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The Senate late Wednesday passed legislation extending for five years the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, and advancing the bill to the White House for Trump's signature. The House passed an identical measure in mid-November.

Sri Lanka has been in a crisis since Sirisena replaced Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe with Mahinda Rajapaksa last month, and then issued an order dissolving parliament and called for a general election.

Environmental groups decried Adani's decision and called on the government to step in and block it.

The country's de facto ruler has brushed aside the international pressure, attempting to use the overseas visits — followed by a whirlwind domestic tour — to shore up his tarnished reputation and reinforce relationships with allies.

Lu Guang, a three-time World Press Photo award winner, had been invited to take part in photography events in the regional capital, Urumqi, in late October, his wife, Xu Xiaoli, said.

US President Trump said it seemed like a "great deal" for the European Union that could block Britain from forging its own trade agreements with the United States.

Factories and coal mines have shut down, sending shockwaves through the local economy. The migrants have drifted away, and jobs are hard to find even for locals.

Manafort said in the same filing on Monday that he disagreed with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's assertion that he had lied, but both sides agreed the court should move ahead and sentence him for his crimes.

US senator Bernie Sanders said he still believes his ideas are best for the nation, but is not openly campaigning for the nomination.

Now the deal must be approved by the UK Parliament, where no party has a majority and lawmakers range from burn-the-bridges Brexiteers to reconciliation-seeking supporters of the EU.

Russia fired on and then seized three Ukrainian ships on Sunday, accusing them of illegally entering its waters in the Sea of Azov, in a dramatic spike in tensions that raises fears of a wider escalation.

The Trump Administration announced this major reward (of more than Rs 35 crores) on the 10th anniversary of the terror attack in which 10-Pakistan based LeT terrorist went on a shooting rampage in Mumbai.

The US allegations are the latest salvo against Iran from the administration of President Donald Trump, who earlier this year pulled out of a landmark 2015 nuclear deal between major powers and Tehran and reimposed crippling unilateral sanctions.

Scientists announced the surprising discovery in Poland of fossils of a four-legged beast called Lisowicia bojani that demonstrated that dinosaurs were not the only behemoths on Earth at that time and that the group of mammal-like reptiles to which Lisowi...

Many troops are missing, the sources said. One soldier said more troops were killed on Tuesday when an attempt to recover bodies from the initial attack was ambushed.

Trump offered holiday wishes in the teleconference with service members from Afghanistan to the Pacific, peppering them with questions about their respective missions.