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Sissi's remarks come after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed readiness to send troops to Libya if requested by the country's Government of National Accord (GNA)
Abul Asad, editor of the Daily Sangram, was taken into custody Friday after a publishing an article describing an executed opposition leader as a 'martyr'
Survivors, including 10 women and a baby, were in a 'very poor state' and taken for medical treatment in northern Morocco
The boat seizure came just days after Myanmar's leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi addressed the UN's top court to deny allegations of a genocidal campaign against the ethnic minority
The commissioning of the warship, named the 'Shandong', puts China in a small club of nations with multiple aircraft carriers, and the country is reportedly building a third
Maria Ressa's news site has written extensively and often critically on President Rodrigo Duterte's policies
Backed by 100 British personnel, France has a 4,500-strong Sahel force supporting national armies struggling with a seven-year-old jihadist revolt
Iraq's competing factions typically engage in drawn-out discussions before any official decision, but replacing outgoing premier Adel Abdel Mahdi has been further complicated by the scrutiny of the months-old protest movement that forced his resignation
A UN tribunal will hear arguments in the case pf former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide and war crimes committed in Bosnia's 1990s civil war
The announcement came as Johnson begins a new week with a fresh mandate to fulfill his promise to push through his election promise to 'Get Brexit Done' on January 31
The latest incident followed the death of at least 17 people when an illegal plastic factory outside Dhaka went up in flames on Thursday
Around 460 people have been killed and 25,000 wounded, most of them protesters, since the youth-led rallies erupted on October 1
Soldiers were killed last week in jihadist attack; leaders call for closer cooperation and international support in the battle against the Islamist threat
Threat comes after Washington warns of sanctions over Ankara buying Russian arms
The gold panners were working at Ndiyo mine around 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Watsa, the main town in the Watsa territory of Upper-Uele province
The United States secretly expelled two Chinese embassy officials in September after they drove onto a sensitive military base in Virginia, The New York Times reports
But the veteran socialist defended his far-left platform and blamed the media for helping relegate his century-old party to its worst performance since before World War II
Forty years after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan – and three decades since the conflict ended – the war's legacy continues to claim lives across the country
The painful procedure has become increasingly controversial in Europe and has been banned in Sweden, Norway and Switzerland
The three males and two females aged 15 to 18 were arrested on Friday on suspicion of murder, rioting and wounding and had been detained pending further investigation, police said in a statement
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