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Britain votes on December 12, with Prime Minister Johnson hoping to secure a majority to be able to push through his Brexit deal to take the country out of the European Union.

Iraq's capital and its Shiite-majority south have been gripped by the largest grassroots protests since the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.

The bucket used in the most recent attack was recovered by police and is being tested to determine its contents, including possible pathogens.

Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are close allies and key members of a military coalition backing the government in Yemen against the Iran-aligned Huthi rebels.

Donald Trump ordered the hold as he was pressuring Ukraine's president to investigate Democrats, the issue at the heart of the impeachment probe.

Hong Kong Polytechnic University was the epicentre of protest movement when clashes broke out on November 17 between police and protesters armed with bows and arrows as well as Molotov cocktails.

The ‘Student Solidarity March’ organised by the Lahore-based Progressive Students’ Federation (PRSF) will be held on Friday at over 50 locations across Pakistan.

Democrats have charged that Trump abused his power to enlist Ukraine in smearing his political rivals, in part by withholding the nearly $400 million package of aid the country desperately needed.

Detectives estimate the man’s body was in the freezer from between 1 and 11 years based on when residents in the apartment complex say they last saw him. The autopsy didn’t narrow down that time frame, Hansen said.

He blasted Trump's policies that resulted in the separation of families arriving on the border.

Attacks targeting UN personnel working to help the Afghan people are unconscionable, and we condemn this act in the strongest possible terms, Pompeo said.

The creation of an Emancipation Educational Trust will ensure historical injustice, colonialism and role of the British empire is taught in the National Curriculum, notes the supplementary manifesto.

Making an efficient statement before a bank of television cameras at a hotel ballroom, Bloomberg described himself as a political pragmatist skilled at wielding his wealth to win elections.

Three men were imprisoned as teenagers for the shooting of a middle school student over his jacket. That was 1983. On Monday, three men — now graying and in their 50s — walked out of prison, freed after spending all of their adult lives behind bars.

The civilian leader of the Navy said he could not in good conscience follow an order by the president to allow a Navy SEAL accused of war crimes to retire without losing his SEAL status.

The detention of liberals in the midst of a much-hyped liberalisation drive underscores what observers call increasing repression and authoritarianism under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's de facto rule as he consolidates his grip on power.