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Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters a joint statement by the embassies calling for Wu Gan's release and for lawyer Xie Yang to be allowed to return to work was irresponsible
Japanese authorities indict North Korean captain of boat that drifted to coast on charges of stealing a generator, appliances and other equipment from uninhabited island
In comments published in Hurriyet newspaper, Erdogan also says his government 'laughed' off a request for Turkey to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir during an Islamic summit in Istanbul this month
In August, traffickers heaved scores of migrants into the sea off Yemen, leaving more than 50 to drown
The journalists and their staff were detained Oct 27 after attempting to fly a drone over the legislative complex in the capital, Naypitaw
Fourteen sentenced in bombing at the Ho Chi Minh City airport, where no one died; nine sentenced for spreading propaganda
Forecasters say the arctic air is settling over the central US and spreading east
Supporters say it’s needed to protect citizens who are investigated but never charged; critics say it muzzles police
A bucket-shaped mask with an open mouth and cut-out eyes is the oldest object, dating to 3500 BC
A working-class salesman gets 19 years in prison for an offense not likely to be prosecuted elsewhere
President Donald Trump will meet with Paul Ryan, speaker of the House, and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, to determine their approach in the new year
President Trump is less engaged on local charity circuit than other recent presidents, with no stops at local food banks or to help elementary school reading drives
With each tweet about Clinton probe, Trump seems to be further undermining his administration's stated rationale for termination that's now central to special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation
A storm brought 34 inches of snow on Christmas Day to Erie, Pennsylvania, an all-time daily snowfall record for the Great Lakes city, and 26.5 more inches on Tuesday
Various drones have been employed to combat illegal fishing and save the critically endangered vaquita marina, the world's smallest porpoise
Like all of director Paul Thomas Anderson's efforts, 'Phantom Thread' is beautiful and intriguing, but it's also a film that is like its central character: easy to respect and admire, and nearly impossible to fully love
Technically, sexual harassment in the US became illegal under in 1964, but it took three more decades of court rulings to establish current concepts of what it entails
The groups said legal procedures against the men were flawed and at least one of the 15 appears to have been tortured in detention
Separatists handed over 74 prisoners, while Ukrainian authorities delivered 233 in largest trade of captives since start of conflict in 2014
Policy of selling off used trailers left FEMA with a standing inventory of only 1,700 units as an unusually-active hurricane season battered southeast Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands this year
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