Comoros President Azali Assoumani has won a referendum to extend presidential term limits and end a system of rotating power among the archipelago's three main islands by an overwhelming majority, he said late on Wednesday.

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Portugal went on high alert on Thursday as temperatures threaten to beat record levels in coming days, prompting the government to warn of a high risk of forest fires in the first test of the country's readiness after the worst fires in history last year.

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Native American tribes that tried to block the Dakota Access oil pipeline during a months-long standoff with authorities in North Dakota more than a year ago are carrying on their fight in federal court, in what they contend is a symbol of their ongoing struggle for tribal sovereignty.

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China's religious affairs administration said on Thursday it would investigate claims a high-ranking Buddhist monk sexually harassed nuns and coerced them into sex, the latest case of a prominent figure accused of sexual misconduct in China.

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Israel said on Thursday it saw potentially stabilising benefits to President Bashar al-Assad winning the Syrian civil war, after the Israeli military said it killed seven Islamist insurgents in a rare air strike across the countries' frontier.

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The man barged into the shop and demanded the employees hand over to him all the cash and jewellery.

Singapore: 

A Bangladeshi national disguised as a Sikh was arrested for trying to steal from a pawn shop, Singapore police said today.

Sheikh Md Razan, 29, who was working as a construction worker previously and had overstayed since last December, was

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