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The Seoul Central District Court was delivering its verdict on charges against Lee, 49, ranging from bribery to perjury in a scandal that led to the ouster in March of the then president, Park Geun-hye.

The execution was Florida's first since the US Supreme Court halted the practice in the state after finding its method for sentencing people to death to be unconstitutional.

Icahn said in a letter to Trump released Friday that he would resign to prevent "partisan bickering" about his role that Democrats suggested could benefit him financially.

John Rees-Evans, a candidate to lead the UK Independence Party (UKIP), made a specific reference to Indians and Tanzanians in relation to a so-called "fast track export-import scheme" of offering up to 9,000 pounds to certain Commonwealth migrants to leav...

Eight hours after a deadly attack on Thursday afternoon that left 13 people dead in Barcelona, an Audi A3 car rammed into pedestrians in Cambrils, 120 km south of Barcelona.

Police are still hunting for 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub without confirming reports he was the driver who smashed a van into people on Barcelona's busy Las Ramblas boulevard on Thursday.

Celebrations are planned nationwide, including weddings timed to coincide with the eclipse and a live Caribbean cruise ship performance of the 1983 hit Total Eclipse of the Heart by the singer herself, Bonnie Tyler.

The UN estimates there are up to 25,000 civilians trapped inside Raqa, the jihadist group's erstwhile de facto Syrian capital.

According to the Chinese foreign ministry's website, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a phone conversation with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, that the two countries should work together to contain tensions and permit no one to "stir up an incide...

Several concerned listeners were reported to have called police after the stations triggered the Emergency Alert Broadcast System, issuing "a civil danger" warning at 12.25 am that was later confirmed to be a mistake.

Australia does not allow dual citizens to sit in parliament, meaning Barnaby Joyce's revelation that he possibly holds New Zealand citizenship has major implications for the government.

"Once you talked to James for a while, you would start to see that sympathy towards Nazism, that idolization of Hitler, that belief in white supremacy," Weimer said. "It would start to creep out."

Muslim leaders consider recent incidents of hate crime a part of a deeply alarming trend that came to the forefront in last year's presidential election and hope these "ask me anything" sessions can help end extremism.

The vehicle took off after the incident, at about 8:00 AM (1130 IST) in the northwestern suburb of Levallois-Perret.

The China Earthquake Administration has activated level-I emergency response procedures following the earthquake.

The conservative government decided on Monday to hold a non-compulsory postal vote on whether to allow same-sex couples to marry, if a second attempt to win parliamentary support for a compulsory national ballot fails.