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China has faced growing international opprobrium for setting up facilities that UN experts describe as detention centres holding more than one million Uighurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang.

Investigators have found a piece of a stabilizer in the wreckage of the Ethiopian jet with the trim set in an unusual position similar to that of the Lion Air plane, two sources familiar with the matter said.

The 'manifesto' detailing motivations for the New Zealand attack was posted on Friday morning onto a Twitter account with the same name and profile image as the Facebook page that streamed the attack.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the events in Christchurch represented "an extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence" and acknowledged many of those affected may be migrants and refugees.

China's rapid economic growth in the past decade has sharply raised parental expectations, pushing up the cost of pre-wedding gifts that now commonly include a brand new home.

The president of the International Solid Waste Association, a non-profit organization, was travelling to Nairobi to attend the annual assembly of the UN Environment Programme but missed the ill-fated flight as he reached the departure gate just two minute...

Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor and critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.

Carlos Ghosn faces charges of aggravated breach of trust and under-reporting his salary by about $82 million at Nissan for nearly a decade. If convicted on all charges, he faces a maximum jail sentence of 15 years, prosecutors have said.

The confiscation of properties of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) comes after Pakistan formally placed the proscribed organisations in the list of banned organisations on Tuesday.

The World Shipping Council has written to the Sri Lankan prime minister in 2017, affirming that all major international shipping organizations believed Sri Lanka should work with the United Nations to move its traffic lane.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, who would eventually lead any impeachment proceedings, on Sunday signaled a significant escalation into congressional inquiries into the President.

The US President's former lawyer and "fixer" Michael Cohen testified against him before the US House of Representatives at the same time as the Trump-Kim summit last week.

Doctors Without Borders has suspended medical activities after two of its facilities were torched by unidentified assailants in Eastern Congo.

Michael Cohen told the US Congress that Trump directed him last year to lie about hush payments made to Stormy Daniels to silence her claims of an affair with Trump.

Marceli Thomas, from Kerala, was arrested in October following a complaint by Namal Kumara, a police informant, who had alleged a plot to assassinate Sirisena and Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the former top defence ministry bureaucrat and brother of ex-president...

'The Foreign Secretary is going to Saudi this week and I hope there will be progress,' Britain's minister for Asia and the Pacific told parliament.