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The project will be built on the Jhelum River and aims at annually providing more than five billion units of clean and low-cost electricity for consumers in Pakistan.

The highest increase in infection rates were detected on days when the maximum temperature was below minus 1 degrees Celsius, the study said.

Managers at Facebook have been told by the company's human resources department not to retaliate against staff who are planning to protest, or to make them used paid time-off.

Chinese state television reported that the Sichuan cases came on a flight from Egypt, and another six asymptomatic cases were found on the same flight.

The capital city of Baluchistan province remained partially shut down on Sunday after the lynching of the youth named Bilal Khan at a hair dresser's shop in Hazara town area on Friday night.

In a day of concerted action, the United States and Britain also raised alarm at the UN Security Council over a controversial new security law for Hong Kong, infuriating Beijing which said the issue had no place at the world body.

Justice minister Teresa Cheng said the basis for Trump's actions was 'completely false and wrong', saying national security laws were legal and necessary for the former British colony.

The waivers were part of the landmark agreement signed with Tehran in 2015 which sought to limit Iran's nuclear ambitions in return for lifting crippling economic sanctions.

The police said they did not fire any shots in the incident but had made some arrests. They had earlier tweeted that there was a large crowd in the downtown area around 2nd street.

On Tuesday, Twitter labelled tweets from Trump as "potentially misleading" — a move that led to the president accusing the social media platform of election meddling.

Actemra and remdesivir are being used separately in some settings and clinical trials, with the former drug used to tackle massive immune reactions that sometimes occur in patients stricken with the new coronavirus.

The House of Representatives voted with just one dissent in favor of the Uighur Human Rights Act, hours after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took a major step to press China on another major issue — the autonomy of Hong Kong.

The team of experts from an Airbus facility in the French city of Toulouse reached Pakistan on Monday to carry out an independent probe into Friday's mishap.

Trump in April said that because of the coronavirus, the event would likely have to be smaller than last year's "Salute to America" event on the National Mall that drew tens of thousands.

A first grader's homework on the Covid-19 lockdown is headed to a permanent museum collection instead of a parent’s refrigerator door, a novelty that underscores how far into uncharted waters curators are sailing.

across the United States, the heights of structures, landmarks, valleys, hills and just about everything else are about to change, at least with regard to average sea level. Most will get shorter.