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Dr Rana Safdar, a senior official at the National Institute of Health (NIH), said the figure is a huge leap from the previous record of 27,000 infections in 2011.

Sharif, 69, was admitted to the Services Hospital on October 22 from Pakistan's anti-graft body's custody after his platelets dropped to a critical low level of 2,000.

Separately, at least one protester was killed and 34 others wounded when security forces opened fire on protesters camped out at the entrance to the main Gulf port of Umm Qasr.

Guterres, speaking to reporters in Bangkok where he is attending the ASEAN Summit, said the biggest threat to sustainability today in the world is climate change.

The migrants, most of them Afghans, were not injured, one of the officials said, adding that the refrigeration system had not been turned on.

The incident was the latest sign of anti-Iranian anger that has emerged during the biggest wave of demonstrations in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

The crude is not coming from the usual producers, but from Brazil, Canada, Norway and Guyana. It may be why Saudi Arabia’s Aramco pushed ahead with plans for the world’s largest IPO.

Closure of the visa section will come as a huge blow for many Afghans, hundreds of whom apply daily for permits to travel to Pakistan where they seek medical treatment, goods and university educations.

Carter is the oldest U.S. ex-President ever and has been teaching Bible lessons since he was in his teens. He missed one Sunday school class after the pelvis fracture.

The bus skidded off the road in Sindhupalchowk district, northwest of the capital Kathmandu, and plunged 50 metres down into the Sunkosi River.

Tehran has hit back three times with countermeasures since May in response to Washington's withdrawal from the nuclear deal by suspending parts of its compliance with the agreement's terms.

Susannah Cahalan’s condition is what in medicine is called a 'great pretender': a disorder that mimics the symptoms of various disorders, confounding doctors and leading them astray.

Al-Mamun entered Brazil six years ago as a refugee. He and his group were smuggling into Brazil, and then to the United States, people from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan.

Outgoing, charming and an expert networker, at 29 Anthony Cailan was already a celebrity in the small world of high-end wine. He had worked at influential Los Angeles restaurants like Bestia, Animal and Eggslut.

President Donald Trump is skipping the flurry of meetings in a Bangkok suburb this weekend in a palpable absence that could be viewed in the region as a snub.

Enquiries to trace and arrest Shakur were undertaken in Bangladesh and India after information suggested that he was in Assam, close to the border of Bangladesh.