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The power cut knocked out traffic signals, forced school closures and shut businesses and government offices across northern and central California, according to Brian Ferguson, a spokesman for the state Office of Emergency Services.

The gunman fatally shot a woman outside the synagogue and a man inside a nearby kebab shop and seriously injured two others.

The closed door meeting, set for late Thursday morning, was requested by European members Belgium, France, Germany and Britain.

Talks with the EU to reach an agreement on Britain's departure have hit an impasse over the Irish backstop, an insurance policy to prevent the return to a hard border between the British province of Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland.

Between August 2018 and August 2019, the government has borrowed Rs 2,804 billion from foreign sources and Rs 4,705 billion from domestic sources.

Meanwhile, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said Turkish forces were attacking near the border.

The five family members were found in an Abington condominium complex at about 7:30 am by a relative who showed up to take the children to school.

Protests broke out at several universities in Dhaka and the northern city of Rajshahi following the killing of Abrar Fahad of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.

Wilson marched with the protesters on Sunday as they defied a new ban on face masks that was meant to deter rioting and calm the situation but has instead led to more anger.

The election will be the first since 1982 when the incumbent President, Prime Minister or opposition leader would not be a candidate.

Authorities had said the two men had apparently gotten into some sort of disagreement with people inside Tequila KC Bar, left, then returned with handguns early Sunday.

The journalist was burned on a 'small part of his face' and was in hospital, a spokeswoman for Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), the territory's public broadcaster, said.

Prime minister Khan will arrive in Beijing on Tuesday on a two-day visit to China, Pakistan's all-weather ally, during which he would meet the country's top leadership, including President Xi Jinping, and discuss issues of regional and bilateral significa...

The Bhutanese government's strong push to reduce malaria has seen cases being dropped dramatically, from a 1994 peak of about 40,000 cases (including 68 deaths) to 54 in 2018 (of which only six cases were indigenous), report says.

Only hours after Hong Kong's embattled leader Carrie Lam invoked emergency powers last used more than 50 years ago, mask-wearing protesters took to the streets on Friday, setting subway stations on fire, smashing mainland China banks and clashing with pol...

General (retd) Musharraf, 76, who has been living in Dubai since March 2016, is facing the treason case for suspending the Constitution in 2007, a punishable offence for which he was indicted in 2014.