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Fereidoun's trial began in February, and he's been free on bail since spending a night in prison in 2017.

The row over the teacher's wage freeze comes ahead of European Parliament elections in Portugal on May 26, and a general election slated for October 6.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is currently on an official trip to London, issued directives asking all public and private organisations to work in a well-coordinated way to face the cyclone.

Police in Upper Austria said they were called to a restaurant in Bad Schallerbach, about 200 kilometres (125 miles) from Vienna late Wednesday, when the owner went berserk.

Since the start of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, more than 77 million people have become infected with HIV.

The State Department last week had said in a revised travel advisory that 'terrorist groups' were continuing to plot possible attacks in Sri Lanka after more than 250 people were killed and about 500 wounded in blasts in churches and luxury hotels on Apri...

US District Judge John Walter said he was bound by Spanish law in the nearly two-decade fight between heirs of Lilly Cassirer and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (TBC) over the Paris street scene painted by Pissarro in 1897.

The French government said it remains mobilised at all levels and all fora to take effective measures against terrorism and welcomes the step banning Asood Mazhar.

Assange, who was dragged out of the embassy last month and charged by the United States for one of the biggest ever leaks of classified information, was convicted last month of skipping bail in 2012.

Haiti, one of the world's poorest countries, witnessed widespread riots in February when thousands of people took to the streets demanding better living conditions.

The police chief in Sri Lanka can only be removed through a parliamentary procedure and Sirisena's action suspending him is the first step towards that, the officials said.

Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said a man approached a crowd on foot and began firing in what he called 'a very tragic, very cowardly shooting.'

Tensions between Tehran and Washington have risen since the Trump administration withdrew last year from a 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran and began ratcheting up sanctions.

As per the marriage rules for expatriates in UAE, a Muslim man can marry a non-Muslim woman but a Muslim woman cannot marry a non-Muslim man.

The National Audit Office has linked the crisis involving about 36,000 student visa cancellations with the Windrush scandal, in which thousands of Commonwealth migrants were wrongly denied their British citizenship rights.

The forum in which 37 heads of the state and governments took part concluded with an announcement by Chinese President Xi Jinping that cooperation agreements worth USD 64 billion were signed at a CEO conference during the Belt and Road Forum (BRF) meeting...