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Darren Osborne, 48, who was heard by witnesses saying he wanted to "kill all the Muslims", was convicted by a jury at the end of a trial at Woolwich Crown Court in London on Thursday.

Sindh Minister for Planning and Development Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, 71, and his wife suffered bullet wounds. The bodies were found in their bedroom in high security Defence Housing Authority.

The incident unfolded while the US EP-3 Aries spy plane was on a mission in international airspace. It was intercepted by a Russian Su-27, which flanked the US aircraft for a total of two hours and 40 minutes, the Navy said in a statement.

Donald Trump said he needed social media to communicate with voters in the era of what he termed fake news. “If I don't have that form of communication I can't defend myself," Trump said in an interview.

The populist ex-communist Milos Zeman took 51.36 percent of the vote against 48.63 percent for Drahos. A former leftist prime minister, the 73-year-old Zeman represents poorer and rural voters with a lower level of education.

Prince Alwaleed appeared greyer and thinner than in his last public appearance, a television interview in October, and had grown a beard while in detention.

On Wednesday a court dismissed Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's appeal against a 12-year-jail sentence for corruption.

Merkel will meet with Social Democrat leader Martin Schulz and the chief of her Bavarian allies, Horst Seehofer, at 0800 GMT.

The four Taliban leaders include Abdul Samad Sani, Abdul Qadeer Basir, Abdul Baseer, Hafiz Mohammed Popalzai, and Maulawi Inayatullah, while Haqqani network leaders as Faqir Muhammad and Gula Khan Hamidi.

China's officially atheist Communist government is wary of organised movements outside its control, including religious ones, and analysts say restrictions on such groups have tightened under President Xi Jinping.

The dromedaries paraded down a dusty racetrack as judges rated the size of their lips, cheeks, heads and knees.

This Republic Day will see an extraordinary gathering of all the 10 heads of state of ASEAN countries. All 10 have been invited as Guests of Honour for Republic Day.

The Human Rights Council has taken a strong position against Israel's occupation of territory seized in the 1967 Middle East war, its treatment of Palestinians there and its building of Jewish settlements.

The mostly Muslim provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala in Thailand's far south are home to a long-running insurgency by ethnic Malay Muslims fighting for autonomy in which more than 6,000 people have been killed since 2004.

Shakil Afridi used a fake hepatitis vaccination program to try to get DNA samples from Osama bin Laden's family as a means of pinpointing his location. But he has not been charged in connection with the bin Laden operation.

Presidential spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said that "the United States can take care of its own interest" and added "we do not wish to be part of a US-China intramural" in the disputed South China Sea.