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The president is elected directly by the people in a vote of one or two rounds

IS members armed with assault rifles and rocket launchers attacked civilian and military vehicles near Rutba

Macron projected to get 24%, Le Pen to secure 22% of votes

Spokeswoman from the Danish Defence Ministry confirms minister had been quoted correctly

Paris prosecutors said the men are accused of participating in a terrorist conspiracy as well as weapons charges

Korean-American Tony Kim was detained by North Korean officials as he attempted to leave the country

Anti-meat drive cooked up to steer India away from secular grounding will have profound consequences for entire region

The men were transporting buffaloes in their truck to a slaughterhouse

He had been planning to travel some 4,000 kilo metres to Perth

DNA tests confirms remains inside a crocodile carcass were of Scott Van Zyl

Military has been struggling to wipe out Abu Sayyaf

France is voting in one of the closest elections in decades

The two countries are still technically at war, although the border remained largely quiet for decades until 2011

North Korea is working to develop nuclear-tipped missiles that can reach the United States

Support for the party has tumbled in recent months

Relationship between the countries had frayed under Obama’s administration

The organization said there was a network of armed gangs under the command of ranchers

Incident occurred a day before France holds first round of its presidential election

The army says it regularly stages operations targeting Islamic State and former al Qaeda-linked militants

The ministry's statement did not say whether they had been allowed to seek asylum in Morocco

The Muslim group said they came to help construct Ram temple at disputed site

26 hunters released after 16-month hostage ordeal

In Pakistan even our farm animals live better than we do in Greece, says a migrant

Ships were in fact sent away from Singapore and towards Australia to conduct drills with the Australian navy

Nurses who worked six hours were found to be more active, less stressed, and had less back and neck pain

Around 140 Afghan soldiers killed on Friday in attack on military base

Participants say the Washington march will be nonpartisan and marks a new frontier for scientists

We look at 13 pictures from events around the world

Vice President also praised China's role in the escalating North Korean crisis

A police officer escorting party members suffers injury to face, a male protester arrested

Rita Gupta warned that MNS would resort to violent methods if clothes were not discarded

She now has her sights set on the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo

The employee violently took a stroller from the woman, hitting her with it and just missing her child

The two sides agreed to consider one more time an objective investigation into the incident

Jurgen Mossack and Ramon Fonseca each paid $500,000 on Friday

Janjgava Revas, 64, and Narmania Malkhaz, 51, had made off with the money from a currency exchange office

Its growing popularity in recent years comes at a cost

Russian officials say two people were killed in the incident

Nine had hatched and the chicks were on their way to a farm, according to an official

The bulk of the outage lasted about seven hours

Immigration Voice estimates there are some 1.5 million H1-B visa holders in the country waiting for green cards

'Will have a big effect on presidential election', he tweeted earlier in the day

Hijazi, 30, had been in custody for 33 months in violation of Egyptian law

Officials identified the slain militant as Abdurakhmon Uzbeki

A US official in Washington put the toll at more than 50 killed and wounded

We look at 13 pictures from events around the world

She was taken by the militants from the village of Kosho together with her mother and sisters

Some of the best cooks in the world think lionfish, a venomous predatory fish is delicious

Lee was convicted and sentenced to death for beating Debra Reese to death with a tire iron in 1993

The scientists dubbed the new species of reptile Prorotodactylus mesaxonichnus