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Typhoon Kammuri, the 20th to enter the Philippines this year, hit land on Monday night, prompting forced evacuation of thousands of residents and cancellation of hundreds of flights.

Attending Friday prayers is obligatory for Muslim men in Malaysia, but it is rare for such harsh punishments to be meted out for missing them.

A team of researchers report the discovery of oases just beneath the ancient ice sheets that likely helped life persevere during Earth's most severe ice age.

The US Trade Representative announced this on Monday after it completed the first segment of its investigation under section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974.

A self-styled 'disruptive technologist', Virgil Griffith was arrested after speaking at a conference in Pyongyang on using digital currencies to launder money.

Offensives against the Islamic State’s Afghan branch have brought it down to several hundred fighters, officials say. But they warn that the group’s cruelty is still a threat.

The row erupted in March after Mayor Christoph D'Haese defended a deliberately anti-Semitic carnival float depicting puppets of hook-nosed Orthodox Jews with rats sitting on money bags.

The House Judiciary Committee will take the lead as the Democratic-led House pushes closer to a possible vote on charges against President Donald Trump.

The Federal Aviation Administration said that the Pilatus PC-12, a single-engine turboprop plane, crashed shortly after take-off approximately a mile from the Chamberlain airport and was carrying as many as 12 people.

The 16-hour trip were shrouded in secrecy under the protocol that a war zone visit by the US commander-in-chief demands.

Macron also again took aim at Turkey, saying its unilateral offensive against a Western-backed Kurdish militia in Syria 'endangers the actions of the anti-IS coalition of which NATO is a member'.

Kuldip Sahota, contesting the Ludlow constituency in Shropshire, demanded a Tory party investigation after Philip Dunne said he was speaking through his turban during an exchange over the region's education budgets.

Rescue teams were still shovelling away massive chunks of collapsed apartments and hotels in the coastal city of Durres, where nearly 30 buildings were badly damaged.

Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, has repeatedly said he has no business in Ukraine, and none of the deals were finalised.

Time is on Trump’s side. The realistic window for Congress to consider impeaching him is closing, with the 2020 election less than a year away.

There are no women and and no members from the Tamil and Muslim minorities among the 38 new ministers. However, the 16-member interim Cabinet included two Tamils and a woman.