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Chinese Olympic women’s swimmer Chen Xinyi tested positive for a banned substance at the Rio Olympics on August 7, state media said on Friday citing the country’s swimming association, the latest doping scandal to mar competition at the Games.

President Duterte has offered a public apology to Chief Justice Maria Lourdes P.A. Sereno after berating her for questioning his list of government officials allegedly involved in illegal drugs.

“The critical issue is to make sure that those local cases don’t become disseminated and don’t become sustained and the way you do that is with very aggressive mosquito abatement programs”, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of...

Portugal has also been severly affected by wildfires, which have left 4 people dead and many injured in the country. “It’s progressing fast”, he said on BFM-TV.

The quake was 10km deep and was recorded as being magnitude 7.6.

Aleppo, once Syria’s economic hub and one of the oldest cities in the Middle East, has been roughly divided between government forces in the west and rebel groups in the east since fighting there first broke out in 2012.

Coalitions will not be easy to build since the ANC has called them “tactical marriages of convenience” and said that it could not enter a coalition with the DA. And the Democratic Alliance which primarily drew support from White South Africans, won the most votes in...

Meghwal said after 50 per cent of the states ratify the constitutional amendment bill, three laws – central GST, inter-state GST and state GST – will be formed.

While Hichilema has traditionally taken a more business-friendly stance than Lungu, whoever wins the election is likely to seek to attract more investment in the mining industry and improve the power supply, London-based risk advisers PGI Intelligence said by email.

The South East Asia correspondent for the British broadcaster said on Twitter one woman was killed and 11 people were injured in the explosions, including foreigners.

Pitched battles were reported late Wednesday in Nawa district, just a few kilometres south of Lashkar Gah city, compounding fears that the provincial capital could fall despite stepped up USA air strikes to beat back the insurgents. Atal said that if the government does not show...

After consistent food crisis and lack of financial resources, the Indian workers approached the embassy for assistance in returning back to India.

Wrexham rower Vicky Thornley said she was “lost for words” after scooping a silver medal in the women’s double sculls at the Rio Olympics this afternoon.

Now, the Labour masses are revolting and attempts to stop numerous new arrivals from voting in the latest leadership contest have failed after a High Court judge ruled that five Labour members who had claimed they had been disenfranchised in the leadership contest had...

More than 1,700 fire fighters were at 12.30pm on Wednesday battling 13 major forest fires in mainland Portugal, while in Funchal, on the island of Madeira, local teams and reinforcements sent from Lisbon continued to try to put out various blazes.