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American R&B singer Akon is moving ahead with plans to create a futuristic panAfrican city, announcing Monday that construction will begin next year on the $6 billion project despite global tourism's uncertain future.

French President Emmanuel Macron returned to Lebanon on Monday, a country in the midst of an unprecedented crisis, for a twoday visit and a schedule packed with events and political talks aimed at charting a way out for the country.

A federal judge on Monday blocked U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees from conducting the initial screening for people seeking asylum, dealing a setback to one of the Trump administrations efforts to rein in asylum.

In a related development, the university also extended the date of registration for the monsoon semester till September 4. The JNUSU has been calling for a postponement of the registration process.

These "overground workers" were in contact with their Pakistani handler (LeT) Mohd Qasim of Mahore who had exfiltrated to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in 2002, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Reasi, Rashmi Wazir said here.

While the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) is scheduled to be held on September 13, engineering entrance exam JEE-Main has been planned from September 1-6.

A five-judge constitution bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra was not in agreement with the previous judgement and held that those were the views confined to the facts of those cases only.

Comments by a senior U.S. official and moves by Britain towards the possible fasttracking of COVID19 vaccines show the West now accepts Russia was right to approve a vaccine as early as August, a Russian official said on Monday.

A Kansas man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in connection with the deaths of two people and the disappearance of two teenage girls more than 20 years ago.

One of three black bear cubs orphaned by the recent death of their famous mother was captured Monday morning and will be taken a rehabilitation center for the winter.

The HAM chief had invited some non-NDA and non-Grand Alliance parties, including Jan Adhikar Party of former MP Pappu Yadav, to discuss the strategy for the Bihar elections that is due in October-November.

After years of legal disputes, officials with the U.S. Department of Energy and South Carolina have inked a $600 million settlement over the storage of plutonium at a former nuclear weapons plant in the state, the largest legal settlement in South Carolin...

Congolese Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege has urged European Union nations to bring people accused of war crimes and other major abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo to justice.

The teams will also guide the states in effectively managing the challenges related to timely diagnosis and follow up, the ministry said in a statement.

When the New York Police Department fired an officer last year for putting Eric Garner in a deadly chokehold, the officer's union argued that there was little, if any, precedent within the department's internal disciplinary system for such a penalty.

Czech Senate speaker Milos Vystrcil will "pay a heavy price" for making an official trip to Taiwan, the Chinese government's top diplomat said on Monday, prompting Prague to summon China's ambassador to explain comments it said "crossed the line".