Kessler deleted his Twitter account in August after tweeting that the slain protester's death was "payback time".
Iranian leader defends the ballistic missile launch against Saudi Arabia, which was intercepted near Riyadh airport without casualties.
Priti Patel offered Prime Minister Theresa May a 'fulsome apology' after being forced to resign over secret meetings she held with Israeli officials.
International Trade Minister Mark Garnier has issued an apology to his constituents following allegations that he had his secretary buy him sex toys in 2010.
Patel is the second member of the cabinet to exit in the past week following the departure of Sir Michael Fallon.
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Dominic Wheatley says sensationalist reporting is deliberately designed to undermine legitimate business acts of offshore centres.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping gave a lavish red-carpet treatment to the visiting leader and billed the trip as a "state-visit plus".
Reddit users shared a gif showing a man rolling down a golf bunker - and claim it shows the Japanese Prime Minister taking a fall while Donald Trump walks by unaware.
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Patel already apologised for holding 12 unauthorised meetings with Israeli officials, businesses and charities. It has now emerged she held two further meetings in September.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov revealed preparations are on for a Putin-Trump bilateral on the sidelines of the regional Apec summit in Vietnam.
The US president, who is in South Korea as part of his Asia tour, warned Pyongyang that its nuclear programmes are putting North Korea in "grave danger".
Houthis said they were "ready to offer sanctuary to any member of the Al Saud family or any Saudi national that wants to flee oppression and persecution".
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Prince Charles lobbied on climate policy without disclosing his private estate's $113,500 investment in an offshore firm that could have benefited from a rule change.
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Harassment scandals, Brexit delays and secret meetings have cast a shadow over May - but not as big as you'd expect.
A North Korean prison camp survivor has launched a crowd-funding campaign to finance the assassination of dictator.
A former French political advisor recounts the first phone call between Francois Hollande and Trump - and it was a funny affair, at least for the French.
However, finance ministers meeting in Brussels remain divided over how and where to tax online companies that operate across the European Union.
The minister was forced to step down after allegations emerged surrounding his conduct around women.
"That was a way of signalling to his target audience that he was one of them, which of course couldn't be farther from the truth."
Dionisio Santiago is the successive chairman of Dangerous Drugs Board to face an unceremonious exit.
"Just when we think it couldn't get any more embarrassing," one Twitter user wrote.
The nuclear-powered supercarriers USS Nimitz, Ronald Reagan and Theodore Roosevelt will soon be seen practising wargames in the Western Pacific.
Some of the websites compromised belong to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, China's BDStar and the Armed Forces of the Philippines among others.