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Zhang Kai’s release comes ahead of a meeting between President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, but rights groups say China’s crackdown on lawyers and civil society continues.

The widely expected results will likely be viewed as a defeat for Prime Minister John Key who called the existing flag a relic of New Zealand’s colonial past.

There had been speculation that Tuesday’s bombings, which killed 31 civilians and wounded 300 others, were in retaliation to Salah Abdeslam’s arrest in Belgium last week.

Following the announcement, South Korea’s president ordered security forces to strengthen their vigilance against North Korea’s “reckless provocation.”

All 150 people aboard died one year ago when co-pilot Andreas Lubitz steered the plane into a mountain.

Brazil’s laid-back vibe and multiple crises have combined to take the focus off of Rio’s upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The man, identified only as M.M., was caught while authorities were searching a suspicious car in the southeastern province of Gaziantep.

Chen Deming, China’s former commerce minister, said Wednesday that “core issues” related to the investment treaty had been resolved.

Australia said Thursday that debris found in Mozambique “is almost certainly” from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.

The Chinese president will meet with President Barack Obama next week on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in Washington.

The group released a video Wednesday vowing to hack ISIS websites, shut down “thousands” of their Twitter accounts and steal “their Bitcoins.”

The incident occurred in an underground platform in a mine in Shuozhou city in northern Shanxi province, Xinhua News Agency reported.

Su Bin, 50, faces a five-year sentence for conspiring with two others in China to obtain military information and export it illegally.

Items found in Mozambique were “consistent with drift modeling” of how plane parts might have traveled via ocean currents, Australia’s transport minister said.

Hacks were perpetrated against Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, PNC Financial Services and SunTrust Bank, authorities said.

At least 400 operatives trained in Syria, Libya and other locations are being deployed in autonomous cells to launch attacks in areas outside of the Middle East, security officials say.

See India coated in color to honor the beginning of spring.

Regular marijuana use is tied to lower job prospects and greater economic troubles, researchers found.

The U.S. Marines have been tasked with protecting Iraqi army units in Makhmur — a scenario President Obama wanted to avoid as long as possible during his time in office. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin will ultimately decide whether to participate in a prisoner exchange with Ukraine.

Since ISIS came to prominence in Syria and Iraq over the last 21 months, it has raised billions in oil revenues and traded for weapons on the border.

The would-be suicide bombers come from France, German, Spain, Tunisia and Egypt. About 25 are Belgian nationals.

British politicians supporting departure from the EU have capitalized on the attacks in Brussels as support continues to gain in polls.

The French prime minister wants to introduce Europewide system to track airline passengers and stricter border controls.

“This absolute carnage reminds us cruelly and painfully that the fight against terrorism will never be finished,” La Libre wrote in an editorial.

The resolution, coming in response to the attacks in Brussels, will state that the militant group poses a threat to the “value of freedom in all countries.”

The annual holiday celebrates the 1940 resolution that ultimately paved the way for the creation of Pakistan.

British leaders immediately condemned his comments for spreading anti-Muslim sentiment.

Brothers Khalid and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui had ties to the November attacks in Paris and were known to Belgian authorities due to their criminal records.