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South African President Jacob Zuma is already facing calls for his resignation, but the High Court's ruling intensifies the pressure on him.

“Each individual’s wealth would be lower than it would otherwise have been by around 45,000 pounds,” JPMorgan Chase & Co. said in a report. “This is huge.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that Moscow would take “military-technical action” if Sweden joined NATO.

In 2012, detectors at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica recorded a high-energy neutrino outburst. Now, researchers believe they have discovered its point of origin.

The 62-year-old man is accused of attempting to steal classified military information and providing data to a South Korean spy agency.

Critics say the new law, which requires all foreign nongovernmental organizations to be approved and scrutinized by Chinese police, could damage international cooperation.

The 19-nation bloc grew at its fastest pace in a year in the first quarter of 2016, but consumer prices fell more than expected.

Major, the U.K.'s last Conservative leader before David Cameron, said the country's relationship with the U.S. would "wither" if it left the EU.

Police officials in China’s Shaanxi province are probing the incident and said initial investigations showed the incident was the result of arson.

Chinese state media has questioned the GOP front-runner’s desire for friendly relations, terming his foreign policy “inconsistent.”

In February’s election, President Hassan Rouhani’s moderate and reformist allies won all of Tehran’s 30 seats, but failed to get a majority.

On Friday, the People’s Bank of China raised the midpoint for yuan’s trading band against the dollar at its sharpest pace in nearly 11 years.

Four people were also reportedly injured in the fire, which started underground in a pile of insulation material.

Thousands of delegates are expected in the capital, Pyongyang, from May 6 for the first congress in 36 years.

Venezuela struggles with days of looting, following widespread shortages in energy and basic goods.

A deadly U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan Oct. 3 destroyed a hospital run by the international medical charity Doctors Without Borders.

It will spend 725 million euros on defense in 2017, about 1.8 percent of its economy and almost as much as it spent from 2011 to 2013.

Workers striking Thursday burned tires as tens of thousands of protesters marched in Paris, Rennes, Nantes and Marseille.

American officials have warned that the Islamic State group has cells operating in Germany, Britain and Italy.

Mitigate its effects by being careful with communication and taking time to review your life.

Nnamdi Okonkwo, managing director of Fidelity Bank PLC in Lagos, has been arrested by Nigeria's anti-corruption agency.

The decision to republish Charlie Hebdo's controversial cartoon of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad last year sparked a nationwide debate over press freedom.

It is the first visit for Vice President Joe Biden since U.S. forces withdrew in 2011 following a nine-year occupation.

Two senior Islamic State group fighters were killed and a third arrested in Lebanon on Thursday during an army raid.

“We need the support of the World Bank for the repatriation of the funds,” Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said.

German lawmakers have pushed for welfare reforms in recent months, after Germany's Federal Social Court ruled foreigners from the EU could obtain benefits after living in the country for six months.

A recent Pew poll appeared to show vastly differing views toward the role of the Quran in making law.

The move was spurred in part by increasing worries from neighboring countries over the deteriorating condition of two of Belgium’s nuclear plants.

The increase comes as European nations debate whether to continue their economic sanctions against Russia over the Kremlin’s actions in Ukraine.