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Despite clash, Richardson says Suu Kyi remains Myanmar’s best hopeFormer New Mexico governor Bill Richardson speaks during an interview with Reuters as a member of an international advisory board on the crisis of Rakhine...Venezuela calls early electionVenezuela will hold a presidential election by the end of April, the ruling Constituent Assembly said on Tuesday, pulling forward a vote in which President...Disgraced US Olympics doctor jailedEx-US Olympic gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar has been sentenced to 40 to 175 years after testimony from nearly 160 of his victims.The judge dismissed...Russia to sell six SU-30 warplanes to MyanmarA man watches a Russian fighter Su-30 performing during the MAKS-2013, the International Aviation and Space Show, in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, on August 27, 2013AFPRussian...Top US diplomat quits panel on RohingyaVeteran US diplomat Bill Richardson has resigned from an international panel set up by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to advise on the Rohingya...Sessions questioned in Russia probe as FBI accused of biasUS attorney general Jeff Sessions was named Tuesday as the first member of Donald Trump's cabinet to be questioned in the probe into allegations of...German outcry over tanks used by TurkeyThe German government is facing calls to halt arms exports to Turkey after reports emerged that German-made Leopard tanks were being used in an offensive...Kentucky school shooting kills 2, wounds 13, teen arrestedStudents attend a prayer vigil for students killed and injured after a 15-year-old boy opened fire with a handgun at Marshall County High School, at...Rupert Murdoch says Facebook should pay for ‘trusted’ newsNews Corp founder Rupert Murdoch, seen here in 2017, is urging Facebook to pay "trusted" news organizations for content, in the same way cable TV...UK Army chief warns of Russian threatBritain's armed forces would struggle to match the Russian army in battle, the head of the Army will say.General Sir Nick Carter will say the...Turkey steps up assault on Kurdish militia in SyriaTurkish troops advance near the Syrian border at Hassa, in an offensive aiming to oust a Kurdish militia AFPThe Turkish military announced the death of...Merkel readies for intense German coalition talksGermany's Social Democrats (SPD) on Monday demanded concessions on immigration and healthcare from Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives in looming coalition talks that the center-left party...China says US warship violated its South China Sea sovereigntyFile photo: Boats at Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea are shown in this handout photo provided by Planet Labs, and captured on March...Vietnam jails ex-oil exec for life over graftA court in Vietnam sentenced one former official from state oil and gas group PetroVietnam to life in prison and another to 13 years on...US shutdown hits as working week beginsHundreds of thousands of federal workers will be unable to report for work on Monday, as the US Senate struggles to end a government shutdown.The...New Mumbai metro will beat traffic, but at what cost?Supporters say the new Metro 3 line will help ease congestion and pollution on the famously congested streets of India's financial capital, but envrionmentalists and...At least six dead as Kabul hotel attack endsThis screengrab made from an AFP video taken on January 20, 2018 with the aid of a nightvision camera, show a member of security forces...Police arrest pet owner who killed dog hunter in ChinaScreenshot of the CCTV still posted taken from Asia Wire via Metro. It shows the assailant shooting the dog and leavingThe pet owner is now...Endangered orangutan shot and decapitated in IndonesiaJAKARTA: A critically endangered Bornean orangutan found dead in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province on Monday (Jan 15) died three days earlier from air rifle wounds...Rohingya militants say Myanmar refugee return plan ‘deceitful’Picture - Rohingya refugees line up for daily essentials distribution at Balukhali camp, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh January 15, 2018.Citing the tens of thousands of...Anti-IS coalition civilian killings tripled in 2017A picture taken on July 9, 2017, shows a general view of the destruction in Mosul's Old City. Iraq will announce imminently a final victory...