China&s government on Tuesday warned that it would take &forceful measures& if U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, after the Financial Times said she would go to the Chinese-claimed island next month.

Pelosi and her delegation will also visit Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore, and spend time...

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No one was injured when a transformer at Hoover Dam briefly caught fire Tuesday morning, officials said.

&There are no injuries to visitors or employees. There is no risk to the power grid and power is still being generated from the powerhouse,& Jacklynn L. Gould, the Bureau of Reclamation&s regional director for the Lower...

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The world&s largest and most powerful space telescope by NASA, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has suffered massive damage from a micrometeoroid strike in late May, Forbes magazine reported on Monday.

In a new paper published in the wake of Webb&s incredible first images last week, a group of scientists outlined the performance of...

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At least 20 people were injured and 600 houses were damaged in Monday&s 5.1-magnitude earthquake in Khost&s Spera and Paktika&s Giyan districts, the Ministry of State for Disaster Management said on Tuesday.

Mohammad Nasim Haqqani, the ministry&s spokesman, said that fortunately there were no deaths caused by the earthquake.

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Pakistani and Chinese officials on Monday discussed the possibility of Afghanistan joining the multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) infrastructure project.

The idea to extend CPEC, the central part of the Belt and Road Initiative, was discussed during a meeting between China&s special envoy on Afghanistan Yue Xiayong...

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Pakistan delegation discussed Tuesday with the finance officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) regarding bilateral trade issues at Serena Hotel in Kabul.

This delegation arrived in Kabul on Monday evening and had an introductory meeting with the officials of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, but the trade issues between the two...

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