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On Friday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Thomas Price became the latest casualty of eight months of bedlam in the executive offices of the world's most powerful country.

The refugees drowned in heavy seas off Bangladesh late on Thursday, part of a new surge of people fleeing a Myanmar military campaign that began on Aug. 25 and has triggered an exodus of some 502,000 people.

Volcanologists say the past week's dramatic escalation in tremors indicates an eruption is more likely than not, but they can't say with certainty when it will happen.

Wearing a red dress, Trishna Shakya was taken from her home to an ancient palace in the Nepalese capital's historic Durbar Square where her initiation began with a short ceremony.

COSATU, which along with the South African Communist Party (SACP) and Zuma's African National Congress (ANC) party, is in South Africa's ruling coalition but has previously broken ranks and called for the president to go.

Rheinmetall chief Bodo Herbert Garbe, along with arms agent Abhishek Verma and his wife Anca Maria, was accused of hatching a conspiracy to get Rheinmetall off the Defence Ministry blacklist.

An outspoken evangelical Christian who has twice lost his position as the state's top judge, Roy Moore won election with a fierce anti-Washington message and a call to put religion at the center of public life.

Bellicose statements by US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in recent weeks have created fears that a miscalculation could lead to action with untold ramifications.

Last week, environmental activist group Greenpeace said at least 14 illegal mines and eight clandestine landing strips were already being used by miners in the Denmark-sized reserve known as Renca in the eastern Amazon.

Mayor Sadiq Khan, a Labour politician who has criticised Uber in the past, said on Monday he had asked Transport for London (TfL) to be available to meet CEO Khosrowshahi.

Seventeen Islamic State militants were killed in the first American strikes in Libya since President Donald Trump took office in January.

French President Emmanuel Macron ran for the French presidency on a pledge to "relaunch" Europe, in tandem with Germany, after years of economic and financial crisis and the new shock dealt by Britain's vote last year to leave the bloc.

Results from the vote to renew 171 of 348 seats were expected to leave the French president Emmanuel Macron's Republic on the Move party (LREM) with a group of only 20-30 senators.

Bangladesh's telecoms authority said the ban could be lifted once biometric identity cards are issued to the newly arrived refugees, a process the army says could take six months.

With polls currently suggesting that Germany's oldest party is headed for a record low score, fears are running high within the SPD that getting in bed with the conservatives again will cause it to further lose its working-class appeal.

United Staes officials initially suggested the American diploamts were hurt by some kind of mystery 'acoustic device' but investigations are continuing and the State Department has been reluctant to go into details.