Dozens of people were killed in a pre-dawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India yesterday, police sources and a Reuters witness said, as tens of millions gathered to take a dip in sacred river waters on the most auspicious day of a six-week Hindu festival.

Japan saw a record number of suicides among school pupils in 2024, health ministry data showed yesterday.

The aircraft came down near the oil fields in Unity State at around 10:30 am local time (0830 GMT) shortly after taking off for the capital Juba

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Kumbh Mela has a woeful safety record and celebrations have once again been overshadowed by a stampede

Trump last week paused development assistance from the US Agency for International Development for 90 day

The latest data among those in elementary through high school edged up to 527 from 513 cases in 2023, the ministry said.

The Chinese enjoy eight consecutive public holidays for the 2025 Spring Festival, an opportunity to share meals, attend traditional performances, and set off firecrackers and fireworks

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Chemonics and USAID did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.

Acting US Ambassador to the UN Dorothy Shea did not specify to the 15-member council what action could be taken. The council has the authority to impose sanctions.

Here is a list of major stampedes in India over previous years, most of them at religious festivals or gatherings

In July, a UN-backed review declared famine in Zamzam, a decades-old displacement camp home to between 500,000 and a million people.

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The M23 armed group took control of Goma's airport on Tuesday, a security source said, following days of intense clashes that killed more than 100 people and wounded nearly 1,000

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US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Chinese start-up DeepSeek's technology should act as spur for American companies and said it was good that companies in China have come up with a cheaper, faster method of artificial intelligence.

Pakistan criminalised online disinformation yesterday, passing legislation that enshrines punishments of up to three years in prison, a decision journalists say is designed to crack down on dissent.

A new strain of bird flu has been confirmed at a duck farm in California, the first time the variant has been discovered in poultry in the United States, an international agency said.

The European Union and Britain yesterday crossed swords at the world’s oldest arbitration body over rights to fish a tiny North Sea species, with Brussels accusing London of “inconsistencies” over a key post-Brexit trade deal.