The president of Vanuatu said on Sunday that he feared the impact from a devastating tropical storm will be "the very, very, very worst" in isolated outer islands, but damage was still being assessed.
The Obama administration is abandoning plans to cut the number of US forces in Afghanistan to 5,500 by year's end, bowing to military leaders who want to keep more troops in the country, US officials said.
At least 49 people were killed on Saturday when a tour bus plunged 400 meters into a densely wooded ravine in Campo Alegra, in the state of Catarina, southern Brazil, authorities said.
China is cutting the number of industries in which it restricts foreign investment, in a move to further open up the market.
More than half of the high-interest local government debt that falls due this year will be covered under a debt swap plan arranged by the Ministry of Finance, which said on Friday that the swap would not raise the debt level further.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission is scrapping approvals for new exchange-product listings, signaling accelerating efforts to cut administrative red tape before planned reforms of initial public offerings.
Twenty-one international aid groups sharply criticized the United Nations Security Council in a report on Thursday, saying it had failed to implement three resolutions passed last year seeking to boost humanitarian assistance to Syrian civilians caught up in the country's civil war.
During the four years that researcher Xi Li has watched Syria's civil war unfold through nighttime satellite imagery, he has seen the pinpricks of light fade to the point where 83 percent of the country's lights have gone out.
Guardians of the French language have dropped their famously fierce blockade against invading English words and are now welcoming them for enriching - rather than threatening - the lexicon.
The new-energy vehicle industry is a new landmark on Chengdu's industrial landscape as the capital city of Sichuan province stresses a range of advanced industries to fuel a new round of economic development.
Two officers were shot during a protest in front of the Ferguson Police Department early on Thursday, authorities said, as demonstrators gathered following the resignation of the embattled police chief of the St. Louis suburb.
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