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

"Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms ... almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B," Alibaba's cloud unit said

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.

The email gives federal employees until Feb. 6 to decide whether to take part

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.

More than 300,000 Palestinians have crossed from southern Gaza into the north, the Hamas-run Gaza media authority said in a statement early yesterday, as the United Nations warned that “needs on the ground remain immense”.

The banks and delta of the Mono River in Benin are home to mangrove swamps which harbour fish and rare wild birds -- and some are deemed sacred.

Militants in an explosive-laden vehicle were thwarted in their attempt to overrun a Pakistani security post near the border with Afghanistan, the army said yesterday.

US President Donald Trump has said India “will do what’s right” when it comes to taking back Indian immigrants who came to the US illegally, following a phone call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic resigned yesterday, becoming the highest-ranking official to step down amid a wave of anti-corruption protests that have spread across the country.

The memo referenced the executive orders, including those seeking to dismantle programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)