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The government said Wednesday it aims to curb fine dust emissions in light of worsening air pollution. The coal plants have been blamed for much of the smog in the country.

New orders slumped in May, highlighting renewed weakness in the economy and adding pressure on the government and central bank, a survey showed Wednesday.

Pictures of the J-20 circulated in the Chinese media earlier suggested the warplane had already joined the active fleet.

His country crumbling, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro hails his “revolutionary friend” from Vermont.

With the Organization of American States chief calling Venezuela’s president a “dictator,” the group will discuss the country’s membership at an emergency meeting Wednesday.

President-elect Rodrigo Duterte says his dealings with China over sea disputes “will not be dependent on America.”

Erdoğan threatens repercussions if parliament recognizes the 1915 slaughter denied by his government. The EU migration deal could be at risk.

Iraqi forces, with help from a U.S.-led coalition, this year are expected to push to retake Mosul, the Islamic State group’s de facto Iraqi capital.

The biannual meeting in Vienna on Thursday arrives just weeks after Saudi officials scuttled a plan between OPEC and non-OPEC producers to freeze oil production and shore up prices.

Seven of the queen’s eight grandchildren are included in the equation.

Some Dutch institutions have shifted excursions out of capital cities after ISIS targeted Paris and Brussels.

The French government has announced pay increases for schoolteachers and has pledged to speed up reorganization talks at the nation’s railways.

EU sanctions were put in place on Russia following the annexation of Crimea in March 2014.

After being released in a prisoner exchange, Nadiya Savchenko has assumed her role in Parliament and has taken aim at fellow lawmakers.

Data from the emergency beacons could help investigators locate debris from the doomed EgyptAir flight, including its crucial black boxes.

Polls show many British citizens are also still on the fence over whether the United Kingdom should leave the European Union.

The navy fired shots into the stern of a fishing boat Monday, but no one was hurt, according to an Indonesian naval spokesman.

A $10 million ransom has been demanded by the group holding Japanese freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda in Syria.

Merve Buyuksarac was given a suspended sentence Tuesday for a 2014 post on Instagram that insulted the then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

"Europe, Germany in particular, cannot become an Arab country, Germany is Germany," the Tibetan Buddhist leader said.

Comments focusing on an increased U.S. military presence in the South China Sea were published in the state-run China Daily.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the announcement Tuesday. Trade between the two countries had fallen by 27.8 percent.

A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by over 30 men in Rio de Janeiro last week, and a recording of the incident was uploaded to social media.

Transfusions of infected blood were the cause of over 2,000 new cases of HIV infection since the beginning of 2015 in the world’s second-most populous country.

The planet, which is about 40 percent larger than Earth, may have the conditions needed for supporting life as we know it to have evolved.

The British singer was performing in Moscow, where he voiced concerns about AIDS and gay rights in Russia.

The Global Slavery Index 2016, released Tuesday, found that India topped the list with the highest number of people in modern slavery.

The famed British cosmologist called him a “demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator.”

Toshiba Corp.’s Westinghouse Electric will relocate a planned project to build six nuclear reactors in India, officials told Reuters.