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Zambia is reeling from a major cholera outbreak that has killed more than 400 people and infected more than 10,000, leading authorities to order schools across the country to remain shut after the end-of-year holidays. The Zambian government is embarking…

In a significant seismic event, a magnitude-5.6 earthquake rattled the region near Sola, in the Torba province of Vanuatu, an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers, a relatively shallow…

Voters in Taiwan elected Vice President Lai Ching-te as their next president on Saturday, defying warnings from Beijing not to support a candidate it has called a separatist and a “troublemaker.” China claims Taiwan as its own territory and has…

A volcano erupted in southwest Iceland on Sunday, with molten lava flows reaching the outskirts of a small fishing town by midafternoon, setting some houses alight, although the town was evacuated earlier and no people were in danger, authorities said.…

The collapse of an illegal small-scale gold mine has killed at least 22 people in northern Tanzania following heavy rains, a senior government official said on Sunday. The accident happened early on Saturday in the Simiyu region after a group…

Fauzia Janjua, a Pakistani-American, has made history by becoming the first Muslim and South Asian woman to serve as the mayor of Mount Laurel in New Jersey, USA. At her swearing-in ceremony at the Township Hall last week, Ms Janjua,…

Archaeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that were home to at least 10,000 farmers about 2,000 years ago. Recent mapping by laser-sensor technology revealed those sites to be part of a dense network of…

Türkiye’s state-run aid agency TIKA has renovated primary and secondary schools in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi. TIKA carried out the renovation work in two schools, whose capacities are now increased to nearly 500 students through the construction of additional…

The Indonesian writer and thinker Hendry Subrota has said that the dark and tragic events that took place in the Karbala in the Tuff Battle, represent a memory that will not be forgotten in the history of Islam, and will…

Pakistan’s military said Saturday its forces had raided a “terrorist” hideout in a volatile region bordering Afghanistan and killed five militants in the ensuing shootout. The “intelligence-based” overnight raid in the militancy-hit North Waziristan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province also…