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Fears that new legislation will grant citizenship to large numbers of immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh have sparked violent protests
Question of who ordered the slaying of Pavel Sheremet, who died in a car bomb blast in 2016, remains
Alex Chow, 22, died last month from head injuries sustained during a fall inside a multi-storey carpark where police and protesters were clashing
Choice of him for Nobel literature prize offended many in the Balkans who see him as an apologist for Serb war crimes during the conflicts that fractured the former Yugoslavia
After a decade in power, Khama, 66, dramatically resigned from the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in May which has held power since 1966
The 31-year-old rapper will have to be on good behavior during his stay in Sweden to avoid seeing his suspended sentence change to a spell behind bars
Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson told CNBC the process for approving the MAX's return to the skies still has 10 or 11 milestones left to complete, including a certification flight and a public comment period
Guineans took to the streets en masse, in the latest round of mass anti-government protests to hit the fragile West African state
Tuesday’s move freezes any assets Min Aung Hlaing might have in the US, and criminalizes financial transactions with him by anyone in the United States
The special provisions for the 23-year-old's brother and sister came as public anger grows about perceived police inaction in preventing and pursuing sexual assault cases across the country
‘Marriage Story’ earned nominations for its stars Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, and for its screenplay, but director Noah Baumbach missed out
Visit to US capital by Sergey Lavrov Tuesday will be the Russian's first since a controversial 2017 meeting with President Donald Trump
Smith told the crowd that his Oscar-nominated role in 'The Pursuit of Happyness' — a 2007 biopic of a salesman forced to live on the streets of San Francisco with his young son — was a 'life-changing experience' that had allowed him to understand the misery of poverty
Orjuan Essam, 19, and Rayan Rajab, 22, of Khartoum-based Tahadi women's club, have scored several goals already in a tournament that would have seemed unlikely when autocrat Omar al-Bashir was in power
The developments marked a worrying turn for the anti-government protests rocking Iraq since October, the country's largest and deadliest grassroots movement in decades
The 30-minute talk was the first conversation between the US President and the South Korean leader since they met at the UN General Assembly in New York in September
A New South Wales fire official said firefighters can do little more than help residents flee
Tesla co-founder Elon Musk says the insult wasn’t meant to suggest pedophilia
Huge sums were stolen from sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad, allegedly by the ex-prime minister and his cronies, and spent on everything from high-end real estate to artwork
Women allege they were sexually abused, tortured and even sold as sex slaves
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