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Abe's Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition retained its two-thirds "super majority" in parliament's lower house in the October 22 election

Iranian officials did not respond to a request for comment to discuss their decision to avoid the conference.

The moves will be made during the country's annual meeting of parliament early next year, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the party's anti-graft watchdog, said in its report to a five-yearly party congress last week.

Executed with his wife and children by the Bolsheviks in 1918, the last Russian tsar Nicholas II was rehabilitated and buried in Saint-Petersburg in 1998 and canonised in 2000 by the Orthodox Church.

The crew were from HMS Vigilant, one of four Royal Navy submarines which operate the Trident nuclear missile system.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to propose the idea to US President Donald Trump on November 6 when they plan to hold a summit meeting, said the Nikkei on Thursday.

Deposed Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif is currently in London with his wife Kalsum as she undergoes cancer treatment.

Iran has frozen the assets of BBC Persian staff, meaning they cannot inherit family assets and preventing them and their families from selling assets, such as property or cars, in Iran.

Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence both joined the House GOP conference call in which Trump called on members to adopt the budget passed by the Senate this week, so that they can move on to passing his tax reform plan.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un has threatened to "sink" Japan into the sea and blasted two missiles over the northern island of Hokkaido in the space of less than a month.

The typhoon, classified as an intense Category 4 storm by the Tropical Storm Risk monitoring site, was south of Japan and moving northeast at 40 kph on Sunday afternoon, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.

Carter, a Democrat who was president from 1977 to 1981, said he had spoken to Trump's National Security Adviser Lt.-Gen. H. R. McMaster, who is a friend, but so far has gotten a negative response.

Betting on his anti-euro, anti-migrant and anti-corruption ticket, ANO (Yes) movement chief Andrej Babis topped opinion polls ahead of the ballot that ends Saturday afternoon.

The day after Trump spoke, the head of the Guards' al Quds overseas operations, Major General Qassem Soleimani, travelled to Iraq's Kurdistan region. He held talks about the escalating crisis between Kurdish authorities and the Iraqi government after a Ku...

EU leaders gathering for a summit in Brussels closed ranks behind Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, saying the standoff over Catalonia's independence drive must be settled within the provisions of Spain's constitution.

Here are five points about this so-called "nuclear option", which opens the way for Madrid to suspend some or all of the region's autonomy in Spain's worst political crisis in decades.