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Imam Abdullah Patel challenged frontrunner Boris Johnson and the four others remaining in the Conservative Party leadership race over tackling Islamophobia in Britain during the debate telecast by the BBC Tuesday night.

Pakistan last month reached an agreement with the IMF for a $6 billion bailout package aimed at shoring up its finances and strengthening a slowing economy.

The former Egyptian President died during hearing in Cairo court on Monday.

Keith Raniere, 58, is on trial facing charges including racketeering, sex trafficking and child pornography. Prosecutors said he used his organization, Nxivm, to hide a secretive sorority where young women were blackmailed into sex.

The recommendation, contained in a working document prepared by the Vatican for a synod of bishops from the Amazon scheduled for October, also called for some kind of 'official ministry' for women in the area, although it did not elaborate.

Muhammad Bilal Khan was with a friend when he received a phone call after which a man took him to the nearby forest on Sunday night.

The passenger tried to wrest control of the steering wheel following an argument with the driver, police said.

Carrie Lam's statement came after hundreds of thousands of people clogged the streets in central Hong Kong dressed in black to demand that she steps down, a day after she suspended the extradition bill.

Locals in a town near the Sundarbans, the world's biggest mangrove forest that straddles India and Bangladesh, captured and killed the wolf because it had attacked their livestock.

The victim maintained that despite the ongoing rape charges against the accused, the legal procedure and University protocol allowed him to stay on campus and continue to harass her.

A delegation of the United Nations bodies, including the WHO, UNAIDS and UNICEF, are already in Karachi to help the Sindh health authorities.

The mystery incident, the second involving shipping in the strategic sea lane in only a few weeks, came amid spiralling tensions between Tehran and Washington, which has pointed the finger at Iran over earlier tanker attacks in May.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addressed to a Washington audience that included Google's Indian-American CEO Sundar Pichai and top corporate executives from India and the US at the India Ideas Summit on Wednesday.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Japan's PM that he doesn't consider Trump as a person worthy of exchanging messages with.

A jury convicted Timothy Jones Jr. of five counts of murder last week for the killings in his Lexington home in August 2014.

The Senate committee, which is chaired by Republican Senator Richard Burr, is conducting a bipartisan investigation into Russian interference in U.S. politics, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election.