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The previously unknown allegation adds to mounting evidence that contacts between Russians and the Trump campaign were more than just incidental.

Culture Minister Monika Gruetters pledged at Tuesday's handover to Mandel's relatives to do everything possible to return stolen art to rightful owners.

The visit, confirmed by North Korean and Chinese state media, will likely lead to Kim's fourth summit with Xi in the last year and comes amid plans for a second summit with Trump aimed at denuclearising the Korean peninsula.

Sultan Muhammad V's decision marks the first time a king has abdicated in the Muslim-majority country since it gained independence from Britain in 1957.

The US withdrew from a nuclear deal with Iran last year and snapped sanctions in place to choke Iran’s oil and banking industries, while temporarily allowing eight customers to keep buying crude from the Islamic Republic.

China decided in 2016 to relax a controversial 'one-child policy' aimed at curbing population growth and allowed all couples to have two children.

Nancy Pelosi was elected on Thursday as House speaker, the only woman who has held the office and now one of few elected officials who have returned to it.

On December 24 an anti-corruption court in Pakistan sentenced the ousted PM to seven years in jail in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills graft case .

Gao Chengyong, 54, robbed, raped and murdered 11 women and girls between 1988 and 2002 in Gansu and the neighbouring Inner Mongolia region.

Indrajith Coomaraswamy said the IMF had held back discussions on Sri Lanka's next loan tranche due to the political crisis.

China has not disclosed the amount it committed to Pakistan during the maiden visit of Prime Minister Imran Khan to Beijing in November last. Khan had sought Beijing's assistance to tide over difficult balance payment crisis.

A severe storm made it difficult for emergency services to reach the train which had stopped on the Great Belt fixed link between Zealand and Funen, Denmark's two major islands.

Bangladesh's 'Battling Begums' have been fighting each other for three decades, but the 71-year-old Sheikh Hasina is set to extend her record as the country's longest serving leader after dispatching Khaleda Zia, her chief rival.

The UNP led by Wickremesinghe argues that the police cannot be controlled by Sirisena whereas the 19th amendment to the Constitution has restricted the president to just one ministry in addition to the defence ministry.

Around 40 "yellow vest" demonstrators on Thursday tried to storm the medieval fort of Bregancon that serves as Macron's summer retreat before being turned back by police.

Zardari's travel ban comes days after former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was sentenced to seven years in prison for corruption on Monday, the latest in a long string of court cases against him.