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Army chiefs put military vehicles on the streets of Harare and placed veteran leader Robert Mugabe, 93, under house arrest, before he resigned on Tuesday.

The two governments signed a pact on Thursday settling terms for the repatriation process, and the return of Rohingya to Myanmar is expected to start in two months.

The world's top seven economies, according to the 2017 IMF forecast are — US ($19.4 trillion), China ($11.9 trillion), Japan ($4.9 trillion), Germany ($3.7 trillion), France ($2.575 trillion), UK ($2.565 trillion) and India ($2.4 trillion).

At a summit in Brussels, May met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the leaders of Belgium, Denmark, Lithuania and European Council President Donald Tusk, seeking to move the talks onto future relations between Britain and the EU, especially their trad...

Two London underground stations on Oxford Street — Oxford Circus and Bond Street — have now been reopened after being shut over reports of shots being fired.

Myanmar is seeking to ease international pressure by striking an initial agreement on returns, while Dhaka wants to ensure overstretched refugee camps that have mushroomed in the Cox's Bazar region don't become permanent.

Data earlier this month showed only four of 28 northern Chinese cities met their air quality targets in October and air quality in 338 Chinese cities worsened in October.

The Trump Organisation said Wednesday that it is ending its licensing deal with the New York hotel amid reports that the property has struggled to attract business.

The army seized power a week ago and there have been mass protests against Robert Mugabe and calls to resign from many sides including on Tuesday from the ruling party's favourite to succeed him Emmerson Mnangagwa.

"Should have happened a long time ago. Should have happened years ago," Trump declared, announcing the designation at the start of a White House cabinet meeting.

North Korean women are deprived of education and job opportunities and are often subjected to violence at home and sexual assault in the workplace, a United Nations human rights panel said on Monday.

Mugabe, the only leader Zimbabwe has known since independence from Britain in 1980, was replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa, the deputy he sacked this month, a senior party official told a news conference.

Zimbabwean army chief General Constantino Chiwenga’s meeting with Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan has set off speculation that Beijing had prior knowledge of the coup.

It was followed by 5-magnitude earthquake at 8:31 a.m (Beijing time) around the same place in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Several lawyers have said that it would be difficult to win a conviction against Bush, who has vascular parkinsonism, a rare syndrome that mimics Parkinson's disease.

President Robert Mugabe is insisting he remains Zimbabwe's only legitimate ruler and is refusing to quit after a military coup, but pressure is mounting on the 93-year-old former guerrilla to accept offers of a graceful exit, sources said on Thursday.