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About two dozen Facebook accounts were created to conduct surveillance on Macron campaign officials and others close to the centrist former financier as he sought to defeat far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen and other opponents in the two-round election,...

Thailand's first female PM, whose government was toppled in a 2014 coup, is already facing up to a decade in jail for allegedly failing to stop graft in the subsidy programme that targeted her party's rural farming base.

Goldsmith said the injunction provides detainees time to challenge their removal in federal courts.

The stunt evokes the 1991 film "Point Break" starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, in which a gang of surfers don masks of ex-US presidents while robbing banks.

Trump has had a complicated relationship with the Republican Party, but GOP lawmakers have continued to be generally supportive of the president, even as his approval ratings slip.

The Saudi king ordered Mohammed bin Nayef to step aside in favour of the king's favourite son, Mohammed bin Salman. The reason: an addiction to painkilling drugs was clouding Nayef's judgment.

Although Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is yet to declare he will run in the June election, only two people have aired the idea of challenging him and even they say Sisi is likely to win, aided by a crackdown on his opponents that is gathering pace.

Improving and strengthening ties with India has been a national security and foreign policy priority of every US president since Bill Clinton, which continued with his successors George W Bush and Barack Obama.

Pakistan has long denied Islamic State has a foothold inside the nuclear-armed nation despite a series of attacks claimed by the group over the past two years, including a bombing in the northern town of Parachinar last month that killed 75.

Emmerson said that he heard "distressing stories" which included asphyxiation using plastic bags drenched in kerosene, pulling out of fingernails, insertion of needles beneath fingernails, various forms of water torture, suspension of individuals for seve...

"I was told that my visa application was incorrectly filled in ... because I did not have an invitation from the person I was visiting," Berit Reiss-Andersen told Reuters.

The Gene therapy, developed by the University of Pennsylvania and Novartis Corp, could be the first of a wave of treatments custom-made to target a patient's cancer.

Sharif’s hold on the PM post is becoming increasingly untenable and opposition parties have increased the pressure on him to step down.

The death of Baghdadi would be one of the biggest blows yet to the jihadist group, which is trying to defend shrinking territory in Syria and Iraq.

The South African Communist Party (SACP), which has been increasingly critical of President Jacob Zuma's corruption-tainted leadership, banned Zuma from addressing its congress this week.

The test sparked global alarm as it suggested North Korea now possessed an ICBM capable of reaching Alaska, a major milestone for the reclusive, nuclear-armed state.