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British radio host Sideman quit the BBC on Saturday over the corporations decision to include a racial slur in a news report about a racist attack.

Fuel spilling from a Japanese bulk carrier that ran aground on a reef in Mauritius two weeks ago is creating an ecological disaster, endangering corals, fish and other marine life around the Indian Ocean island, officials and environmentalists say.

An unknown gunman has killed two Lebanese nationals on the streets of the Iranian capital, local media reported on Saturday.

Authorities in a city in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia issued a warning after a patient who had bubonic plague died of multiple organ failure, state media reported on Saturday.

Nearly 600 children were admitted to U.S. hospitals with a rare inflammatory syndrome associated with the novel coronavirus over four months during the peak of the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a report on Friday.

In announcing the bans -- to take effect in 45 days -- Trump declared Thursday that Chinese mobile apps "threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States."

Preliminary official data published Friday indicate that deforestation in Brazil's Amazon region over the past 12 months could be at a 14year high, adding to concerns that President Jair Bolsonaro has failed to rein in destruction of the worlds largest tr...

Giving a new life to plastic trash gets Carlos Bento out of bed every morning. But the coronavirus pandemic has seen revenues drop up to 40% at Micronipol, the large recycling facility he runs in central Portugal, and it faces an uncertain future.

Hardip Singh Khaira, from Coatbridge in North Lanarkshire, will be disqualified for nine years starting Thursday.

Some 4,000 British Airways workers are learning Friday whether they will be fired as the airline slashes jobs amid the drop in demand and travel restrictions stemming from the COVID19 pandemic.

Indias Supreme Court on Friday declined an Indian government plea to end the prosecution of two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen in 2012 until it has heard from the victims' families on the issue of Italian compensation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the leader of Belarus on Friday to release 33 Russian security contractors who were arrested on charges of planning to foment unrest ahead of the country's presidential election.

The British government will spend up 355 million pounds ($465 million) to help businesses in Northern Ireland deal with the red tape caused by Brexit, officials said Friday.

A Belgian court on Friday rejected Spains demand to have a former highranking politician from the region of Catalonia extradited back to the country to be tried for his alleged role in an independence referendum that Madrid branded as illegal.

Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, in addition to his duties as the Director General for South Asia and SAARC, will also look after the work of the spokesperson vice Farooqui, an official notification said.

Beirut's blast destroyed Lebanon's only portbased grains silo, with plans for another in the country's second largest port Tripoli shelved years ago due to a lack of funding, the U.N.'s FAO representative in Lebanon, director of Tripoli port and a regiona...