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Fired US Attorney Preet Bharara was investigating a key member of President Donald Trumps cabinet, a new report has revealed.

The family of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott says he has died at his home in St Lucia. He was 87.

The White House on Friday said President Donald Trump intends to nominate top Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan to become deputy defense secretary.

The Teesta water-sharing agreement has been in talks since the Hasina-led Awami League government returned to power in 2009. Hasina had earlier criticised Banarjee for her "unfortunate" stance against the water sharing deal.

A trial for the blogger who is accused of inciting religious hatred for playing "Pokemon Go" in a church has begun in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.

Iraqi government forces launched the offensive to liberate western Mosul on February 19 after declaring the full control of eastern Mosul late January.

"They are temporary forces," coalition spokesman US Colonel John Dorrian told reporters in Baghdad, adding the long-term authorised level of American troops in Syria would remain at 500.

FBI Director James Comey warned that Americans should not have expectations of "absolute privacy" after the disclosure of a range of hacking tools used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Hungary's parliament approved Tuesday the systematic detention of all asylum-seekers in container camps, in a move that Prime Minister Viktor Orban said will make all of Europe safer from terror attacks.

Malaysian police sealed off the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur to ascertain the number of officials inside, the deputy home minister said on Tuesday, as tensions escalated over the killing of the North Korean leader's estranged half-brother.

Iraq welcomed its removal from a revised US travel ban on Monday, calling it a "positive message" at a time when American and Iraqi forces are battling the Islamic State group.

The U.S. Marine Corps is looking into the suspected distribution of nude photographs of female members of the service among military personnel and veterans via a social media network that promotes sexual violence, the Marine Corps Times said on Sunday.

Twin Islamic State group suicide attacks killed 15 people on Sunday in Syria's northern province of Aleppo, where the jihadists have faced simultaneous assaults in recent weeks, a monitor said.

Malaysia expelled North Korea's ambassador on Saturday, giving him 48 hours to leave the country as a diplomatic row deepened over the assassination of the half-brother of Pyongyang's leader.

The United Nations special envoy for Syria concluded on Saturday a marathon of "tough but constructive" talks in Geneva with an agreement from the conflicting parties to pursue further talks on a political transition to end the six-year war.

An 88-year-old Pennsylvania woman says she talked an attacker out of raping her by lying to him that she was HIV-positive.