Australia's hardline approach to asylum seekers includes turning away refugees arriving by boat and offshore detention. Both measures have been condemned by the UN previously.
Maithripala Sirisena has decided not to seek reelection next month. Meanwhile, the 35 candidates for the presidency are the most ever in Sri Lanka.
The blacklist effectively bars US firms from selling technology to Chinese companies without government approval.
A bomb had been left in a motorcycle that detonated as a minibus of recruits for Afghan security forces passed, Nangarhar officials say. There has been no immediate claim of responsibility so far.
The North Korean ship, believed to be a fishing vessel, capsized after crashing with a Japanese patrol boat Okuni some 350 kilometres (217 miles) northwest of Noto peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture in central Japan.
The warning comes as the international financial hub remained partly paralysed from three days of protests in which the city's rail network and business outlets seen as pro-China were vandalised.
Taliban representatives said the militant group released three Indian engineers they had held captive. No confirmation from New Delhi and Afghan government as yet.
The conflict turns 18 Monday, meaning every single Afghan child now has known only war.
Hong Kong has been battered by 18 consecutive weekends of unrest, with widespread public anger over Chinese rule and the police response to protests.
The couple, Jolie King and Mark Firkin, spent almost three months in Tehran's Evin prison after they were arrested for flying a drone near a military zone without a license.
Pope Francis accepted resignation of Bishop Charles Drennan of Palmerston North after investigation carried out by church body following a young woman's complaint against him, top church official says.
The ban, imposed under emergency powers not used in more than half a century, was aimed at quelling nearly four months of unrest but instead triggered mass protests and vows of defiance, with a 14-year-old boy reportedly shot and wounded.
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