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Governor Greg Abbott held a news conference on Texas' continued response to severe flooding impacting Central Texas.

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S Jaishankar met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday in Tianjin, ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) ...

After John Uwagboe moved to Scotland in 2008 he did not see another black man for several weeks. When at last he did, on the ...