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US troops are running three mobile testing labs and plan to set up four more in efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, a senior US military officer said Tuesday.
The UN Security Council on Tuesday condemned "in the strongest terms" a deadly attack against peacekeepers in Mali and urged Malian authorities to bring the attackers to justice.
Canadian legislators on Tuesday approved government plans to send fighter jets to Iraq, where they will take part in US-led air strikes against Islamic State militants for up to six months.
A Chinese envoy to the UN on Tuesday called on the international community to adhere to the UN charter and solve problems through peaceful means in addressing security threats.
A Canadian National Railway Company freight train carrying flammable goods derailed in central Saskatchewan on Tuesday and caught fire.
Despite the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) downward revision of its growth rate forecast for China, a panel of economic experts still believes the world's second-largest economy is ripe for trade with the US.
A 30-year-old mother in the US state of Delaware has been charged with child endangerment and drug possession after her toddler daughter took packets of heroin to her day care center, Delaware State Police said Tuesday.
When Jim Crowder saw a news headline on his cellphone on Monday morning that a Supreme Court decision had made gay marriage legal again in Indiana, he immediately called his partner of 31 years.
The rising student loan debt in the United States are placing burdens on more and more college students and graduates, who may have to struggle for years before paying off their debts.
Researchers unveil what they call the biggest such study to date, identifying 700 genetic variants and more than 400 genome regions relating to height.
The first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the United States has apparently not received any of the experimental treatments for the disease, a top US health official said on Sunday.
Three top former government leaders who devised the 2008 financial bailouts - Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernanke - are set to testify this week in a lawsuit over the government's rescue of the insurance giant AIG.