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The finder alerted police after stumbling upon the bag near the centre of the western city of Krefeld shortly before midnight on Christmas Eve. Officers were able to quickly identify the owner and reunite him with the backpack and its precious contents.

The attacks come despite relative calm in Yemen, where large-scale combat between government troops -- backed by a Saudi-led military coalition -- and the Iran-aligned Huthi rebels has subsided.

A rescue team in Indonesia's island of Sumatra on Thursday continued the search for a third day to find more bodies after seven new victims were found in a river late on Wednesday.

Pakistan faced huge domestic and international embarrassment after Prime Minister Imran Khan refused to attend the summit in which leaders of Malaysia, Turkey, Iran and Qatar participated.

The crash reportedly happened in the Sabalan mountainous region and rescue teams and three search helicopters were looking for the pilot who was said to have contacted his base following the crash.

Anthony Oluseye Akinyemi, 56, died Saturday after being found unresponsive in his cell at the Worcester County Jail in Snow Hill, Maryland, according to a Monday news release from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that his government has urged Washington to take concrete steps to deliver what has been agreed on with North Korea in Singapore.

Flashmob rallies formed in at least three other locations on Tuesday night with riot police trying to disperse crowds shouting chants and heckling officers.

At the height of the Indo-Pak tensions, China sent its Vice Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou to Pakistan to counsel restraint from Islamabad.

The State Department's own independent Office of Inspector General (OIG) began looking into the well-being of the animals after reports of canine mistreatment surfaced in mid-2017.

The review, conducted over the course of several days on specially designated networks, follows a 'sovereign internet' bill introduced in November in response to what Russia calls the 'aggressive nature' of US national cyber security strategy.

The artwork, named 'Scar of Bethlehem,' depicts the birth of Jesus under Israel's West Bank separation barrier with a bullet hole shaped like a star.

Four cruise missiles were believed to have been launched across the coast through Lebanese airspace towards Syria, a source in the regional alliance supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Reuters.

Donald Trump is accused of withholding USD 400 million in assistance to Ukraine to push Kiev to investigate his political rival Joe Biden.

Earlier on Sunday, more than 1,000 people rallied calmly in support of China's ethnic Uighurs, who have been detained en masse in camps in China's northwestern Xinjiang region.

The hotly contested first round vote signalled the appeal of populism in a Balkan country struggling with an influx of migrants at its borders, an emigration exodus and widespread corruption.