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The area has suffered a string of deadly landslides, with a major incident last November killing 100

'This is by far the most controversial application that we have ever had to deal with' committee chairman Peter Sowray

Use of colonial-era laws such as sedition and criminal defamation to clamp down on government critics

The researchers said they had found the virus in three groups of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

The arms sales decision 'was not based on China', Obama says, but part of normalising ties with the ex-enemy

There were 337,922 reports of violence against women such as rape, molestation, abduction and cruelty by husbands

'Pakistani authorities had delivered Mansour's badly burned remains for burial in the western city of Quetta'

In the case of the Taliban, it acts as both an advisory council for the Emir (leader) and crafts policy

Former secretary of state would concentrate on campaigning against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump instead

Taliban originated among young Afghan religious students who took refuge in Pakistan from 1979-89 Soviet occupation

Anura Senanayake was remanded into custody into the May 2012 killing of national rugby skipper

Some 18,000 Indians worked in Libya before the country descended into chaos in 2011

The accord will significantly boost the role of the undertapped port of Chabahar, says Iranian presidency's statement

Yigit Bulut, who advises president on economy, says: 'we do not expect anything from EU'

Wang Ching-yu is accused of overpowering the mother of the child and beheading the young girl with a kitchen knife

We look at 13 images from events around the world

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani also flew in to Tehran on Monday for the signing of a tripartite agreement

Militant group Hizb-ul-Mujahideen claimed the attacks, but there was no official confirmation it was responsible

Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain risked sparking a 'do-it-yourself recession' by voting to leave the bloc

At least one of the animals last week dragged a teenager from his village while he was sleeping and killed him

Direct negotiations with the Palestinians are "the only way to proceed to peace," Netanyahu says

Police say 21 Rohingya fled a detention centre at about 1 am after sawing through an iron bar in their communal cell

Seven bombs, most of them suicide attacks, hit Jableh and Tartus almost simultaneously

Pakistani officials say the Taliban leader had just returned from Iran when his vehicle was attacked in Balochistan

Yildirim chosen by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) as its chairman, replacing Ahmet Davutoglu

India's National Green Tribunal, which hears cases related to environmental protection, raised the issue

Round-the-clock services were due to start last year but were delayed by disagreement between unions and authorities

Greece plans a police operation to evacuate the migrant camp of Idomeni on its border with Macedonia

The climber reached the 8,849-metre summit on Saturday but collapsed while descending the Hillary Step ice wall

Footage shows sharks ripping giant humpback whale carcass to shreds, leaving a trail of crimson water

Buddhist nationalists have staged protests across the country against using the term Rohingya

'The reason I remain confident is it's the right thing to do' Obama tells reporters

No militant group has claimed the attack

United States and Vietnam are warily eyeing China's military build-up in the disputed South China Sea

The term limit amendment applies only to Rakhmon, owing to his 'Leader of the Nation' status

Even for the middle class, most of it sliding into poverty, hamburgers and hotels are out-of-reach excesses

The authenticity of the audio clip, purporting to be from Abu Muhammad al Adnani could not be verified

Vietnam has long been calling for arms embargo to be lifted, arguing that buying weapons for self-defence is normal

US president confirms that Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a US air strike

The shuttle, about one sixth the size of a usual one, was meant to reach an altitude of 70 km before gliding back down

The Taliban have not yet officially confirmed that Mansoor was killed

The over 60 heads of state and government gathered for the two-day summit convened by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

The fast-moving flows incinerated homes and left livestock blackened and peeling

Canada has welcomed more than 26,000 Syrian refugees following a campaign pledge by Trudeau

Separatist leaders accuse New Delhi of keeping Kashmiris under the heel of up to 750,000 security forces

The fire started late at night, meaning many of the children were asleep and unable to escape

The Communist country restricts access to foreign websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter

'It's important to recognise that in the midst of war, leaders make all kinds of decisions' Obama says

'Marxism and religion don't contradict each other, other theories can help us better understand our own faith'

He will meet both President Hassan Rouhani and the Islamic republic's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday