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ISLAMABAD Education officials in Pakistan say authorities will start reopening schools from Sept. 15 amid a steady decline in coronavirus deaths and infections.

Britain's tortuous divorce from the European Union veered into fresh crisis on Monday after London threatened to undermine the exit agreement unless free trade terms are agreed by next month.

The Paraguayan government must investigate "impartially and without delay" the deaths of two 11yearold girls in a police and military operation against a rebel group in the north of the country, the regional office of the United Nations High Commissioner...

China will hold further military exercises from Monday along its northeast and eastern coast, the government said, the latest in a series of unusual backtoback drills against a backdrop of rising regional tension.

The Saudiled coalition forces fighting in Yemen late on Sunday intercepted and destroyed an explosiveladen drone fired by Iranaligned Houthis targeting Saudi Arabia's southern region, Saudi state news agency (SPA) said.

The leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Sunday warned Israel that his organization has missiles capable of striking the city of Tel Aviv, Israels commercial and cultural center, and areas beyond it.

Guinea's main opposition party announced Sunday that it will take part in next month's presidential election despite its concerns that President Alpha Conde's bid for a third term is undemocratic.

Russia first treated Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny for suspected poisoning, but doctors changed their minds after six hours when laboratory tests came back that found no traces of poison in his system, one of the doctors who treated him has said.

Nigeria's government plans to deliver humanitarian aid supplies by air to people in remote communities in parts of the northeast that have been ravaged by the decadelong Islamist insurgency spearheaded by Boko Haram.

Lebanon's top Christian cleric said on Sunday a new government must deliver urgent economic and other reforms in the national interest, rather than returning to past corrupt ways that have plunged the Middle Eastern nation into an economic crisis.

Bruges mayor Dirk De fauw first realized something was desperately wrong with European tourism when on a brisk March morning he crossed the Burg square in front of the Gothic city hall and there was nothing but silence.

Contemplating if there could be a second wave of the viral infections, scientists suggest that second waves of resistant infections occur after the capacity for treatment and isolation becomes exhausted.

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in the Asian financial hub of Hong Kong on Sunday to demonstrate against a new national security law imposed by China and the postponement of legislative elections.

The death toll from a gas pipeline explosion in a Bangladesh mosque rose to 24 while authorities were examining how a leakage caused the accident during evening prayers.

The incident took place Saturday in Turbat, a town in Baluchistan province, local police official Mohammad Mohsin said. He identified the slain journalist as Shaheena Shaheen, saying she worked for state-run Pakistan Television.

Japan's next prime minister could call a snap general election shortly after taking office next week, a senior member of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) said on Sunday, according to Kyodo news.