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Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was charged with corruption on Wednesday for allegedly accepting millions of dollars in bribe money, in a stunning fall from grace just months after his shock election defeat.

Some 70 people are dead or missing after a ferry ran aground off the coast of Indonesia, according to an updated official toll on Wednesday, the latest deadly maritime accident in the Southeast Asian archipelago.

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was arrested by anti-corruption investigators Tuesday, officials said, the latest dramatic development in a widening graft probe that has engulfed the ex-leader.

In a rare move, a Japanese women's university said on Tuesday it will begin in 2020 accepting transgender students who were born male but identify as female.

UN member countries on Sunday agreed to a peacekeeping budget of just under $6.7 billion, according to diplomatic sources.

A family of 11 found dead at their home in New Delhi had been observing "spiritual, mystical practices", police said Sunday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition was facing an uncertain future, as her hardline conservative interior minister Sunday offered his resignation after weeks of battling to change her mind on migrant policy.

A man went on a stabbing spree at a toddler’s birthday party at a low-income apartment complex for refugees in the US state of Idaho, wounding nine people including six children, police said Sunday.

Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani said on Saturday an agreement has been made with Pakistan – in writing – on rooting out terrorism.

The United States and its regional allies will maintain a "strong collaborative defensive stance" on North Korea, despite ongoing negotiations to bring peace to the peninsula, Defense Secretary James Mattis said on Friday.

Prime Minister Theresa May urged EU leaders on Thursday not to risk the safety of their citizens by cutting security ties with Britain after Brexit, as she sought to step up the wider withdrawal negotiations.

A man armed with a shotgun and smoke grenades burst into a newspaper office in the US city of Annapolis on Thursday, killing five people in what police described as a "targeted attack."

Hundreds of vehicles on Wednesday pushed into Mosul's rubble-strewn streets to begin a massive clean up campaign, nearly a year after Islamic State group jihadists were pushed out of their "capital" in Iraq.

A Republican "compromise" bill reforming US immigration law failed spectacularly in Congress on Wednesday, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump's efforts to resolve a swirling border crisis that has seen thousands of migrant families separated.

EU leaders face deep divisions on migration and the eurozone at a crucial summit in Brussels on Thursday that could decide the fate of embattled German Chancellor Angela Merkel and even the bloc itself.

The investigation into the assassination of the allegedly North Korean leader's half-brother was "shoddy" and "lopsided", a Malaysian court heard on Wednesday as the trial resumed of two women accused of the murder.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and his arch-foe Riek Machar have "agreed on some points" at peace talks in Khartoum and a deal is to be signed, Sudanese officials said on Tuesday.

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Donald Trump's controversial travel ban targeting Muslim-majority nations, but the president's "zero tolerance" crackdown on illegal immigration was put on hold for lack of places to detain families arrested at the Mexican border.