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Auto plants and steel mills in United States are shutting down, companies are announcing layoffs and furloughs and factory output is in the red.

Elephants are Thailand's national animal and live in the wild in parts of the country, but their numbers have dwindled to only a few thousand.

The judge delivered a courtroom plea for a cleaner justice system and recited a legal oath in front of the former Thai king's portrait, before shooting himself in the chest.

A Taliban official offered few details of Friday's meeting between Khalilzad and the Taliban delegation led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a co-founder of the movement that was ousted in 2001 by the US-led coalition.

Microsoft saw "significant" cyber activity by the group that also targeted US government officials, journalists covering global politics and prominent Iranians living outside Iran.

The remarkable pledge to the Chinese leader is a dramatic departure from decades of US support for human rights in China and shows just how eager Trump is to strike a deal with Beijing as the trade war weighs on the US economy.

Thunberg rose to prominence as the instigator and leader of the global climate strikes, warning youngsters about enrolment in armed groups and promoting the role of children in peace and sustainable development efforts.

The Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives is probing whether Trump abused his office by pressuring Ukraine to investigate his 2020 presidential election rival Joe Biden.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) did not detail what the questions related to but said it was "discussing substance" with the Iranians.

12 boxes of lion bones wrapped in aluminium foil, weighing 342 kg were discovered from crates that were destined for Malaysia.

Doctors who conducted the trial cautioned that the device is years away from being publicly available but stressed that it had 'the potential to improve patients' quality of life and autonomy'.

About USD 4.4 billion of wooden cabinets and vanities imported from China will face additional duties because they are being dumped on the American market at less than fair value.

A human rights advocacy group took issue with the expert assessment conducted after the shaman was detained last month, suggesting it was not possible to reliably assess his mental capacity in a short period of time.

Washington announced it would put a 10% tariff on large civil aircraft imported from the four European partners of Airbus -- Germany, France, Spain and the UK -- after Wednesday's World Trade Organization (WTO) decision that ruled the company received und...

The back-and-forth came as Trump, first in a series of tweets and then at a news conference, angrily denounced an impeachment inquiry concerning a July call in which Trump asked Ukraine's president to investigate Biden and his son Hunter.

The stalemate has even raised the risk that the new parliament's term will be extremely short since it could cause yet another election. It would be the third in the space of a year after April polls too ended inconclusively.