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Thalidomide survivors living in Scotland will receive lifelong financial support, the Scottish government has announced.

Health Secretary Humza… Read more

The Gambia has banned timber exports and revoked all export licenses to try to combat illegal logging.

The ban has come into effect immediately,… Read more

The Supreme Court’s latest climate change ruling could dampen efforts by federal agencies to rein in the tech industry, which went largely unregulated… Read more

TOKYO -- Many users of Japan’s No. 2 mobile carrier KDDI Corp. were still having trouble making calls Monday after a massive outage… Read more

OTTAWA: Miners in the Klondike gold fields of Canada's far north have made a rare discovery, digging up the mummified remains of a near-complete… Read more

TEHRAN, Iran -- Five people were killed and 44 others injured in a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Iran on Saturday, state television reported.

Among the world’s present-day religions, Zoroastrianism, founded more than 3,000 years ago, is one of the most ancient and historically influential.… Read more

 At a tourism conference in Phuket last month, Thailand’s prime minister looked out at attendees and posed a question with a predictable… Read more