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More than a dozen Dallas Fire-Rescue units were searching for two people who reportedly went underwater in the Trinity River on Sunday afternoon and never resurfaced. About 3:30 p.m., first responders received a 911 call that two people went into the water and didn’t come up in the Elm Fork of the river, department spokesperson Jason Evans said. Dallas Fire-Rescue …

Dallas’ latest plan to address its affordable housing crisis is slated to go to the City Council in April, according to the city’s top housing official. But he says it’ll take years and hundreds of millions of dollars from the city alone to make a dent. “I don’t like to put too much on any plan, particularly for a city …

ISLAMABAD: Though relations between the two countries had gone through a historic change since the inception of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), bloc politics may impact steadiness in the flow of relations between Pakistan and China. CPEC which is the flagship project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to alleviate the socio-economic woes of Pakistan. This was highlighted by …

A former Dallas IT employee is now suspected of accidentally deleting large amounts of city files on three separate occasions, according to the city’s chief information officer. An internal review of Dallas’ entire data archive since 2018 found that the worker at some point deleted 13 terabytes of Dallas police files and 2 terabytes of city secretary office materials in addition to …

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti’s communications secretary said Wednesday evening that police have arrested the “presumed assassins” of President Jovenel Moise. Frantz Exantus did not provide further details about Wednesday’s slaying of Moise and the wounding of his wife, or say how many suspects had been arrested. A squad of gunmen assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise and wounded his wife in …

The United Arab Emirates has warned it could impose restrictions on people who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 as the region’s business and tourism hub pushes its immunisation campaign. The country of some nine million, which has widened the campaign to those aged 16 and above, has vaccinated about 65 per cent of the eligible population, the National Emergency …

The US government is considering giving some people half the dose of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine in order to speed vaccinations, a federal official said on Sunday. Moncef Slaoui, head of Operation Warp Speed, the federal vaccine programme, said on CBS‘ “Face the Nation” that officials were in talks with Moderna and the Food and Drug Administration about the idea. Moderna’s vaccine …

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins says people should consider taking their loved ones out of nursing homes after several cases of the coronavirus were confirmed in Dallas assisted-living facilities. The suggestion came after the county announced its 10th death from the virus Sunday. The latest victim was a woman in her 80s who was a resident at Edgemere, a senior-living …