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World Kindness Day was first celebrated in 1998 by The World Kindness Movement. This is an organisation formed at a 1997 Tokyo conference by the like-minded kindness organisations from around the world.

The new phase in the crisis, which has forced schools and shopping malls to close as well as the shutdown of large chunks of the vital train network, prompted police to warn on Tuesday the city was 'on the brink of total collapse'.

Britain is holding a national election on December 12 but is struggling with election laws that have not yet been updated to face the digital age.

The Mexican government's support has helped cement its emerging role as a bastion of diplomatic support for left-wing leaders in Latin America.

In 2017 a brutal military crackdown forced 740,000 Rohingya to flee over the border into sprawling camps in Bangladesh in violence that UN investigators say amounts to 'genocide'.

Blaming Kurdish YPG militia, the Turkish defence ministry said that the bombing took place southeast of the Syrian town of Tel Abyad which Turkey captured in a military offensive that began one month ago.

The former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak must enter his defence on seven charges related to the theft of 42 million ringgit (USD 10.1 million) from a former unit of sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.

Online video showed a police officer collaring one protester and then shooting another who approaches in a video posted on Facebook by video outlet Cupid Producer.

Since Maryam Nawaz is an accused in a corruption case, she has had to submit her passport in the Lahore High Court.

The Cabinet voted on Sunday for hard-line politician Naftali Bennett to become defence minister until a permanent government takes hold.

The toppling of the wall, which separated the Communist-ruled East from the capitalist West in Berlin for nearly three decades and became a potent symbol of the Cold War, was followed a year later by the reunification of Germany in 1990.

The incident occurred during Trump's visit to watch the University of Alabama football game. The balloon, which is over 20 feet (6.1 meters) tall, was set up in a nearby park.

Hong Kong police brought charges against three key pro-democracy lawmakers while four other lawmakers said they had been ordered to attend a police station later Saturday to be booked.

The latest met office bulletin said Bulbul was 280 kilometers southwest of Bangladesh's southwestern Mongla Port and 315 km southwest of Payra Port while it was moving in a north/northeastern direction.

Lawmakers said that their colleagues are expected to be charged with obstructing the local assembly during a raucous May 11 meeting over a now-shelved China extradition bill.

The mine, located just outside the city of Halle, was closed in 1982 but is being used to deposit mining waste from elsewhere.