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The former president of Maldives said his country, amidst claims of huge investment by Beijing, is undertaking an assessment of assets created through debt funding from China.

The suspects may have been planning to sell the skin to a foreign collector, while its bones were earlier sold, possibly for use in medicinal products popular in some parts of Asia.

Vast crowds of black-clad demonstrators thronged the streets of the Asian financial hub on Sunday, in the largest anti-government rally since local elections last month.

North Korea's state media reported that it had carried out a 'very important' test at its Sohae satellite launch site, a rocket-testing ground that US officials once said North Korea had promised to close.

Donald Trump also highlighted his decision earlier this year to reverse more than a half-century of US policy in the Middle East by recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, the strategic highlands on the border with Syria.

Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer will donate their prize money to the Weiss Fund that supports research by undergraduates, graduate students and junior and senior faculty across several notable institutes.

In its first-ever resolution on a West Bank annexation, the House said the United States should 'discourage steps by either side that would put a peaceful end to the conflict further out of reach.

The ADB's quick dispersing special policy-based loan is part of a multi-donor economic reform programme led by the IMF to stabilise Pakistan's economy after a major deterioration in its fiscal position in 2018.

Iran Brian Hook said a US warship conducted a flag verification boarding in international waters off the coast of Yemen and interdicted a significant hoard of weapons and missile parts, evidently of Iranian origin.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered the historic announcement as Democrats push toward a vote, possibly by Christmas. She said she was authorising the drafting of articles of impeachment “sadly but with confidence and humility”.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered that those who did not participate in the unrest over sudden hike in petrol prices be given the status of martyrs and ordered that families of those killed in clashes with security forces will be shown Islamic clemency.

In a separate statement, Senator Jim Risch, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that China's illegal detainment of at least a million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in prison camps is atrocious and inexcusable.

Mike Pompeo announced that the United States would appoint an ambassador to Khartoum, subject to Senate confirmation, and that Sudan would restore full-level representation in Washington.

The Indian Embassy in Sudan in a statement said that that there are several casualties and injuries including among Indian workers. Over 50 Indian workers were working in the factory.

Officers first entered the campus on November 29, when they collected thousands of petrol bombs, which they dusted for fingerprints, as well as bows and arrows and bottles of chemicals.

Trump demanded that Europe pay more for its collective defence and questioned whether the US military should defend countries that were 'delinquent' on alliance targets for national military spending.