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Nasheed said the Maldives has nothing against China, but it should not attempt to change the "state type" and have democratic oversight, among other things.

Reporters traveling with Donald Trump were prevented from seeing the First Lady arrive on the plane, but she did exit the plane at West Palm Beach with Trump.

Deadly violence in Rio de Janeiro has spiked in recent years, with an 8 percent increase in killings last year over 2016 and a 26 percent jump since 2015, according to statistics from the Rio state government.

The Memogate case is based on a 'memo' which Haqqani, who currently lives in the US, allegedly gave to a high-ranking American official in May 2011, seeking US help against possible military intervention.

The Department of Homeland Security blasted the Collins-led plan, saying it destroyed the ability of DHS officers to remove millions of undocumented immigrants from the country, and "is an egregious violation of the four compromise pillars laid out by the...

Woolley said he registered Angus after reading news reports that teenagers had filed candidacy paperwork and there were almost no requirements on who could run.

Melinda Gates says some of Trump's comments about women have troubled her, but his rejection of the "feminist" label has not.

United flight 1175, with more than 370 people on board including crew members, landed without incident at Honolulu International Airport, United Airlines Inc spokesman Charles Hobart said.

Customs agents at Portugal's busiest airport found the drugs on the man's body, police said in a statement.

At a Senate hearing, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said Russia, as well as other foreign entities, were "likely" to pursue more cyber-attacks on US and European elections.

The Metropolitan Police said specialists are assessing the powder. Authorities didn't identify the office that received the substance on Tuesday, but said it remains closed.

Human Rights Watch said Duterte's remark, uttered last week before supposedly surrendered communist rebels, is the latest of Duterte's "series of misogynist, derogatory and demeaning statements he has made about women" that encourages state forces to comm...

The peak of Mt Everest played a significant role in the settlement of boundary between Nepal and China, which earlier claimed the whole mountain as part of its territory after it took control of Tibet.

The government said the 4.3 magnitude quake's epicentre was in a county that is part of Hebei's Langfang city.

The US plan involves privatising the ISS, a low-orbit space station piloted by the US space agency NASA and developed jointly with its Russian counterpart.

The ordnance was discovered in King George V Dock, close to the runway of London's most central airport, during planned works.