Separately, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said that EU nuclear-related sanctions on Iran could be lifted soon.

Xi Jinping has made fighting corruption his central goal as president, having brought down a number of officials.

Venezuela’s Supreme Court has almost always ruled in favor of the government during the last 17 years of socialist rule.

As to the draft resolution written by Milica Marković, the petition says it lacks impartial and thorough research.

North Korean propagandists used rudimentary editing techniques to crop and flip old video footage of an earlier SLBM test.

The deal represents the largest acquisition to date of a U.S. production company by a Chinese firm.

Last week, Sweden, a favored destination for many of the migrants, sought to stem the flow by imposing controls on travelers from Denmark.

The company and Banolim signed an agreement to establish an external committee that will enhance safety at Samsung.

Aid workers found the 400 Syrians suffering from starvation, malnourishment and other illnesses during a visit to a hospital in Madaya.

When security forces stormed the building, two assailants detonated explosive belts, while two others were shot dead, police sources say.

Putin said Russian military aid was going to help parts of the Syrian opposition in the fight against IS as well as to help Assad.

So ruthless is the might of Adele that 25 has refused to lose pace even on what would have been Elvis’s 81st birthday.

Combined army, police and special forces units took back Darqad district, on the border with Tajikistan, in the early hours of January 10.

Rival car manufacturers such as Tesla, as well as technology giants Uber and Google, are also testing self-driving vehicles.

The North-South Transport Corridor aims to upgrade Armenia’s main corridor road as part of a broader push to improve connectivity.

The film is produced by 2-Team Productions, who won the Venice Public Choice award with The Farewell Party.

As the “most accurate precision strike product on the market”, they are radar-guided and able to be used against targets moving at up to 70mph.

VivaCell-MTS has handled 3,510,801 SMS messages on December 31, the New Year’s Eve, with a further 2,446,970 registered on January 1, 2016.

The titles include Thomas Vinterberg’s “The Commune,” Mia Hansen-Love’s “Things To Come” and Danis Tanovic’s “Death in Sarajevo.”

Astronomers believe they would finally be able to see the smaller planets instead of (basically) using context clues to figure them out.

Press freedom is a rising concern in Turkey, which ranked 149 out of 180 on the 2015 World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders.

The area’s mayor, Damien Careme, told French media that, unchecked, the number of people in the camp could reach 10,000.

Armenians Anastasia Galustyan and Slavik Hayrapetyan scored 145,62 and 163,39 points respectively to win silver medals.

Copies of the new edition have also been put on re-sale on the German Amazon website for €385, over six times the publisher’s price.

“We are supposed to transport gas to the Armenian border for Georgia to receive it on its own border with Armenia,” Alireza Kameli said.

Margrethe Vestager said it was up to the Belgian authorities to name the companies but noted that they were mainly European.

Mkhitaryan has been one of the stars of the Dortmund team this season and was heavily linked with a move to Juventus last summer.

According to the docs handed over to the Guardian by the Syrian Kurdish forces, Islamic State ran the operation through the border town of Tel Abyad.

“There is no set date yet. The date is going to be related to the full implementation of all the steps that need to be taken,” Mogherini said.

Before the attacks, a group of local football fans and doormen was said to have discussed going on a “manhunt”.