Hundreds of people were laid off today by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as t

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Beijing — Chinese leader Xi Jinping hailed former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as an "old

New Delhi — Scientists with India's space program erupted with joy on Friday as a massive rocket lif

A gunman killed two people at a downtown construction site in New Zealand's largest city of Auckland

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