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Italy's David Sassoli, a 63-year-old former journalist, won the absolute majority of ballots he needed at the second round of voting, seeing off German Green Ska Keller, far-left Spaniard Sira Rego and Czech conservative Jan Zahradil.

The death toll in the spinning mill fire climbed to six as rescuers combed through the debris on Wednesday and found three charred bodies in the rubble of fire-ravaged factory, an official was quoted as saying.

In a letter to the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Republican Senators have said robust export control laws are critical to ensuring that sensitive technology does not fall into the hands of those who may use it against the US.

Khan also revealed that the incarcerated former prime minister Sharif's sons tried to secure the release of their father with the help of "two friendly countries."

Jabir Moti, 51, is accused of laundering around $1.4 million to date on behalf of the D Company, headed by Dawood — a key accused in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case.

Albert Sutton's islands are not in the Caribbean or the Pacific. They are a five-minute boat ride across Long Island Sound from New Rochelle, New York, less than an hour north of Manhattan.

Kamala Harris, who joined the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority as a college student, had just resurrected the ghost of segregation and busing against former Vice President Joe Biden in a Democratic presidential debate.

Hong Kong government offices, where protesters smashed computers and spray painted anti-extradition slurs, were closed on Tuesday. Police fired tear gas on protesters earlier as mayhem engulfed the city overnight.

For over 14 years, Washington and Brussels have accused each other of unfairly subsidising aviation giants Boeing and Airbus, respectively, in a dispute that long predates US President Donald Trump's time in office.

New York's first-term Democratic Congresswoman said that women kept in overcrowded cells in a migrant holding facility in El Paso told her they were forced to drink water out of the toilet, and were facing 'psychological warfare'.

Endorsements from the caucus, which counts more than 50 members, could be influential in the Democratic presidential primary. With these two new supporters, Harris now has six endorsements from the CBC.

The International Atomic Energy agency (IAEA) said that its inspectors were verifying whether Iran had accumulated more enriched uranium than allowed.

The Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner, in a statement following an inquest into the London Bridge terror attack 2017, welcomed a ruling that found that the UK's police and investigative authorities had not missed clues that could have helped thwa...

After waiting in international waters for an invitation from Italy or an EU state to accept the ship, captain Carola Rackete decided this week to sail for the southern Italian island of Lampedusa but was blocked by Italian government vessels.

This month's North Atlantic right whale deaths, as well as seven recent calf births, brings the total population of the endangered species to an estimate 412.

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday hinted that any conflict would be waged with air strikes, saying there would be no US boots on the ground.