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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who is facing federal investigations into his travel, political activity and potential conflicts of interest, will leave the administration at year's end, President Donald Trump said on Saturday.

The activists were instrumental in persuading Lorde to cancel a Tel Aviv show, leading to legal action on behalf of distraught fans.

Three teenagers and a 20-year-old man were shot and wounded on Friday outside a Portland, Oregon, high school when a gunman thought to have gang ties opened fire following a dispute.

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As a US federal appeals court readies to hear her groundbreaking case, once obscure actress Cindy Lee Garcia faces some tough resistance: death threats from around the Muslim world and the wrath of the planet's most powerful internet companies.

The number of child soldiers recruited by armed groups in the Central African Republic have quadrupled since the outbreak of a bloody civil war two years ago.

Clash between protestors and police in Linshui in western Sichuan resulted in hundreds of injuries.

Even by the standards of the Trump administration, the Scaramucci era was brief to the point of abrupt.

Desperate mother sends autistic infant to clinic that uses tough exercise regimes to treat illness.

More than 100 institutions controlling almost $1.1 trillion in funds worldwide have opted to make new divestments of at least some of their fossil fuel assets in the 10 weeks running up to the Paris climate summit, two campaign groups say.

After long relying on manufacturing, commodities and the informal economy, Indonesia is entering a world of technology-driven retail.

It makes little practical difference but US labeling of ISIS as genocidal is important symbolically.

Australia is to be invited to join a global, multi-billion-dollar fight against superbugs which are predicted to kill more people than cancer if left unchecked.

Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, appealed for the Palestinians to consider an economic support plan they have already rejected.

US federal agents have since seized the cars along with $US2 million from his bank account.

A coalition of 16 American states argues the US President's decision to build a wall through an emergency declaration is unconstitutional.

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Thirty-six people are dead after Russia's worst coal mining accident in years, with authorities saying Sunday that they have abandoned rescue efforts in the northern town of Vorkuta.

A lone gunman cause the US Capitol to go into lockdown before being shot by police at a popular visitor centre.

The US Justice Department has said it successfully accessed data stored on an encrypted iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters and asked a court to withdraw an order compelling Apple to assist, according to a court filing.

As Pakistan begins to bury the dead after militants rampaged through an army-run school in Peshawar, killing more than 130 children images of the assailants have emerged, along with a warning of more slaughter to come from the Pakistani Taliban.

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali, who has suffered from Parkinson's Disease for three decades, was in a stable condition after being hospitalised with a "mild" case of pneumonia, his spokesman said on Saturday.

US President Donald Trump says the latest round of UN sanctions on North Korea are only a very small step.

The Trump administration should respond to these recent attacks with strikes of its own on Iranian and Houthi air-defence assets, offensive missile systems and Revolutionary Guard Corps bases.