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The 737 MAX, Boeing's best-selling jet, was grounded globally in March following the Ethiopian Airlines crash after a similar Lion Air disaster in Indonesia in October. The two crashes killed 346 people.

Trump, who is seeking re-election next year, has lost support, however, with Democrats and independents since the Sunday tweetstorm.

The resolution comes months after the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in its annual report in April raised concerns about incidents of forced conversions and marriages of Hindu and Christian girls, saying around 1,000 such cases were reported in the s...

Nepal has been hit by heavy rainfall since last Thursday. More than 25 districts have been affected and flood related incidents have displaced around 17,500 people where as 3,366 people stranded have been rescued by the security personnel.

The report is based on a survey of 2,388 US adults who use Twitter and gave Pew permission to review their personal public-facing accounts, between December 2018 and July 2019.

The statement comes amid a nationwide narcotics crackdown, with President Maithripala Sirisena aiming to reintroduce capital punishment for drug offences.

Prayuth Chan-ocha, in a televised address to the nation, said military rule had brought success in many areas, from fixing the problem of illegal fishing and human trafficking, to the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave last...

The magnitude 7.3 quake on Sunday was centered 166 kilometers (103 miles) southeast of Ternate, the capital of North Maluku province, at a depth of just 10 kilometers (6 miles).

The slowing economy makes it more difficult for President Xi Jinping to fight back forcefully against the US -- which is using tariffs as leverage to try to force Beijing into opening up its economy.

The US fears that if Ankara integrates the S-400 into its defences, data about the US-built F-35 fighter jet could leak back to the Russians, and Washington has threatened to deny Turkey access to the stealth aircraft.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks by three militants and said their fighters had positioned themselves in a building and were firing at the police headquarters.

US Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said he did not want to be a distraction to the administration's work because of his leadership of the Epstein case more than a decade ago.

Trump wants to distill a massive trove of data across seven government agencies and possibly across 50 states. It's far from clear how such varying systems can be mined, combined and compared.

The global Multidimensional Poverty Index looks at a person’s deprivations across 10 indicators in health, education and standard of living, and aims to identify 'who is poor and how they are poor'.

Lawmakers are also voting Thursday to authorize subpoenas for documents and testimony related to President Donald Trump's handling of immigration, including on the separation of migrant families at the southern border.

Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of Vatican employee, was last seen leaving a music class aged 15, and theories have circulated for decades about who took her and where her body may lie.