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Rescue officials and police confirmed the toll, with a police official telling AFP the census team had been the target of the attack.

A chemical weapons attack in an opposition-held town in northern Syria killed dozens of people on Tuesday, leaving residents gasping for breath and convulsing in the streets and overcrowded hospitals. The Trump administration blamed the Syrian government...

A two-member bench of Lahore High Court hearing the petition filed by JuD chief Hafiz Saeed and four otherschallenging their house arrest under the anti-terrorism act was Tuesday dissolved as one of the judges has been ransferred.

Two traffic police were killed in an attack by radical Islamists in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan, the regional governor said on Tuesday, a day after a suicide bomber allegedly hit the Saint Petersburg metro.

India has opposed external involvement in bilateral issues with Pakistan.

An explosion has been reported on the metro in the Russian city of St Petersburg, according to state-run media TASS.

President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called on Turkish voters in Europe to defy the "grandchildren of Nazism" and back a referendum this month on changing the constitution, comments likely to cause further ire in Europe.

Mudslides killed at least 206 people and left hundreds injured or missing after destroying homes in southern Colombia, officials said Saturday.

"Venezuela repudiates this onslaught by intolerant, right-wing and pro-imperialist governments in Latin America under the orders of the US State Department," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Prime Minister Theresa May formally began Britain's divorce from the European Union on Wednesday, declaring there was no turning back and ushering in a tortuous exit process that will test the bloc's cohesion and pitch her country into the unknown.

A federal judge in Hawaii decided Wednesday to extend his order blocking President Donald Trump's travel ban.

A small shuttle bus carrying Texas church members home from a retreat collided head-on with a pickup truck, killing 12 people and injuring three others Wednesday on a two-lane highway in southwestern Texas, officials said.

The Belt and Road Initiative is a pet project of President Xi. It was proposed by him in 2013 and the project aims to build a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient trade routes.

Coca-Cola has called in police to investigate after human waste turned up in a consignment of its drink cans at one of the companys factories in Northern Ireland.

US President Donald Trump has appointed his son-in-law Jared Kushner as the head of a newly-created office inside the White House to overhaul the federal government with input from the private sector.

President Donald Trump said on Friday that he was disappointed that a conservative faction in the House of Representatives blocked his healthcare legislation and said "we learned a lot about loyalty" from the effort.