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Yanis Varoufakis, who was finance minister in the first Syriza government of leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in 2015, created DiEM25 as a transnational, anti-establishment movement, hit by the fallout of the 2008 economic crisis.

With Pyongyang sending a senior delegation including Kim Jong Un's younger sister rumors had circulated such a meeting could be in the works. A top Foreign Ministry official seemed to rule that out in comments carried by the North's state-run media on Thu...

So far, the technology has allowed police to nab seven suspects accused of crimes ranging from human trafficking to hit and runs, as well as another 26 people who were using fake IDs, according to the state-owned People's Daily, quoting the city's police...

It comes two weeks after the US blacklisted six people accused of supporting the Taliban and Haqqani network in Afghanistan, and stressed their links to Pakistan.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, calling the event "the snowfall of the century", said one person had been killed when a tree brought down electricity lines, one of over 2,000 trees toppled under the sheer weight of the snow.

The Iraq drawdown also follows the release of the Pentagon's National Defense Strategy that cited China's rapidly expanding military and an increasingly aggressive Russia as the US military's top national security priorities.

The government had expressed "concerns" over the judicial order and resisted complying with it, but the court on Sunday said there can be no excuses.

In a message to congratulate Sri Lanka on its 70th anniversary of Independence from British rule, Xi told his counterpart Maithripala Sirisena that China is willing to work with it for better development of strategic cooperative partnership between the tw...

The United States already has a massive nuclear arsenal, including 150 B-61 nukes stored across multiple European countries that can be configured for low-yield options.

Afghan authorities have blamed the attack on the Intercontinental hotel and the ambulance bombing on the Haqqani Network, long thought to be linked to Pakistan's shadowy military establishment.

"Will be planning Infrastructure and discussing Immigration and DACA, not easy when we have no support from the Democrats," Trump wrote on Twitter early Thursday morning, ahead of a scheduled trip to speak later in the day to lawmakers at the retreat in W...

New York City-based photographer and performance artist Ventiko says she bought a ticket for her peacock, Dexter, so he would have his own seat on Sunday's flight from New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport to Los Angeles.

Putin was speaking after the US Treasury released a long-awaited list of Russian officials and business leaders eligible for sanctions under a law designed to punish Moscow for its alleged meddling in the election that brought Donald Trump to power.

The company said it will use its own funds to reimburse about 46.3 billion yen to all 260,000 customers who lost their holdings of NEM, the 10th biggest cryptocurrency by market capitalisation.

Steve Wynn, the 76-year-old former business rival turned political ally of President Donald Trump, had assumed the RNC position after Trump took office in January 2017.

The Haqqanis have frequently been accused of targeting Indian installations in Afghanistan, spurring speculation they were overseen by Pakistani intelligence agencies.