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A Myanmar court on Wednesday sentenced a veteran Australian media publisher to 13 years in jail after a police raid uncovered a stash of drugs at his home last year
African Growth and Opportunity Act, which in 2015 was extended to 2025, provides tariff-free access on 6,500 products to 39 countries
Israel has advanced plans for more than 2,300 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the latest in a surge of such approvals since US President Donald Trump took office, an NGO said Tuesday
The American creator of the 8chan website linked to deadly US mass shootings says he hoped the El Paso carnage would be the 'final nail in the coffin' for the forum, which he accused of harboring 'domestic terrorists'
Photos and videos posted on social networks tagged 'Siberia is burning' show towns and cities enveloped in smoke, with complaints of government inaction
Manila banned the sale, import and distribution of the Dengvaxia vaccine in February following the deaths of several dozen children who were among more than 700,000 people given shots in 2016 and 2017
Magellan was the first to discover the strait, which now bears his name, linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at the tip of South America.
The talks, now in their eighth round, began on Saturday but it was unclear if they would extend into a third day
Hundreds detained Saturday in latest rally protesting the exclusion of opposition candidates from local Moscow polls next month, with Paris citing ‘excessive use of force’
Deal aimed at paving the way for a transition to civilian rule following the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir in April
A condition of the truce is a weapon-free buffer zone between the two sides
The man, a permanent resident of Canada, had been convicted of designing a pornographic website and sentenced to life
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is based in Britain and relies on a network of sources on the ground, said it was unclear what had caused the deadly explosion at the Shayrat airbase in Homs province
Russian spies have been blamed for the 2018 poisoning of former double-agent Sergei Skripal in the United Kingdom
Ancient town of Hasankeyf in the southeastern Batman province, home to 3,000 residents, will disappear as the lake is filled for the Ilisu project
The senate this week approved the list of 43 ministers after the former military ruler finally settled on their names some two months after his inauguration in May
Indonesian authorities urged people living near the coast to move to higher ground
Most of Idlib province and parts of Hama, Aleppo and Latakia are controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a jihadist group led by Syria's former al-Qaida affiliate
Tape of the October 1971 phone call was unearthed by the former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and were subsequently published online on Wednesday
The Chinese firm boosted its sales even as the overall market declined, remaining on the heels of sector leader Samsung and ahead of U.S.-based Apple
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