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Midterm poll seen as likely opening way for president to deliver on pledges to restore death penalty, rewrite constitution
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's preferred successor, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, says that she would not seek the top job before Merkel's term ends in 2021
Three main contenders vie to follow Dalia Grybauskaite who has been tipped as a contender to be the next president of the European Council
Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir wielded considerable influence during Lebanon’s civil war
President takes to Twitter after trade talks between the US and China ended Friday without a deal
Convictions are latest under hardline leadership intolerant of dissent
Three activists, who had been reportedly been returned from exile in Vietnam, are accused of insulting Thailand's powerful monarchy
Burundi ranks 159th out of 180 countries in the latest Reporters Without Borders press freedom index
The remains of political prisoners who were executed by the Nazis and dissected for research will be laid to rest
According to local newspaper Eleven Media, prison department director Min Tun Soe said the riots were triggered over the inmate anger at not being included in the amnesty
Ten most viewed drugs on television cost between $488 and $16,938 a month, according to government
Massive study covering 200 countries and territories showed an average gain of roughly five to six kilos per woman and man in the countryside from 1985-2017
Trump said he had talked to GM chief Mary Barra who told him of plans to sell the Lordstown, Ohio plant to Workhorse, a company that focuses on producing electric delivery vehicles
Under the program, suspended over lack of communication, North Korea returned the remains of more than 50 US servicemen killed in the 1950s Korean war
An estimated 10,000 New York drivers heed strike call, according to New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an organizer of action
Asia Bibi was convicted and sentenced to death for committing blasphemy and using defamatory language about Islam's Prophet Muhammad in 2009
Protest leaders submitted proposed changes they want enforced in a new civilian structure in Sudan, but kept silent on Sharia
US State Department, without directly criticizing the election body's recent decision, said that free elections were "a fundamental pillar in any democracy"
Fine for negligence in quality control against the Volkswagen subsidiary is the latest in a string of fines against VW over its years-long 'dieselgate' scandal
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