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Atlantic hurricanes and monsoon floods in India contributed to make 2017 the most costly year on record for severe weather and climate events, the UN's World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) wrote in its annual report on the global climate.

US-born Lynn met her Syrian husband at the University of Michigan. They married and had five children in the United States before moving to his native Ghouta just before 2000 -- the year Bashar al-Assad rose to the presidency.

His role was largely ceremonial given Suu Kyi had awarded herself the title State Counsellor and called the shots within her civilian administration. But he was nonetheless the country's head of state and a key domestic ally for Suu Kyi within her party.

The parliament and the European Commission, the 28-nation EU executive, have already called for an urgent investigation into the scandal.

In the oval office, Trump and the crown prince praised the strength of U.S.-Saudi ties, which had grown strained under the Obama administration in part over differing views toward Riyadh's regional rival, Iran.

Karen McDougal filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against American Media Inc, publisher of the National Enquirer, which paid her $150,000 in 2016 to keep quiet.

Two opinion polls published over the weekend showed Abe's support diving to its lowest since he took office in December 2012, and others showed a majority of Japanese believed he bore some responsibility for the scandal.

Sessions testified before Congress in November 2017 that he "pushed back" against the proposal made by former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos at a March 31, 2016 campaign meeting.

Damian Collins, chair of the House of Commons' Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee, said Zuckerberg or a senior executive from Facebook must provide answers to the committee after a newspaper investigation claimed that Cambridge Analytica,...

The shooter was wounded and taken to a hospital, according to Ventura County fire Capt. Steve Swindle. He said there was no threat to the public.

A former employee at Facebook said he was called into a meeting last year under the guise of a promotion where the investigative team interrogated him.

Abe and Finance Minister Taro Aso, 77, have been under fire since the finance ministry said on Monday that it had altered records relating to a discounted sale of state-owned land to a school operator that had ties to Abe's wife, Akie.

The Washington Times' investigate story also provided specific mohallas and neighbourhoods on the Pakistani side that are being used as safe havens by Taliban terrorists.

Mugabe's media appearance was apparently organised by the new National Patriotic Front (NPF) party which hopes to unseat Mnangagwa's government in polls expected by August. He sent shockwaves through the ZANU-PF ruling party when he recently met with the...

US President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday announced sanctions against Russians accused of trying to influence the 2016 election and of involvement in other separate cyberattacks.

The daily said that Clinton was supposed to be the feminist champion for the aspirations of all American women. "Yet it turns out she really believes that any woman who voted against her must have been a mental or emotional prisoner of some man, trapped i...