadians and a Malaysian, has surrendered after being wounded in battle, officials said Friday.

Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden on Thursday called on all U.S. governors to mandate mask wearing to slow the spread of the coronavirus that has killed more than 165,000 people in the United States.

New Zealand on Friday reported 12 new confirmed cases of coronavirus for the last 24 hours as the country awaits an announcement from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on whether a lockdown in its biggest city will be eased or extended.

China reported 30 new coronavirus cases on the mainland on Aug. 13, up from 19 on the previous day, the country's health authority said on Friday.

Three men who were wrongly imprisoned for more than 35 years each for a murder they did not commit filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Baltimore police, saying authorities coerced statements from witnesses whose testimony led to their convictions.

Any potential COVID19 vaccine backed by the Trump administration's "Operation Warp Speed" program is unlikely to receive a green light from regulators any earlier than November or December, given the time needed for a largescale clinical trial, the Nation...

Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is among those who appeared at a briefing advising U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on the economy, his campaign disclosed on Thursday.

The Saudiled coalition fighting the Houthi movement in Yemen said it intercepted and downed an armed drone and two ballistic missiles launched towards a southern part of Saudi Arabia on Thursday, in a statement carried by state news agency SPA.