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Click to expand Image The Fifth Committee of the 77th General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, October 3, 2022.  © 2022 Xie E/Xinhua via Getty Images Countries hostile toward United Nations human rights bodies have in...

Yee moved to Dharamsala in 2009 and for a year followed the lives of exiled Tibetans there. But when they started to move elsewhere, she continued to stay in touch, learning about their lives abroad.

The death toll from a powerful earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale that jolted China's Gansu and Qinghai provinces increased to 131 on Wednesday, while the number of injured persons stood at 980, authorities said.

A strong overnight earthquake rattled a mountainous region of northwestern China, leaving residents out in a below-freezing winter night and killing 127 people.

A powerful magnitude 6.2 earthquake hit remote China's Gansu province, killing 118 people.

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Officials say at least 118 killed and more than 400 injured after 6.2-magnitude quake in north-west Gansu and Qinghai provincesCold weather is hampering rescue efforts after an earthquake in China’s north-west Gansu and Qinghai provinces that killed at least...

Rescuers are fighting the bitter cold in what they say is a 72-hour "golden window" to find survivors.

Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. BJP stalwarts, former deputy prime minister LK Advani and Union minister Murli Manohar Joshi, won't attend the grand consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya next month, the temple trust...

Chinese President Xi Jinping asks authorities on Tuesday morning to ‘make every effort’ to treat the injured, repair infrastructure and resettle affected residents.

The state news agency Xinhua said the quake had a magnitude of 6.2. It reportedly damaged water, electricity, transport, communications and other infrastructure in the mountainous region.

The shallow 6.2 magnitude quake struck near the border of Gansu and Qinghai, sending people rushing onto the streets.

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Beijing/ At least 111 people were killed when a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck an ethnic county in northwest China's Gansu and neighbouring Qinghai province on midnight Monday, the local earthquake relief...

State media said 100 people died in the province of Gansu and another 11 in the neighboring province of Qinghai in the quake, which occurred just before midnight on Monday.

Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. BJP veterans L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi who were at the forefront of the agitation for the Ram temple in Ayodhya are unlikely to attend next month's consecration...