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Originating in India, doctors and monks were said to have brought these methods 2,500 years ago to Thailand, passing its secrets from master to disciple in temples and later within families.

The embassy staff member claimed that she was abducted and detained on November 25 by a group which forced her to hand over sensitive information - reportedly including the names of Sri Lankans who had sought asylum in Switzerland.

Shohrat Zakir, Xinjiang's Uighur governor, said that all those in the centers who were studying Mandarin Chinese, law, vocational skills and deradicalization have 'graduated' and found stable employment.

The global campaign #UnitedAgainstCorruption focuses on corruption as one of the biggest obstacles to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), said the United Nations on their website.

In his message on the 35th SAARC Charter Day, Imran Khan said December 8 marks the day when leaders with vision and foresight adopted the SAARC Charter and pledged to work together for the progress and prosperity of South Asia.

Malaysia was declared polio-free in 2000, after reporting its last known case of the disease in 1992. Checks in the area where the baby lived showed 23 of 199 children between 2 and 15 had not received the polio vaccine.

Sandeep and Reena Mander were forced to adopt from overseas after the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council rejected their application to join a list of approved adopters because of their Indian roots.

Officials of the Federal Investigative Agency have 'immense pressure' from the government to shut down the probe in the matter that most affects Christians — one of the poorest communities in Pakistan.

The unanimous verdict by a jury of five women and three men was returned after roughly 45 minutes of deliberation on the fourth day of Elon Musk's trial.

Naval Air Station Pensacola was put on lockdown, with the US Navy reporting that two victims had been killed. The number of people injured is still unknown.

Many communities in Nepal view menstruating women as impure and in some remote areas, they are forced to sleep in a hut away from the home, following a centuries-old tradition known as 'chhaupadi'.

Rear Admiral Robert Chadwick, the commander of Navy Region Hawaii, said the service would evaluate whether security should be upgraded before the annual ceremony to mark the 78th anniversary of the Japanese bombing that launched the US into World War II.

The migrants 'were mostly clandestine immigrants trying to reach Spain, coming from Banjul in Gambia,' Mauritania's interior ministry said in a statement released Wednesday night.

Kamala Harris’ Senate term extends until 2023. But having rolled back her presidential bid, she’s now free to be tapped for vice president.

While it may have seemed sudden, Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s decision to exit the Google cockpit was the culmination of a years-long separation between two of Silicon Valley’s most prominent founders and the company they began 21 years ago.

Joe Biden, with whom Kamala Harris clashed during a Democratic debate earlier this year, praised her after a campaign event in Ames, Iowa.