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Just hours after Wang delivered a press conference on the state of the Chinese economy, the Central Commission on Discipline Inspection announced that he is under investigation for “serious violations of party discipline,” which usually refers to corruption.

A service to mark Holocaust Memorial Day will take place at St John the Baptist Church, Peterborough on Wednesday January 27 at noon.

“Zika is following the same path. It’s using a very similar mosquito vector introduced into Brazil, a large population area, and now has spread through Nicaragua, Colombia, going through the Mediterranean”.

The tests reinforce concerns about flare-ups of the virus that has killed more than 11,300 people since 2013 in the world’s deadliest outbreak of Ebola.

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China’s state-run media has warned Taiwan’s president-elect Tsai Ing-wen against pursuing a pro-independence path and that a formal split from the mainland would be a “dead end”.

Nikos Toskas, a deputy interior minister, said it was hard to stop some refugee-laden boats “except via sinking or shooting”.

Urvoas has been named Justice Minister Wednesday Jan.27, 2016 after Justice Minister Christiane Taubira has resigned, objecting to President Francois Hollande’s push to revoke citizenship from convicted terrorists with dual nationality.

USA crude supplies probably rose by 4.1 million barrels last week, a Bloomberg survey showed before an Energy Information Administration report.

Yet underscoring the strain that continues to exist between the USA and Iran, the Obama administration also announced new penalties Sunday on 11 individuals and entities involved in Tehran’s ballistic missile program.

While the exact correlation between a Zika infection and microcephaly is unclear, officials believe that pregnant women who are bitten by infected mosquitoes may be transmitting the virus to their fetuses through the placenta.

The Aedes aegypti can spread the Zika virus, which is spreading in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean and usually causes a mild illness but is now suspected in an unusual birth defect and possibly other health issues.

The head of the Syrian opposition’s negotiating team said he was not optimistic about upcoming peace talks, casting further doubt on whether the group will attend meetings planned for Friday in Geneva.

Hassan Khomeini, 43, a grandson of Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, talks to journalists after he registered for February’s election of the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that chooses the supreme leader, at Interior Ministry in Tehran December 18, 2015. The...

Jerry Johnson, spokesman for the Genesee Intermediate School District, said they are also trying to identify children that may live in surrounding communities who are connected to city water, also known as franchise customers, as well as identifying children that live in the...