The United States wants a UN Security Council sanctions committee to immediately halt exports of refined petroleum products to North Korea. But Russia and China are putting the request on hold.
The death toll has risen to six after a gas pipe exploded at a steel factory in the city of Nanchang, capital of eastern China's Jiangxi Province, local authorities said Wednesday.
A wildfire in the U.S. state of Arizona has spread to 37, 765 acres (152.8 square km) in 10 days with only 6-percent containment so far, authorities said Monday.
More than 15,000 cancer-affected patients out of total 20,000 Afghans affected with the disease lost their lives in 2018, said a statement of Afghanistan Public Health Ministry released here.
