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The department did not ask the court to immediately block a separate part of last Thursday's ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that said grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins of legal U.S. residents should be exempted f...

The move would see an end to more than 800 years of tradition after students increasingly chose to use laptops to take down lecture notes.

Pakistan's new prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, during a visit to the newly-established Airpower Center of Excellence (ACE) at an operational air base of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), flew in the single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft.

Trump again pointedly declined to rule out a US military response following North Korea’s sixth and most powerful nuclear test as his administration seeks increased economic sanctions, saying Pyongyang was "behaving badly and it's got to stop."

With winds of around 185 miles per hour (290 km per hour), the storm the size of France has ravaged small islands in the northeast Caribbean in recent days, including Barbuda, Saint Martin and the British and US Virgin Islands, ripping down trees and flat...

The air strike killed two soldiers and caused damage near the town of Masyaf, a Syrian army statement said. It warned of the "dangerous repercussions of this aggressive action to the security and stability of the region".

The incident took place at the Vermont Gurdwara in Los Angeles, also known as the Hollywood Sikh Temple.

Donald Trump's repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program puts more than 20,000 Indian-Americans at risk of immediate deportation, placing India in the top ten countries for DACA eligibility.

Hurricane Irma is about 270 miles (440 km) east of Antigua and packing maximum sustained winds of 175 mph (280 km/h), the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

Nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan said that North Korea was a self-reliant nuclear power and attributed it to a highly qualified group of scientists, in an interview to BBC Urdu.

The letter left by Barack Obama for Donald Trump, revealed some seven months after the handover of power, revolves around one central bit of advice: beyond the bitterness and brutality of political combat and power struggles, never lose sight of the impor...

North Korea said Sunday it had tested a hydrogen bomb which it can mount on a missile, declaring "perfect success" in its biggest-ever nuclear detonation and presenting a potent challenge to President Donald Trump.

Hurricane Irma churned in open waters off the west coast of Africa, packing winds of 160 kilometers per hour, said the Miami-based National Hurricane Center in its advisory.

The resolution passed by the lower house of Parliament also rejected the recent statement by Gen John Nicholson - the top US commander in Afghanistan - about alleged presence of Afghan Taliban leaders in Pakistan.

Lawmakers voted to boost spending by more than 30 percent, to 46.5 billion South Sudanese pounds ($300 million) from the 2016/2017 budget of 29.6 billion.

After just eight days of fighting, all 29 neighborhoods in Tal Afar city had been taken back from Islamic State, the military said in a statement on Sunday.