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Lebanon's Rafik alHariri was assassinated in 2005. Here are some details about him, his death, and its impact ahead of a verdict by a U.N. backed tribunal on Friday:

Japan would need to respond if South Korea seizes Japanese assets over wartime forced labour disputes, Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso said on Tuesday, describing such a move as being in breach of international law.

The Indianapolis-based drugmaker said it dosed the first participant in the placebo-controlled trial at a nursing home in Illinois.

During Monday's meeting, Oli was accompanied by his close confidante Subash Nembang, who has been working as a mediator to resolve the differences between the factions. Prachanda was accompanied by former PM Jhala Nath Khanal.

Greece will make maskwearing compulsory on the decks of ferries sailing to its islands, extending the requirement beyond interior spaces after a recent spike in coronavirus infections, the government's spokesman said on Monday.

Serbia has bought a new generation of mediumrange, radarguided surfacetoair missiles from China in a new sign of deepening cooperation between Beijing and Belgrade.

Australia's secondmost populous state Victoria entered its first full day under stricter lockdown measures on Monday, after declaring a state of disaster and imposing a nightly curfew in the state capital Melbourne, to fight a resurgent COVID19.

The Rajapaksa clan is gunning for two-third majority in August 5 elections, giving it the numbers to repeal the 19th Amendment of the constitution which limits presidential powers relative to Parliament and Judiciary.

Women and children slept in the open amid heavy rainfall, without shelter or clean water, after flooding inundated hundreds of homes in Sudans Blue Nile province, which borders Ethiopia.

China reported 49 cases of the new coronavirus in the mainland for Aug. 1, up from 45 cases a day earlier, the health commission said on Sunday.

A dispute between Moscow and Minsk over the detention of more than 30 men who Belarus accused of being Russian mercenaries deepened on Saturday, as the two sides contradicted each other about the group's plans.

President Donald Trump says he wants to take action to ban TikTok, a popular Chineseowned video app that has been a source of national security and censorship concerns.

The top Democrats in Congress are "not close yet" on reaching a deal with the White House to pump more money into the U.S. economy to ease the coronavirus' heavy toll, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters on Saturday, after an essential lif...

Iran said on Saturday that its intelligence forces have detained a U.S.based leader of a promonarchist group whom it accused of being behind a 2008 bombing that killed 14, and of planning more attacks.

Vietnam's health ministry on Saturday reported 40 new coronavirus cases, taking total infections in the country to 586, with three deaths.