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French officials asked to postpone all non-essential travel to Iran indefinitely

More than 20 civil rights groups, lawyers forums and trade unions are launching a campaign against Tuesday's crackdown

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying denied seeking a military presence in Afghanistan

Saudi Arabia's military said its air defences intercepted a missile fired towards the city of Najran

Currently, about 14,000 US troops are in Afghanistan

Dual nationals abdicated from government position

Trump said everything was at stake for his conservative agenda if his party loses in November

Firefighters arrived shortly after midnight with a crane to lift the four-metre tall golden effigy of Erdogan

The death toll could climb as some of the wounded in critical condition

Mattis defended America's ongoing role in the war

Eleftherios Venizelos, carrying 875 passengers and 141 crew, was sailing off the island of Hydra

Myanmar demands strong evidence of any alleged abuses for investigation to be undertaken

Yan offers frank portrayals of Chinese life prompting years of state censorship

A homemade bomb hidden under a motorcycle killed two people, one a child, and wounded 37

Owners appealed to Israeli courts to have settlers evicted from their land

The quake struck at a shallow depth of 10 km

Roy Oliver fired five bullets into a car full of teens last year

The findings suggest livestock species have very sophisticated minds to interpret their environment

Defense Secretary James Mattis says no decisions are made about major exercises for next year

Peru, Colombia and Brazil meet in Colombian capital Bogota for a summit to discuss how to cope with the influx

Recent surge of attacks in Burkina Faso is result of pressure on militant insurgents in neighbouring Mali and Niger

Hurricane Maria pummelled Puerto Rico wreaked widespread devastation and caused $90 billion in damages

The 16-year-old has appeared in court to face charges of attempted murder and several firearms violations

Leia Pierce says, her son Jamel Myles, has killed himself at home after enduring several days of homophobic bullying

The delegation has held meeting for hours with Ali Mamluk, the head of Syria's security services

Nine-member delegation is headed by Indian Water Commissioner PK Saxena

Founder Cheng Wei and president has apologised for their ignorance and pride in an emotive note, promising safety

The crew has reported a fault in one of the Airbus A320’s engines

The accord is going to set a sweeping goal of ending fossil fuel era this century, but the text is vague on details

Many of these violations amount to war crimes, the report says, pointing to arbitrary detention, rape, torture

Hundreds perished in the flood and more than one million people were forced to abandon their homes

Some 700,000 Rohingya fled the crackdown and most are now living in refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh

French Environment Minister announces resignation from cabinet citing disappointed environmental goals

Reshuffling ministry to shield the economy from Trump’s moves Rouhani tries to tamp down public discontent

Iran has argued that US President Donald Trump breached a 1955 treaty with his decision to reimpose sanctions

Some 60% of women in Egypt said they had been victims of some form of sexual harassment

The Vostok-2018 exercises will be carried out from September 11 to 15

Revisions to the draft civil code will be submitted to China’s annual parliamentary meeting in March 2020

The 50-page complaint calls for Duterte's indictment over extrajudicial killings during his crackdown on drugs

There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties

Khokhar had been living in Ireland since 2015 and received a deportation order earlier this summer

Cindy McCain has emerged as one of the more prominent names of possible appointees to succeed him

Strikes that fail to spare people or structures protected by international humanitarian law considered unlawful

Asylum-seekers from a Vietnamese boat that ran aground in crocodile-infested waters off Australia

#MeToo movement has escalated in China with accusations of sexual assault spreading across social media

We will react to all attacks in accordance with the principle of reciprocity, says Lavrov

Turkey's Minister of Treasury said sanctions could ultimately aggravate region's terrorism and refugee crises

The 84-year-old emperor's decision to abdicate has given experts a rare head start in choosing the new era's name

Israel faces a variety of threats and considers Iran its most dangerous foe in the region

Saudi Arabia overturned the world's only ban on female motorists in June