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A group calling itself the Koala Relocation Society said koalas were 'functionally extinct in Australia' but could thrive in New Zealand which has nearly 30,000 hectares planted in eucalypts.

44-year-old Maezawa, who sold his online fashion retailer Zozo Inc to SoftBank Group Corp, is seeking single females aged over 20 for the show, which will be shown on streaming service AbemaTV.

Government seismologists recorded magma moving towards the crater of Taal, one of the country's most active volcanoes located 65 kilometres (40 miles) south of Manila.

Ambassador Rob Macaire was arrested for allegedly "inciting" protesters in Tehran angry at the military's accidental downing of a Ukranian passenger jet, killing 176 people, most of them Iranian citizens.

The decision is a major blow to the program since Texas is the largest recipient of refugees in the United States.

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed accepted the prize in December for making peace with longtime rival Eritrea and other reforms. Abiy's office did not comment Friday.

The countries are due to convene on January 13 in Washington with the aim of resolving their disagreements by January 15 over the filling and operation of the $4 billion hydroelectric dam that Ethiopia is building on the Nile.

If a doomed Ukrainian passenger plane was shot down in Iran on Wednesday, as American officials believe, it would join a long list of civilian aircraft brought down by fire.

The President made his comments shortly after the Democratic-controlled House approved a resolution asserting that Trump must seek approval from Congress before engaging in further military action against Iran.

Nissan ex-chairman Carlos Ghosn faced four charges of financial misconduct in Japan, which he alleges were cooked up by disgruntled executives at Nissan in collusion with Japanese prosecutors.

The Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737-800, flying to Kiev and carrying mostly Iranians and Iranian-Canadians, crashed shortly after taking off on Wednesday from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport.

The shock announcement that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will be stepping back from being senior royals confirmed fears that she was struggling to cope with royal life, especially since the birth of their son Archie in May.

Canada has one of the world’s largest shares of the Iranian diaspora; 210,000 people who identify as Iranian live in the country, and many of them fled their homeland after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The state-run Kuwait News Agency tweeted that the Kuwaiti defence minister had been informed that US forces in the emirate will be withdrawn from the Arifjan base within three days. KUNA also said it had been hacked and noted that the report was not publi...

The winning debut work follows eleven-year-old Asha, who is empowered with spiritual connections to her grandmother as she journeys through the wild and dangerous Himalayas with her best friend Jeevan.

Iranian search and rescue teams earlier found the black boxes from the Ukrainian airliner that crashed soon after takeoff from Tehran's main airport.