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Guyana will ban imports of vaping products, tightening restrictions on electronic cigarettes as concern rises about their growing use and health risks, President Irfaan Ali said Saturday.

Saudi-led coalition says helicopter crash in Najran kills two crew members Reuters

China’s railway network carried 3.71 billion passenger trips in the first three quarters, up 4.8% from a year earlier and marking a record for the period, China State Railway Group Co. said on Sunday.

China is investigating Huang Ribuo, former vice chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, for suspected “serious violations” of official duties, according to the nation’s anti-graft agency.

The continent’s urban centres are set to expand by 19mn people annually, or by nearly two Londons a year. But urbanisation is not following a familiar path

Poll of 94 economists points to benefits reaching far beyond the US and China

Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs links travellers to escalating hybrid threats from Moscow

New method of deception appears co-ordinated, suggesting Moscow is tightening its control over the tankers

The high-profile cabinet secretary is pushing for radical reform amid growing pressure to shrink the civil service

A vast bet on the future of the technology is running into the unforgiving economics of the physical world