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Maria Ressa's libel trial opens Tuesday in a case that press freedom advocates see as government retaliation for her news site's critical reporting on country's president
The space agency published documents explaining in detail what it is looking for in a lunar lander that will bring the two astronauts, one a woman, to the moon
For both locals and climate experts, declining fish numbers reflect a combination of environmental change and overfishing that augurs ill for the future.
Hong Kong has been plunged into its worst crisis in recent history by weeks of marches, which drew millions, and sporadic violent confrontations between police and pockets of hardcore protesters
Mobile phone operators suspended internet data on June 21 in eight townships across northern Rakhine and one in neighboring Chin state — where soldiers are fighting ethnic Rakhine rebels known as the Arakan Army (AA) who want greater autonomy.
A British-Iranian mother jailed in Tehran since 2016 has been returned to prison after being held in the mental ward of a public hospital for nearly a week, her husband said Monday
Gunmen stormed a bar in the village of Gbale in the state of Kwara and seized the men on Saturday, national police spokesman Frank Mba told AFP
The man diedy in the town of Dilling in the state of South Kordofan after he was detained by agents of the feared National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), the doctors committee said in a statement
The first launch attempt was scrubbed just under an hour before the scheduled lift-off because of what authorities described as a 'technical snag.' Local media, citing ISRO officials, said that issue was a fuel leak.
PM Shinzo Abe is hoping to shore up his mandate ahead of a crucial consumption tax hike later this year, along with trade negotiations with Washington
A heavy emission of ash into the sky forced the closure of two airports in Sicily's second-biggest city of Catania. They partially reopened early Saturday
Maxence Melo battles an increasing restrictive press environment
Daphne Caruana Galizia was responsible for a number of corruption exposes targeting both the current prime minister and opposition figures
Moscow's Lefortovsky district court ruled that the sailors must stay in detention for an extra three months until Oct. 24
Trend is driven by a steep decline in deaths linked to prescription painkillers
Sri Lanka's chief prosecutor on Wednesday ordered the arrest of a top officer at the police watchdog over his alleged involvement in a multi-million dollar gun-running racket
Among the newspapers affected is 75-year-old El Nacional which ran its last physical edition — which had already dropped from 72 to just 16 pages — on December 13 last year
Germany's conservative defense minister Ursula von der Leyen, 60, becomes the first woman in Brussels' top job, replacing Jean-Claude Juncker on November 1
Lipton said part of the problem with capitalism, a cause of anger for its perceived unfairness, is the rise of excessive inequality
Fathi Hamad, a member of the movement's top political body, draws outrage from both Israeli and Palestinian officials as well as a U.N. envoy
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