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Japanese prosecutors re-arrested Nissan Motor Co Ltd's ousted chairman Carlos Ghosn on Friday on fresh allegations of making Nissan shoulder $16.6 million in personal investment losses, dashing chances he would be released on bail imminently.

The move will have extraordinary geopolitical ramifications and throws into question the fate of US-backed Kurdish fighters who have been tackling Islamic State jihadists.

Under local law, any Thai citizen is permitted to file defamation charges on behalf of another person, and convictions can carry prison sentences of up to two years. A few dare to criticise the institution for fear of running afoul of strict royal insult...

China's government is forcing some of its 1 million minorities detained in its internment camps, to make sportswear for US businesses, AP reports. Most of the Uighurs and Kazakhs interviewed in exile, also said that even people with professional jobs were...

Twitter observed a large amount of traffic to the customer support site coming from individual internet IP addresses in China and Saudi Arabia. "While we cannot confirm intent or attribution for certain, it is possible that some of these IP addresses may...

Prime Minister Theresa May will on Monday warn MPs against supporting a second referendum, saying it would do "irreparable damage" to British politics.

The premier, for his part, stayed silent on Canberra's move at a weekly Israeli cabinet meeting that is usually his opportunity to hold forth in public on major diplomatic developments.

The White House said it expects the case to be appealed to the Supreme Court. "Pending the appeal process, the law remains in place," it said in a statement.

The UN agencies for refugees (UNHCR) and migration (IOM) announced the estimates as they unveiled their response plan to the largest displacement of people in Latin America's recent history.

US President Donald Trump himself likes to feed the drama, dropping hints about the number of candidates in the running and bantering with journalists about who wants the job.

The president was told by advisers that Meng's arrest in Canada was a Justice Department matter and that the White House should stay out of it for now, the Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.

Prime Minister Imran Khan's remarks came in a message on the Human Rights Day which is observed every year on December 10.

A source, who has read a translated transcript, said it was clear that the killing on October 2 was no botched rendition attempt, but the execution of a premeditated plan to murder the journalist.

A transcript released on Saturday shows he strongly defended his investigators against Republican charges of bias against Trump and in favor of Democrat Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election.

The predictions are based on the report by the "Commission on the Future of Surgery" set up by the Royal College of Surgeons in 2017.

Last year, Trump withdrew the US from the landmark international Paris Agreement, which was also signed by India, on attempting to bring down global temperatures.