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Germany says it does not believe Bashar al-Assad can continue as Syria's leader under a future peace agreement.

Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez was indicted Tuesday in a corruption case involving public works.

At least 32 people, mostly Christians, have died and nearly 50 others fell sick after consuming illegally-brewed toxic liquor on Christmas eve in a town in Pakistan's Punjab province, officials said on Tuesday.

President Barack Obama expressed confidence that he would have been able to marshal enough support to defeat Donald Trump if he had been eligible to run for a third term.

Trump says the UN has "such great potential," but it has become "a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time. So sad!"

Taiwan said on Monday it was closely monitoring the movements of China's sole aircraft carrier and five other warships, which earlier passed south of the island on an exercise held amid worsening cross-strait relations.

It's been a white — but slick and messy — Christmas for the northern Plains and some Western states.

Pakistan has asked the World Bank to 'fulfil its obligations' regarding the Indus Water Treaty as it objected to the body pausing two concurrent processes related to Indo-Pak dispute over Kishenganga and Ratle project.

In an ancient Iraqi Christian town recently liberated from the Islamic State (IS) terror group, Christmas was celebrated for the first time in over two years on Saturday, a media report said on Sunday.

Jason Miller, who President-elect Donald Trump announced this week would serve as his White House communications director, said on Saturday he would not take the job.

At least 14 people were killed and 16 others injured when a bus fell off a cliff on Saturday while travelling from Johor Baru to Kuala Lumpur, the authorities said.

In this world, women like Ameri and her young daughter are treated as property: taken as payment for a debt, to settle disputes, or as revenge if a landowner wants to punish his worker.

With 18 of its 34 planes getting grounded, cash-strapped Pakistan International Airlines has plunged into serious operational crisis after its flight carrying 47 people crashed near Islamabad.

Federal prosecutors say 40-year-old Ganesh Parkar, of Robbinsville, moved from his ticketed seat in business class on Wednesday and sat next to a woman in economy class on an Air India flight from Mumbai.

At least 47 people were killed, including 14 minors and nine women, in Turkish air strikes against the Syrian city of al-Bab, controlled by the Islamic State terrorist organisation, media reports said.

The death toll in Siberia from people drinking bath essence containing methanol rose to 71 on Thursday, the Russian health ministry said.