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Lakhvi was arrested over terror financing charges six days ago. The LeT commander, who was out on bail since 2015, was arrested by Punjab province's Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) and a case was registered in a Lahore police station.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned on Thursday, joining a list of officials quitting President Donald Trump's administration in protest at the storming of the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.

As officials sifted through the aftermath of the pro-Trump mob’s siege of the U.S. Capitol, there was growing discussion of impeaching him a second time or invoking the 25th Amendment to oust him from the Oval Office.

The top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia said Thursday that all options are on the table for charging members of the violent proTrump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol including sedition charges.

Stacey Abrams spent years crisscrossing Georgia, working to convince Democratic leaders, donors and prospective candidates that a vast, untapped well of potential voters could upend Republican domination in the state. There was no national media spotlight...

As part of a phased roll out since the jabs received regulatory approval last month, the vaccine has been trialed at selected hospitals in the country for surveillance purposes before being sent out to hundreds of community-based local vaccination service...

Its hard to decide whats most shocking in The Dissident, Bryan Fogels urgent, gripping new documentary about the horrific murder of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

A sober, shaken Senate returned to its hallowed chamber Wednesday night to slap away a frivolous election challenge, but its secondary purpose seemed to be to rise from the wreckage of a shocking day in which they were forced to flee the Capitol by a mob...

Violence erupted in the normally solemn home of the US legislature after hundreds of protesters seeking to overturn Trump's election loss swarmed the building in Washington.

China reported the biggest rise in daily COVID19 cases in more than five months on Thursday, driven by rising infections in Hebei province surrounding the capital Beijing.

Since the pandemic forced him into remote learning, 10yearold Jhay Ar Calma has often had to climb on to the corrugated iron roof of his home in a poor neighbourhood of Manila to get an internet signal.

The Justice Department said Wednesday that about 3% of its email accounts could be compromised as part of a massive breach of federal government agencies that U.S. officials have linked to Russia.

The European Commission gave approval on Wednesday for the use of the COVID19 vaccine developed by U.S. company Moderna, the final step in the EU's authorisation process.

The European Union should send coronavirus vaccines to its Balkan neighbours and do more to combat the virus in Ukraine, 13 of the EU's foreign ministers said in a joint letter to the bloc's executive on Wednesday.

Madrid's regional authorities launched an investigation on Wednesday into a report that a care home allowed priests and relatives of workers to be vaccinated against COVID19 in contravention of rules.

Switzerland plans to extend its lockdown restrictions by five weeks to the end of February, including closing all restaurants, cultural and recreational sites, the government said on Wednesday.