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Tens of thousands are expected to take to the streets in Hong Kong on Sunday to demand the resignation of Chief Executive Carrie Lam.

A severe heatwave in the Indian state of Bihar has left at least 45 people dead and more than 100 hospitalised in the last 24 hours.

Drought-hit Namibia has authorised the auction of at least 1,000 wild animals to limit loss of life.

At least eight Kenyan police officers have been killed after their patrol vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device near the Somali border.

A massive manhunt has been launched in Japan after a police officer was stabbed several times and his loaded handgun stolen while on patrol.

A United Airlines flight skidded off a runway Saturday at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, leading to delays.

US President Donald Trump has launched yet another attack on London Mayor Sadiq Khan, calling him a "disaster" in response to violence in the city.

There is no tsunami threat to New Zealand after a strong 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the Kermadec Islands region in the Pacific Ocean.

Tony Blair has responded strongly to Jeremy Corbyn's claims that the former leader didn't do enough to tackle inequality while he was in power.

Efforts are underway to find the bodies of a group of climbers that were most likely killed in an avalanche on the Himalayas.

Donald Trump has backed down on comments he made on whether or not her would report foreign interference in a campaign.

The man who stabbed Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro last September has been acquitted.

Religious exemptions can no longer be applied when it comes to giving vaccines to children in New York.

China has denied that one of its fishing vessels abandoned 22 Filipinos after their boat sank in the South China Sea.

Tanzania has decided to impose a tax on wigs and hair extensions.

A six-year-old Indian migrant has died in an Arizona desert.

Hordes of Venezuelans have made a last minute dash to cross the Peru border.

Hong Kong has suspended a contentious change in the law that allows extraditions to mainland China.

Another politician has exited the race to become the next Conservative leader and British Prime Minister. 

A group of international investigators who are looking in to the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 have said they will present their latest findings next week.

Dominica has been removed from a European Union blacklist of tax havens. 

Indonesia’s opposition party says President Joko Widodo’s election victory was made possible through “systematic electoral fraud and abuse of power.”

Opinion polls in Ukraine suggest that Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s new party could win a majority in next month’s parliamentary elections.

Kellyanne Conway could be in hot water.

A famous ancient tower has collapsed in Afghanistan. 

Boris Johnson received the most number of votes in the opening MPs' ballot to select the next Conservative Party leader and British prime minister.

Sarah Sanders will soon no longer be the White House Press Secretary.

Thousands of women across Switzerland have hit the streets.

The main suspect in March’s Christchurch mosque attacks has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Riot police have been deployed in Hong Kong and government offices shut down for the rest of the week after scenes of violence and chaos shook the city.

A Sri Lankan church that was bombed during the Easter attacks held its first service since restoration work was completed.

The man accused of carrying out the twin massacres at New Zealand mosques is expected to face a new terrorism charge this Friday.

A woman who tested positive for Ebola virus has died in Uganda, taking the death toll in the latest outbreak to two.

Bahrain is all set to phase out the use of plastic products.

French president Emmanuel Macron has promised to send a new oak tree to his American counterpart Donald Trump after the first one died in quarantine.

Yemen’s Houthi militia has targeted an airport in Saudi Arabia, injuring 26 people.

Vietnam has asked firms to stop advertising on Google's YouTube videos that contain "anti-state propaganda".

Hong Kong lawmakers have been forced to delay a planned debate of a controversial extradition bill after tens of thousands of people stormed key roads in protest.

Authorities in New Zealand have found the body of a missing British hiker near a waterfall in the Tararua Range outside the capital Wellington.

Swedish authorities have confirmed that no explosives were found outside a police station in the southern Swedish town of Linkoping.

Russian investigative journalist Ivan Golunov has been released from house arrest after authorities unexpectedly dropped drug charges.

Almost 300,000 people are being evacuated in India's west coast as a severe cyclone is expected to make landfall early Thursday.

The pilot who died after his chopper crash-landed atop a Manhattan skyscraper was not licenced to fly during bad weather.

Hungarian rescue officials have recovered four bodies after they started raising a tourist boat that capsized on the Danube river in Budapest last month.

Three people have been killed and three more injured in an explosion on an oil tanker and subsequent fire in the southern Russian port of Makhachkala.

At least five people have been killed and thousands more stranded after torrential rain lashed parts of China.

A helicopter crash-landed on the roof of a building in New York City on Monday afternoon, killing the pilot.

At least seven people have drowned after a migrant boat overturned off the Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's deceased half brother Kim Jong-Nam was working as a spy for American intelligence.

Authorities in Malaysia are working to identify the cause of a mystery illness that has killed 12 indigenous people in a village in Kelantan state.

Several shops remained shut across Sudan on Monday in an attempt to pressurise the ruling military government to make way for civilian rule.

Undeterred by massive protests, Hong Kong has vowed to press ahead with a controversial plan to allow extradition to China.

At least one person has died and five others injured after a crane fell onto an apartment building in Dallas.

A special fast-track court in India has convicted six men for the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir last year.

The oak tree planted by US President Donald Trump and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, at the White House has withered and died.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to announce steps towards a federal ban on single-use plastics on Monday.

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Hong Kong in bid to thwart a proposed extradition law.

Authorities in Nepal will use DNA to help identify the bodies of four climbers who failed their Everest challenge.

Turkey's Defence Ministry has "neutralised" 43 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.

A court in Russia has put a journalist known for investigating corruption among Moscow city officials under house arrest for two months.

Protest groups have announced a nationwide "civil disobedience" campaign to force the military council to transfer power to civilian rule.

Albanian President Ilir Meta has cancelled local elections, saying the political tensions in the country would not allow for fair elections.

Thousands of people crossed the border between Venezuela and Colombia after it reopened for the first time in four months.

The former Brexit secretary says the move will prevent lawmakers from stopping a no-deal Brexit.

The two countries struck a deal to avoid a tariff war.

The Spanish city's council realised in 2016 that Gaudi's spectacular church had never been granted planning permission.

A group of 14 lions have escaped from Kruger National Park near the Mozambique border.

Nearly 600 million people fall ill and 420,000 die from eating contaminated food, according to the World health organization (WHO).

A suspected explosion has damaged apartment buildings in the south of Sweden leaving 25 people injured.

British Prime Minister Theresa May will step down as Conservative Party leader on Friday, but remain Prime Minister until a successor is elected in July.

Australian police have found 1.6 tonnes of methamphetamine in the country's biggest onshore seizure.

The search operations for the missing Indian Air Force (IAF) transport aircraft has entered the fourth day.

Egyptian security forces have killed 14 militants, a day after eight police officers were killed in a checkpoint attack in northern Sinai.

A German nurse has been handed a life sentence for murdering 85 patients in his care.

Authorities in Sudan have lowered the death toll from the crackdown on a pro-democracy camp by more than 60.

The leaders of the United States, Britain and France are joining veterans in northern France for a second day to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.

Several districts across south India have been put on high alert after a 23-year-old man was diagnosed with the deadly Nipah virus in Kerala.

A woman has been arrested in the Philippines for cracking a "bomb joke" at a train station in Manila.

The body of a British tourist was found in a fish sanctuary in the southern town of Cebu.

The number of people killed in the Sudanese military's raid of a protest camp in Khartoum has risen to 60.

The cable supporting an out-of-service ski lift at the Swiss mountain resort of Titlis Engelberg ripped during maintenance work, injuring several people.

At least eight Egyptian security personnel have been killed after militants stormed a checkpoint in north Sinai.

North Korea's famed 'Mass Games' has been put on hold after leader Kim Jong-Un criticised the creators of this year's performance.

Indian officials have halted attempts to retrieve the bodies of five climbers killed in an avalanche in the Himalayas after encountering technical issues.

Australian police have raided offices of the country's public broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) in Sydney.

Personal details of students, staff and visitors of a top Australian university has been exposed in a "sophisticated" data breach.

Sudan's ruling military council has called for elections a day after paramilitaries attacked a protest camp in Khartoum.

US President Donald Trump is set to meet British Prime Minister Theresa May for "substantial" talks later Tuesday, as Londoners join forces for the "largest protest against a foreign leader".

The south Indian state of Kerala has confirmed one case of the deadly Nipah virus, which killed 17 people last year.

Thousands of women in Japan have signed a petition calling for a ban on dress codes that force them to wear high heels at work.

Indian air force pilots have spotted five bodies in the Himalayas while searching for eight missing climbers.

An Indian Air Force (IAF) transport aircraft with 13 people onboard has gone missing after taking off from an airbase in the northeastern state of Assam.

US President Donald Trump landed in London’s Stansted airport on Monday for his first official state visit to the UK.

At least nine people have been killed and several others injured after Sudanese security forces stormed a protest camp in central Khartoum early Monday.

A top North Korean official has appeared in public with the country's top brass, defying previous reports that he had been the victim of a high-profile purge.

The gunman who killed 12 people at a municipal building in a US beach resort city had submitted his resignation hours before the shooting.

At least eight infants have been killed in Pakistan after the air-conditioning unit in a hospital ward broke down.

Authorities in Italy are calling for the ban of large vessels from Giudecca Canal in Venice after an out-of-control liner rammed a river tourist boat.

Two French men have been sentenced to death in Iraq after the court found them guilty of joining the IS terror group.

A search operation is underway to find a group of eight climbers who went missing during an expedition in India's second highest mountain.

Chinese Defence Minister has clarified that "Huwaei is not a military company" despite its founder Ren Zhengfei’s previous career in the army.

At least 14 people have been injured after an automated train near Tokyo went in the wrong direction.

All US visa applicants will now have to undergo social media screening.

Nearly 30 people have been injured after a fire broke out a migrant camp in Bosnia.

The USA has continued its attack against Huawei.

A second case of African swine fever has been reported in Hong Kong.

Mexico is looking to take steps to reduce the number of immigrant that try to cross over the US border.

Donald Trump has backed Boris Johnson to be the next leader of Conservative Party.

A mass shooting in the US state of Virginia has left at least 12 people dead.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has named Nirmala Sitharaman as the country's next finance minister.

A Dutch hostage has been killed in the Philippines.

The Philippines has sent back tonnes of rubbish to Canada.

The leaders of Russia and Japan are set to meet next month.

Several people have been killed after a car bomb targeting a US convoy exploded in Kabul.

The US will soon impose tariffs on all goods coming from Mexico.

The captain of a marine vessel that hit a tour boat in Hungary, leading to the death of at least seven people, has been arrested.

Seven South Koreans have died after a tourist boat capsized on the flooding Danube in the Hungarian capital on Wednesday.

A UK court has extended the remand of Indian diamond merchant Nirav Modi till June 27.

A Pakistani lawmaker has been detained after he accused authorities of lying about a deadly clash between activists and security forces near a checkpoint along the Afghan border.

Julian Assange has missed his court hearing via a video link from a British prison, with his lawyers saying his health has deteriorated severely.

At least six people have been killed and six more injured following a suicide bomb attack at a military training centre in the Afghan capital on Thursday.

A hospital in San Diego has disclosed the birth of the world's smallest baby ever to survive.

Papua New Guinea has appointed former finance minister James Marape as the new prime minister, following weeks of political upheaval.

A Ukrainian military helicopter Mi-8 crashed late on Wednesday, killing all four crew members.

Sixteen people have been charged in Bangladesh over the horrific murder of a 19-year-old girl.

An Australian teenager who broke an egg on a far-right senator's head has donated $100,000 to support Christchurch attack victims.

The grounded Boeing 737 Max fleet isn’t expected to return to the skies for at least another two months or more.

A man has been caught hiding in a vehicle's glove box while attempting to cross over from Morocco to Spain.

Police in Brazi carried out a massive anti-murder operation across every state, arresting 968 suspects in just one day.

Severe weather warnings are in place across central America with reports of more than 500 tornadoes hitting parts of the country. 

Chinese telecom giant Huawei is challenging the constitutionality of a trade ban on its products in a US court.

At least two people have been killed and 15 others injured after a man launched a knife attack in a residential area outside Tokyo.

More than 240 bags of cocaine were found in the body of a Japanese man who died on a flight from Mexico to Japan.

Thousands of North Koreans are forced to pay bribes in their country to avoid threats of detention and prosecution.

British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt on Tuesday said the draft withdrawal deal agreed by Prime Minister Theresa May with the EU in November needs to be renegotiated.

At least 42 inmates have been found dead at four prisons in the capital of Brazil's northern Amazonas state on Monday.

Three suspects have been arrested following last week's blast in the French city of Lyon that left 13 people wounded.

European Union elections delivered a fractured mandate, with no party able to secure a majority in the 751-seat chamber.

Six people suspected of plotting to assassinate four state officials during a wave of civil unrest in Jakarta have been arrested.

North Korea on Monday called US National Security Adviser John Bolton a "war monger" after he termed the North's recent missile tests a violation of UN resolutions.

Pakistan's top court on Monday started hearing cases through video link.

Security has been beefed up in Nepal amid a general strike called by an outlawed communist group, demanding the release of its supporters from custody.

At least two people have been killed and several others injured after a tornado slammed into the American state of Oklahoma.

US President Donald Trump has become the first foreign leader to meet with Japan's newly enthroned Emperor Naruhito.

At least 15 people have been killed after violent clashes erupted in a prison in the Brazilian state of Amazonas on Sunday.

Saudi Arabia says it has intercepted a Houthi drone that was heading toward King Abdullah Airport in Jizan.