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For the year 2019, the theme for World Soil Day is 'Stop soil erosion, Save our future'. It aims at raising awareness on the importance of sustaining healthy ecosystems and human well-being.

As the death toll climbed to 62, officials ordered all businesses and non-essential government services to close, shut down inter-island ferries and told people to keep their cars off the roads.

Meeting outside London to mark the 70th year of the Atlantic alliance, the members vowed to stick together against threats from Russia and terrorism and recognised the challenge of a rising China.

The hearing on Wednesday was the committee's first to examine whether Trump's actions qualify as 'high crimes and misdemeanours' punishable by impeachment under the US Constitution.

Three of the lawyers and the experts split much like the committee over whether Donald Trump committed an impeachable offense when he asked the president of Ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden.

The report by the House Intelligence Committee concluded that Trump sought to undermine American democracy and endangered national security, then worked to conceal his actions from Congress.

A Manhattan-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 against Donald Trump's bid to block two House of Representatives committees from enforcing subpoenas issued in April to the two banks seeking the documents.

One passenger died before the plane made an emergency landing at the Karachi airport, while the other two ailing passengers — a married couple — survived.

Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying repeated Chinese accusations Monday that the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act seriously interfered in Hong Kong's internal affairs, and appeared to back up China's threats that the US would bear the costs...

The case before the International Court of Justice in The Hague relates to a harsh counterinsurgency campaign waged by Myanmar’s military against members of the country’s Muslim Rohingya community in August 2017 in response to an insurgent attack.

In an unusually frank statement, Marise Payne said she was 'very concerned by reports from a recent consular visit to Australian citizen Dr Yang Hengjun'.

PM Boris Johnson, who has called a snap election for December 12 and is due to host NATO leaders, including US President Donald Trump next week, returned to Downing Street and was updated on the incident.

Fraught with fee hikes, harassment scandals and campus arrests, these students across Pakistan have been demanding better education and a free and fair academic environment.

About six in 10 Americans say they are at least 'somewhat worried' about global warming and 23 percent say they are 'very worried,' according to a survey conducted by Yale and George Mason universities in March and April.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn held up what he claimed were 451 pages of previously secret documents that proved Johnson was seeking to put the National Health Service (NHS) on the table in a post-Brexit trade deal.

The station was swamped by the tsunami, but survived with its cooling system intact, saving its reactors from the threat of meltdowns.