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Zambian Opposition Rails Against Emergency Powers
Zambia's main opposition party on Monday accused President Edgar Lungu of endangering the country's democracy and...
Iraqi Forces Push To Clear Last Pockets of IS In Mosul
Iraqi forces fought to eliminate the last pockets of Islamic State group resistance in Mosul on Monday after the...
Martial Arts Expert Sworn In As Mongolian President
Mongolian businessman and martial arts expert Khaltmaa Battulga was sworn in as president Monday, vowing to revive the...
Apple To Invest $900mn In Danish Data Plant
Apple on Monday said it would invest nine billion Danish kroner ($920 million, 810 million euros) in a data centre in...
Afghanistan Enacts Law To Control Cyberspace
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has signed into law a cybercrime bill targeting online crime and militancy by...
Israel Minister In Rare West Bank Visit For Electricity Deal
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz made a rare appearance by a high-ranking Israeli official in the occupied West Bank on...
Trump Son ‘met Kremlin-Linked Lawyer’ During Election Campaign
US President Donald Trump said Sunday he wanted to work "constructively" with Russia despite confronting Vladimir Putin...
Oil, Gas Key To World Energy For ‘decades To Come’
Oil and gas will remain central to the world's supply of energy for decades to come, despite a surge of interest in...
Sri Lanka Monks Vow To Resist Deal With Tamil Minority
Sri Lanka's hardline monks on Monday broadened a growing campaign by the Buddhist clergy against the government,...
Toxic Alcohol Kills 12 In India
A dozen people have died after drinking toxic homemade alcohol in Uttar Pradesh state, police said Monday, the latest...
Iraqi Forces Fight To Clear Last Jihadists From Mosul
Iraqi forces engaged in "heavy" fighting with the Islamic State group on Monday as they battled to clear the last...
Bomb Kills Police Chief, Guard In Southwest Pakistan
A bomb Monday killed a police chief and his guard, and wounded 11 others in a southwestern Pakistani town bordering...
China’s Ailing Nobel Laureate In ‘critical Condition’
China's cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo is in a critical condition, the hospital treating him said Monday,...
Wildfires Rage In Sweltering California Forcing Thousands To Flee
Wildfires roared Sunday across much of California, forcing thousands to evacuate homes as the most populous US state...
Malaysia Foils Bid To Smuggle ‘bearded Dragons’
Malaysia has foiled an attempt to smuggle dozens of bearded dragon lizards and tortoises into the country from...
Syrians Displaced To the Coast Trickle Back To Aleppo
For years as fighting raged in Syria's Aleppo, property agent Saer Daqaq had fleeing residents knocking at the door of...
S. Korea To Build ‘comfort Women’ Museum In Seoul
South Korea intends to build a museum in memory of wartime sex slaves for Japanese troops, a government minister said...
Militants Force Kids, Hostages To Fight
Children and hostages are being forced to fight alongside pro-Islamic State gunmen waging a seven-week battle for a...
Saudi Police, Civilians Wounded In Shootings
A policeman and two civilians have been wounded in shootings in a Shiite-majority province in Saudi Arabia, police said...