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Beijing struck back at Tokyo, saying the country has become a “regional wave-maker keen on rocking the boat” in the contested region.

The situation for 60,000 civilians trapped in the besieged Iraqi city will deteriorate unless aid gets into the city, the U.N. World Food Program said.

NATO has said it will not return to business as usual until Russia respects international law.

Artillery from Syria wounded at least four people in the border town of Kilis. Media put the figure at five wounded.

The transport minister told reporters Sunday that three pieces of wreckage had arrived from Africa.

Abortion is legal in Italy, but the Council of Europe said a large number of doctors refuse to perform the operation.

The full lower house of Congress now must vote on impeachment proceedings against Brazil’s first female president.

Prime Minister David Cameron defended his tax returns and fielded questions from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Monday.

The attackers reportedly had first planned to hit the soccer tournament scheduled to take place in France this summer but shifted after they felt the police closing in.

China has rattled nerves in the South China Sea with its controversial reclamation work in waters that are also claimed by other countries.

Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, met young entrepreneurs in India’s financial capital on Monday.

However, more than half of the Muslims polled in a survey don't agree with the broader population's approval of homosexuality as legal.

About 11,000 people are stranded along the border between Macedonia and Greece.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made the comments in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, which was devastated by an atomic bomb.

Informants can also apply for other perks, such as priority admission to schools and work promotions, according to the local government’s news portal.

The U.K.’s surveillance agency GCHQ warned the publisher of “Harry Potter And The Half Blood-Prince” of copies of the book that may have leaked online.

The space telescope, which has, since its launch in 2009, discovered over 1,000 exoplanets, is currently functioning in an emergency mode.

According to Russian news agency Interfax, two militants were killed when one blew himself up near the police station in Stavropol.

The head of the Syrian Orthodox Church said that some of those abducted by the militant group were reunited with their families after negotiations and payment of ransoms, BBC reported.

The joint drill comes at a time of heightened tensions in the Korean Peninsula, with North Korea threatening to carry out more nuclear tests.

The global population of wild tigers has risen for the first time in over a century, a survey by the WWF and the Global Tiger Forum showed.

The Panama Papers leak suggested clients of Mossack Fonseca used New Zealand's lax laws to create nontaxed foreign trusts in the South Pacific nation.

Police in the southern Indian state of Kerala also filed a case against the fireworks contractor in connection with the incident that left at least 110 people dead.

Last week, reports said 13 North Korean workers at a restaurant in China defected to Seoul on Thursday — the first mass defection since 2011.

India may also boost imports of natural gas and oil from Iran, whose energy industry has been battered by years of international sanctions.

In contrast, wholesale prices have been in deflation for four years despite a prolonged easing campaign by China's central bank.

The Chinese state-owned bank already faces accusations of aiding illicit money flows from Italy to China.

Keiko Fujimori, a U.S.-educated former congresswoman, needed 50 percent to win power in the first round, but exit polls showed her with support at below 40 percent.

Prime Minister David Cameron will say on Monday that new legislation will make companies criminally liable if employees aid tax evasion.