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Business groups welcome it for helping avoid US punitive measures; rights groups call it 'cruel and illegal'
President rails at Rep. Elijah Cummings' criticism of his administration's Mexican border policies; Maryland Democrat says 'it is my moral duty to fight for my constituents'
The raid took place on the night of Thursday to Friday with 'around 20 individuals attacking the village of Diblou,' said a security source who put the death toll at 14
In a speech in Manchester where he pledged new investment in Leave-voting areas, Johnson promised to step up negotiations on post-Brexit trade deals and set up free ports to boost the economy
Arrest follow a recent alleged coup attempt
A half dozen graffiti villages in Taiwan have been festooned with artwork in a bid to inject some life into rural places that have been emptied of their young
Executions part of 3,039 human rights violations and abuses documented throughout the country by the world body’s joint office for Human Rights
Online fight for public opinion has become as crucial a battleground as the city streets in the Chinese territory divided over a controversial extradition bill
The $1.2 billion in one-time costs are connected to restructuring in Europe and Latin America that have cost thousands of jobs and closed plants
Keiko Fujimori is accused of accepting $1.2 million in illicit party funding from Odebrecht for her 2011 presidential campaign
Workers will be able to withdraw money from a severance fund and some money will be released from the social security fund
Robert Ballard plans to leave from Samoa on Aug. 7 to carry out the hunt with his state-of-the-art research vessel
In 1982, Hauer appeared as Batty, model number N6MAA10816, the leader of the renegade Nexus-6 replicants in 'Blade Runner' which made him one of Hollywood's film icons
At a closed-door meeting of WTO's General Council, South Korea had earlier spoken out against Japan's decision to restrict exports of chemicals vital to Seoul's world-leading chip and smartphone industry
Among the names circulating to succeed Amano are Romania's Cornel Feruta, one of his closest collaborators and currently the agency's chief coordinator; and Rafael Grossi, Argentina's ambassador to the IAEA
Ramush Haradinaj left Tuesday for the Hague to be interrogated by a war crimes court as a suspect, public RTK television said
Border openings were just one breakthrough in the whip-fast rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea that began just over a year ago, but now they are closing again, one by one
The 28-year-old underwent emergency brain surgery in Washington after his super-lightweight bout with Puerto Rican Subriel Matias on Friday was stopped in the 11th round
Li gained notoriety worldwide as one of the key architects of the brutal breakup of mass pro-democracy demonstrations on June 4, 1989, and stayed at the top of the Communist regime for more than a decade, while remaining a hated symbol of the repression until his death
The amount of cannabis confiscated more than doubled to 10.2 tons in the January-June period
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