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Mateen's father is Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, the world's longest-reigning monarch and once the richest man on the planet.

The SEALs were on an interdiction mission, climbing up a vessel when one got knocked off by high waves. Under their protocol, when one SEAL is overtaken the next jumps in after them.

Lai, of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), had vowed to defend the island from China's "intimidation" and on Sunday Taipei's foreign ministry told Beijing to accept the result.

The IS group has carried out major assaults on schools, hospitals and mosques and also has attacked Shiite areas across the country in the last few years.

In Gaza, at least 23,968 people have been killed, the majority of them women and children, according to the health ministry in the besieged Hamas-ruled territory.

The March deadline was set during talks with Indian officials in the Maldives on Sunday, a top aide to President Mohamed Muizzu said, honouring the leader's long-standing election pledge.

Infighting and widespread disillusionment with ANC rule threaten to significantly erode its share of the vote and force it into a possibly uncomfortable power-sharing agreement.

President-elect Lai Ching-te vowed to defend the self-ruled island from Chinese "intimidation" and pledged to maintain peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.

Though the United States, as Israel's closest ally and largest weapons supplier, has stronger means to apply pressure on Israel, it shows no willingness to use them.

Witnesses in the Gaza Strip reported Israeli bombardment in the early morning. Fewer than half of Gaza's hospitals are partly functioning, the World Health Organization says.

Three weeks ago, PKK-affiliated militants tried to break into a Turkish base in northern Iraq, according to Turkish officials, leaving six soldiers dead.

The strike on a Houthi radar site came a day after US and British forces hit scores of targets across the country. Analysts said the Western strikes are unlikely to stop the rebels.

Images shared on social networks and on television channels showed part of a mountain detaching and crashing down onto a line of cars, while screams are heard.

The MDP is headed by pro-India former president Mohammad Solih, who was defeated by Muizzu, a pro-China leader, in the presidential elections.

The two-day hearing is the public side of a landmark case, one of the most significant to be heard in an international court and which goes to the heart of one of the world's most intractable conflict

The Israeli military on Thursday denied it was behind the bombing of an ambulance in the central Gaza Strip a day earlier which killed four medics and two other people.

Large swathes of East Antarctica experienced temperatures up to 40°C (72°F) above normal, shattering temperature records. It was the most intense heatwave ever recorded anywhere in the world. Climate scientists don’t like surprises.…

Papua New Guinea's prime minister declared a 14-day state of emergency in the capital Port Moresby.