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Correspondent in Basra province sees protesters block access routes to ports of Khor al-Zubair and Umm Qasr, as well as Rumailah oil field
Newly elected Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday named his brother Mahinda as Prime Minister, cementing the grip on power of a clan credited with crushing the Tamil Tigers a decade ago
The record was previously set by Taro Katsura, a revered politician who served three times between 1901 and 1913
The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement that Iran's heavy water production plant was in operation and that its stock of heavy water reserves was 131.5 tons, above the 130-ton limit
Battle over Chinese telecom giant has also landed squarely in the middle of US President Trump's trade battle with Beijing
Siblings Ismet and Rifat Tekin received a framed letter transferring the ownership of the Kiez-Doener to them in a ceremony on Saturday as the restaurant reopened for the first time since the October 9 attack
One soldier was killed in the operations, which come less than a month after 37 people were killed in an ambush on a convoy transporting employees of a Canadian mining company
The clashes Friday outside Cochabamba bring the toll since the election to 15 dead, more than 400 wounded
State Department's facility in southern Virginia is the largest of its kind
The EU has grown increasingly concerned at the decline in media freedom in Turkey since the attempted coup, which was followed by a major crackdown on journalists
Bank fears that the combination of social unrest and a lack of cash flow at the end of the year would see the currency fall even further
'The air quality index for the city of Tehran still has not passed the unhealthy status for sensitive groups,' an official was quoted as saying
Some 25 people, many members of ruling Awami League party, were charged with murder over the brutal killing last month of a university student who criticized the government on social media
There was no immediate comment from the candidates about the delay
The protesters fear that Zouheir Makhlouf, who walked free after being investigated for alleged sexual harassment and public indecency, will enjoy immunity from prosecution over any future allegations levelled against him by women
A police helicopter was also being used along the 125-kilometre stretch between Cap Ferret and Soulac-sur-Mer, which includes the Lacanau beach
Defendants face up to three years in prison if convicted of ‘unlawful assembly and protest’ and ‘refusing to disperse’ in a trial deemed ‘farcical’ by rights groups
All six had denied the charges, and rights groups denounced their case as politically motivated against Crimean Tatars
The knife-wielding assailant was arrested after state television footage showed him storming a musical performance in Riyadh's King Abdullah Park by what appeared to be a foreign theatre troupe
The semi-autonomous Chinese city has been upended by 24 consecutive weeks of huge and increasingly violent rallies
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