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The bill played to the party's disparate factions by letting insurers sell cheap, bare-bones policies while retaining taxes on the wealthy.

Navalny, a 41-year-old lawyer who has organised the biggest anti-Kremlin protests in years, hopes to run against Putin in a presidential election in March.

Customs administration spokesman Huang Songping said exports to the hermit nation rose 29.1 per cent in the first six months of the year, although imports were down 13.2 per cent.

Mongolian property tycoon and martial arts expert Khaltmaa Battulga has been sworn in as the new president of the country on Monday.

A growing chorus of voices denouncing sexist culture is echoing through male-dominated Silicon Valley, knocking a number of internet industry executives from their perches.

Emmanuel Macron's penchant for using regal symbols to give his presidency a touch of majesty will be on display on Monday when France's new leader addresses both houses of parliament in the splendour of Versailles.

The passage of a US warship close to a disputed island in the South China Sea was a "serious political and military provocation", Beijing said, one that could further strain relations between the superpowers.

President Donald Trump may accuse Qatar of sponsoring terrorism, but that did not stop the wealthy emirate this week from lighting up the Empire State building in the national colors of the Middle Eastern nation.

The blackout was the first experienced in Costa Rica, among the most developed countries in Latin America, since 2001.

Philippine Troops are fighting against Islamist terrorists to retake Marawi city, where terrorists loyal to Islamic State launched a lightning strike on May 23.

China issued new regulations on Friday around online video content, directing streaming platforms to eliminate a range of programs in yet another tightening of controls on the Chinese Internet.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday chaired a high-level meeting of top foreign policy officials to discuss ties with India amid tension with over ceasefire violations in Kashmir.

US President Donald Trump will have a first face-to-face meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Germany next week on the sidelines of the G-20 leadership summit, the White House said on Thursday.

The attack on April 4 in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in northern Idlib province was the most deadly in Syria's civil war in more than three years

Mattis however refused to give a firm number for how many troops US President Donald Trump would commit under a new strategy, just two years after NATO officially ended its post-9/11 combat role in Afghanistan

Donald Trump unleashed a brutal personal attack Thursday on respected female television host Mika Brzezinski in the latest, stunning salvo in the president's ongoing war with the media.