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A South Korean court has charged a North Korean defector with breaching a law on military secret protection, media reported Thursday.

TEL AVIV (Sputnik) - The Israeli parliament passed constitutional law on Thursday, declaring Israel a "nation-state" and stipulating that only Jews had the right to self-determination.

A female graduate who was allegedly assaulted by a professor at a university in Nanchang, East China's Jiangxi Province has sued the school for failing to protect her from sexual assault, the first such case in China involving a college.

As US President Donald Trump drags many US companies into a trade dispute with China, some Western observers have noted critically that Ivanka Trump's clothing and shoe businesses are exempt from her father's tariffs on Chinese goods.

US President Donald Trump has slammed Turkey for keeping a US pastor in custody on charges of aiding a terrorist group behind the failed coup.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has not detected Russian meddling in the midterm elections infrastructure, the director of the US counter-intelligence agency, Christopher Wray said.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US State Department has not found a precedent yet for calling a presidential interpreter to testify before Congress, department spokesperson Heather Nauert said in a press briefing on Wednesday.

A close aide of the French president, Alexandre Benalla, has been accused by media of battery after allegedly assaulting a protester at a May Day rally in Paris.

Representatives from YouTube, Facebook and Twitter testified in front of Congress once again on Tuesday in the ongoing saga that started in 2017 following US intelligence agencies’ claims that Russia used social media to meddle in the election the year prior.

He will deal with all the illegal migrants who have run to Canada due to Trump’s strict immigration policies.

Russian Embassy staffers will visit Maria Butina on Thursday who is being held in Washington DC on charges of being a foreign agent, the Embassy said.

The shop owner recognized the British actor almost instantly in spite of his heavy disguise.

A political action committee listed the banner on its website.

The mass evacuation of thousands of people from two Syrian villages in the northwest of the country has begun, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

On Tuesday, Israel’s Parliament passed the so-called “Breaking the Silence” law, which bans nongovernmental organizations and other activist groups from entering Israeli schools and talking to students.

The legislation was rejected because it mentioned same-gender couples as possible surrogate parents.

American lawmakers opposed to US President Donald Trump are calling on the House Oversight Committee to subpoena the sole American in the room while Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held private talks in Helsinki, Finland: Trump’s translator.

Turkey has lifted a state of emergency at 1 a.m. local time on Thursday (22:00 GMT Wednesday) that has been in place for two years since the 2016 failed coup, Anadolu news agency reported.

An hour after a Twitter user alerted animal rights organization PETA on Tuesday to an incident in which a falcon tied to flammable material was sent from the Gaza Strip to Israel as a method of igniting fires, the group responded by saying that animals don't have allegiances to nations.

US President Donald Trump told CBS News in an interview aired Wednesday that he holds Russian President Vladimir Putin personally responsible for Moscow's alleged meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.