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To highlight the risk, charity served hungry customers battered deep-fried fish-shaped plastic

UN officials report serious abuses by Eritrean government that has triggered a major exodus of Eritreans

Iran has the highest known figure of death sentences carried in 2017 with at least 507 people put to death

Trump is in a funk since Democrats seize control of the House of Representatives

In a first, a Saudi man has been punished under the Anti-Cyber Crime Law in the kingdom

Local organisations are campaigning for authorities to compensate victims of monkey attacks

According to Transparency International, Iraq is the 12th most corrupt country in the world

Activists took to streets of Kuwait's capital twice in September to protest against rising censorship

Deal reportedly allows for review mechanism that Britain could use to try to leave backstop arrangement

Libatique nominated in 2010 for Oscar, BAFTA, ASC and other awards for cinematography in 'Black Swan'

Lula is credited during his two terms as president with lifting millions of Brazilians out of poverty

Today's update to the IUCN Red List illustrates the power of conservation action, says IUCN Director General

Lieberman, a security hardliner heads right-wing Yisrael Beitenu party which holds five seats in 120-seat parliament

New reforms will not lead to mass immigration, adding that most workers would not seek to settle down in Japan

Bangladesh officials remain optimistic that a large-scale refugee return will start as planned on November 15

Trump calls Macron's idea very insulting tweeting that Europe should first pay its share of US subsidises to NATO

At least 234 Palestinians in Gaza have since been killed by Israeli fire, majority during protests and clashes

The island nation has been in crisis since the president sacked prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on October 26

Anucha Tasako was eight and had competed in more than 150 bouts

That is a world record per carat for a pink diamond," says head of Christie's in Europe

Firefighters battle blazes on two fronts in California, 50 dead

Rio Nanda Pratama and his fiancee Intan Syari were due to marry on November 11

Macron's office offered no comment on Trump's criticism

Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour said the council was 'paralysed' and had 'failed to shoulder its responsibility'

Most of the fatalities have been caused by the so-called "Camp Fire" in and around the town of Paradise

Hamas, said in a statement that they would abide by the ceasefire as long as Israel did the same

Ten dazzling treasures that belonged to the ill-fated queen are part of a 100-piece collection

Trump has been slow in filling key posts amid his promises to shake up Washington

Italy is latest country aiming to bring Libya's disparate and often warring factions together after Paris summit

Wedding cancelled 10 days before event after Jarvis finds out fiance was cheating on her

PM Theresa May's cabinet to meet tomorrow with official confirmation expected soon, sources say

Trump labelled French president's call for a real European army as insulting

White House had suspended Acosta's hard pass after he sparred at a news conference with Trump

More than 725,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar's western Rakhine state following military crackdown from last year

Traditionalists say court ignored their beliefs and devotion to Ayyappa, the temple's celibate deity

Delhi, the world's most polluted major city has been covered in a toxic grey haze since the onset of winter last month

Police had asked public to identify man who allegedly stole crate of beer from a shop

Sri Lanka's top court orders independent Elections Commission to halt preparations for the January 5 vote

Up to a million Uighurs have been placed in political re-education camps in the Xinjiang region

Magufuli ordered soldiers to buy up the nuts at $1.44 per kilogramme

Progress stalls on US President Donald Trump's signature foreign policy initiative

He makes announcement a week after new round of sanctions

Khashoggi’s killing has provoked global outrage but little concrete action by world powers against Saudi Arabia

The blaze is 'the deadliest wildland fire in California history,' says Sheriff

Israeli air strikes killed three Palestinians and destroyed a Hamas TV building

Once hailed as a champion in the fight for democracy, Suu Kyi has been stripped of a series of international honours

New enrollments for the 2017-18 school year slumped 6.6 per cent compared with the previous year

Pakistani women were 43% less likely to use the internet than men: ICT

It says emotional desire to bolster national identity more important than facts

747 cargo pilot shares snaps of thousands of cities that pass by shooting stars, Milky Way, and Northern Lights