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The former independence hero, president and prime minister is set to return to power after a second general election to break a parliamentary stalemate.

A Pakistani court determined that the United States official does not have full diplomatic status and thus does not have immunity from prosecution.

Last September, hunters found human remains in a remote part of eastern Washington. After DNA analysis, the local sheriff said they were Lindsey's.

The 1937 marriage of Wallis Simpson and the abdicated King Edward VIII sparked religious controversy and royal scandal. On the eve of the May 19th royal wedding, Fairfax looks back at the marriage that shocked Great Britain.

There was an explosion at Surabaya police headquarters after an apparent vehicle attack, local police say.

Yet another fissure has opened on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, spewing rocks and magma and threatening more homes, although some residents are staying put.

The first African-American to preside over the Episcopal Church will deliver a sermon at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

Neighbours of the family suspected of the trio of church suicide bombings in Indonesia said the suspects showed no signs of radicalisation.

Early results from the Iraq elections suggest the anti-US Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr could be pivotal in deciding who is the country's next prime minister.

Two Britons and their Congolese driver held hostage in Democratic Republic of Congo have been released, Virunga National Park said on Sunday.

An acrimonious battle in New Jersey over plans to move a waterfront statue commemorating the 1940 massacre of Poles has ended.

A suspected explosive device was discovered on Sunday in a mosque near the South African port city of Durban, police said.

The welcome US decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem is an appropriately symbolic way to mark Israel's 70th anniversary.

Think Australia is immune from the rise of strong man leaders? Think again.

Many Trump aides say they are confident the President will be exonerated, but they privately express worries more figures in his orbit could be ensnared.

Israeli soldiers killed scores of Palestinians demonstrating along the border fence in the bloodiest day of protests in years.

Due to give birth on June 17, New Zealand's Prime Minister says there's nothing "unprecedented" about the acting PM taking the reins. 

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The ban by the US on Chinese telecommunications company ZTE, then Donald Trump's reversal, will prompt China to build its own microchip industry.

Most of the deaths occurred on Sunday when winds and falling trees caused buildings to collapse, leaving people buried in the wreckage.

The opening of the new embassy follows US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a move that has raised Middle-East tensions

Jacinda Ardern has also criticised what she says is a "devastating, one-sided loss of life" on the Gaza border.

A gunman approached a group of children and their mothers outside a school in Brazil. Little did he know, one was an off-duty cop.

The most intense campaigning is not taking place on the streets, it's happening on WhatsApp, a Facebook service with about 250 million users.