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Sri Lanka's Port Authority (SLPA) said that around 70 per cent of Colombo Port's transshipment business is India related while Japan had cooperated since the 1980s to develop the port's container terminals.

The rhino, named Tam, was about 30 years old and lived at a wildlife reserve in Sabah state on Borneo island since his capture in 2008.

North Korea's state-run news agency issued a stinging attack last week on Biden, who has been critical of the isolated state.

The populist party, founded just three months ago, capitalised on public anger over delays to Britain's exit from the European Union.

Brazil has the world's third largest prison population, with 726,712 inmates as of June 2016, according to official statistics.

If the no-confidence motion succeeds Kurz will be the first chancellor in post-war Austrian history to be removed in this fashion.

The Saudi air force intercepted and destroyed the drone that targeted Jizan airport, close to the southern border with Yemen

Negotiations have broken down over legislation aimed at requiring ultra-Orthodox Jews to perform mandatory military service like other Jewish Israelis.

Captured in Syria by a US-backed force fighting the jihadists, they are the first French IS members to receive death sentences in Iraq, where they were transferred for trial.

More than 400 million people are eligible to elect 751 members of the European Parliament with the first official results to be announced late Sunday once voting in all EU countries is over.

The pope, an ardent supporter of Buenos Aires club San Lorenzo, called on parents to pass on this mentality to their children.

The US has blacklisted smartphone and telecommunications company Huawei over worries that China uses it as a tool for espionage, while Beijing has accused Washington of 'bullying' the firm.

MPs from the African National Congress, which won 230 out of 400 seats on May 8, choose the head of state in the parliament's first post-election sitting.

Two of three major state-owned carriers Air China Ltd. and China Southern Airlines Ltd. said Wednesday they want compensation for their aircraft being grounded.

Ambassador Cui Tiankai also slammed as 'politically motivated' the White House's move to ban the transfer or sale of US technology to Chinese telcom giant Huawei.

"A Katyusha rocket fell in the middle of the Green Zone without causing any losses," the military said in a statement, adding it landed near the Monument of the Unknown Soldier.