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BEIJING, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Saturday extended condolences to Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail over the terror attack that occurred Friday in Minya, Egypt.
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As of Sunday, a total of 206,520 individuals have been forced into displacement as a result of the ongoing Mosul operations which began on Oct.17, 2016, a tracking system developed by the International Organization for Migrants (IOM) showed.
Suspect not expected to appear in Kowloon City Court in person when case is mentioned on Monday
A man is in custody after a car intentionally hit several pedestrians in Melbourne's CBD, killing three people and leaving up to 20 with serious injuries.
The Australian outback township of Bourke in New South Wales state is on track to break the state's record for 22 consecutive days above 40 degrees Celsius as the country's scorching heatwave continues Friday.
An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale jolted East Nusa Tenggara of central Indonesia early Friday, but it was not potential for tsunami, the meteorology and geophysics agency said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday that Turkish air strikes in northern Syria had killed 88 civilians since early on Thursday, including 24 children.
Australia remained on alert over the holiday period after authorities arrested seven people on Friday allegedly planning a Christmas Day terror attack.
President Park Geun-hye will make her case to the Consitutional Court on Friday in a written statement addressing a series of charges cited in the parliamentary impeachment motion via her legal representatives, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said on Friday that he will not seek re-election for the next chief executive in 2017.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is due to hand in his resignation on Friday, a parliamentary source said on Wednesday, after a pummeling loss in a national referendum on his flagship reform at the weekend.
A digital marketing research group has recorded online sales at a record high of 3.34 billion U.S. dollars during the Black Friday shopping spree in the United States.
U.S. online sales surged on Black Friday, with Amazon.com Inc offering the steepest discounts among e-commerce sites as it set the agenda for what has traditionally been the biggest shopping day of the year for brick-and-mortar retailers.
Move by stores to offer holiday discounts earlier in November is a strategy that seems to be paying off