Pakistan has deployed troops and blocked key roads, making it difficult for ambulances to pass through.

The main event of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will be held Wednesday .

The group was founded in 2001 by China and Russia to counter Western alliances.

Militants in recent weeks have killed dozens of people in multiple attacks in restive northwestern and southwestern Pakistan .

The Army was aware of Robert Card's mental health decline that left him paranoid, delusional and expressing homicidal ideations, lawyers say.

Eighteen people were killed when the 40-year-old reservist opened fire at two locations he'd frequented.

Card was found dead two days later from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA) aims to ensure equitable utilization and sustainable management of the world's longest river.

Seven countries including Ethiopia , Rwanda , South Sudan , Uganda , Tanzania , and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have endorsed the CFA .

Cairo and Khartoum have rejected it.

Tokyo 's Nikkei 225 index gained 1.3% to 40,125.60 , while the Kospi in Seoul gained 0.2% to 2,627.92 .

U.S. futures edged higher while oil prices shed more than $2 a barrel.

Chinese shares extended losses after the government reported late Monday that growth in exports fell sharply in September , adding to signs of weakness in the economy.

About 165 million Americans get their health insurance through work.

Most don't spend much time considering what their employer is offering in the way of benefits and what it will cost.

U.S. employers project their health-care costs will increase by 7.7% in 2025 .

Some of the higher costs will inevitably get passed on to employees.

Employer-issued life insurance policies typically amount to a year 's salary.

You can buy additional life insurance through your employer.

Nearly 1 in 5 employees cite deteriorating mental health, according to a recent report by Gallagher .

Some wellness initiatives may include financial coaching, stress management classes and discounts.

Thousands of South Korean adoptees are looking to satisfy a raw, compelling urge that much of the world takes for granted: the search for identity.

Less than a fifth of 15,000 adoptee who have asked the government for help with family searches since 2012 have managed to reunite with relatives.

Adoptees in recent years have attempted to reconnect with birth families through DNA.

Seoul -based nonprofit Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link assists adoptees with birth family searches as well as language education, social events and obtaining visas for employment in South Korea .

KoRoot , another nonprofit, also helps adopteees searching for their families and backgrounds.

More than half of California hospitals have at least one building that wouldn't be able to operate after a major earthquake hit their region.

Many institutions claim they don't have the money to meet a 2030 legal deadline for earthquake retrofits.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that allows small, rural, or “distressed” hospitals to get an extension of up to three years .

Alameda Hospital in Alameda , California , is facing an unfunded 2030 deadline for seismic retrofit.

The island's hospital is close to San Francisco and Oakland , but the tunnels, bridges, and ferries that connect it to the mainland could easily be shut in an emergency.

More than 800 veterans who were kicked out of the military for their sexual orientation will receive honorable discharges.

The news comes a little more than a year after reviewing the records of LGBTQ+ veterans who might be eligible for an honorable discharge.

An honorable discharge status unlocks access to benefits that veterans may have been missing out on for decades .

37 countries have cut the probability of their citizens dying before they reach age 70 in half since 1970 .

A new report argues that this goal isn't out of reach for any country that chooses to cut its premature mortality.

The goal, which the commission calls " 50 by 50 ," is achievable, argues the report.

Countries should prioritize the 15 health conditions that cause most premature deaths.

Ethel Kennedy , wife of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy , died Thursday at age 96 .

She raised their 11 children after her husband was assassinated and remained dedicated to social causes.

Monday 's funeral, which was closed to the public, took place at Our Lady of Victory , in Centerville .