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Official says China will continue to maintain strategic partnership with Pakistan

Father of deceased pleads authorities to return daughter's body; 'I want her to be be buried in Indonesia,' he says

United Nations launches campaign to end statelessness within a decade

Three masked people fired with machine guns and pistols as a group of citizens left a building in village of al Dalwah

Pentagon says all troops legally bound by non-disclosure agreements promising never to discuss classified information

Proposes Pakistan should brace itself for NATO pullout

United States states its commitment to the people of Pakistan in efforts to counter terrorism

Some reports said Syrians and Turkmen could also have been on board as well as Afghans

About 175 executives of publishing group Conde Nast walked into the new offices spread across floors 20 to 44

Crash in California's Mojave Desert during a test flight killed one pilot and badly injuring the other

Author says Japanese people have come to consider themselves as 'victims' of war

Police say one victim found in suitcase, another inside apartment with wounds to her neck, buttocks

Polls this year show Republicans gaining in tight races across the country

The 62-year-old will be the second senior leader to be hanged for crimes committed during the 1971 war

Foreign ministry says 0.25m have been deported in last five years

The laser defence system is capable of shooting down small aircraft within a two-km (1.2-mile) radius

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif expressed grief and sorrow over the loss of innocent lives in the Wagah suicide bombing

An official says neither India nor Pakistan has shown interest in meeting

It's baffling that women like Aqsa are giving up everything to join terror organisation that is blazing through Iraq

Blast struck near a tent from where tea and water were being distributed during a procession in Baghdad

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome infected 1,800 people and took 299 lives in the southern Chinese city

Mudslide on a tea plantation in central Sri Lanka left 38 people missing and presumed dead

War crimes court find Mir Quasem Ali guilty of 10 charges including murder and abduction during Bangladesh's 1971 war

If IS envisages influence in region, experts says they will have to either defy or find accommodation with Taliban

Zero Point, located at the Taftan crossing point, is the main trading point

Country seeks to end worst energy crisis in decades.

Paris committed to reducing public spending, drive economic reforms

On his first day as PM, Modi set up the SIT to go after black money. But after this, things seem to have slipped back

Interior minister says govtt of Bangladesh has misused the process of law as a political tool against the JI leader

Aziz and Zarif maintained that visits envisaged ties between Pakistan and Iran

Taliban claims responsibility in email statement sent to media

US judge reverses order preventing nurse from visiting places, demanding that she keeps three feet away from others

Decline reflects the end of military operations in Iraq in 2011 and the drawdown in Afghanistan

Fierce clashes in and around Kobane have killed about 100 IS fighters in the past three days

The outage marked "the first time the country has been without power since 2007"

Authorities initially estimated the number of presumed dead at 300 and then reduced the toll to 100 three days ago

Boko Haram was holding upwards of 500 women and young girls, says Human Rights Watch Report

Analysts believe Ankara can mediate between Islamabad and Kabul

Reyhaneh Jabbari was hanged in Tehran's Evin prison for the murder of man she said had tried to rape her

Closure prompted Palestinian president to condemn the move as an Israeli ‘declaration of war’

Witnesses say three men left bags packed with explosives among the buses

Security officials estimate that there are currently around 500 British nationals fighting in Syria and Iraq

Washington leads the international drive to stop the spread of the disease that has killed nearly 5,000 people

US Navy Seal to share details of mission preparation and al Qaeda chief’s last moments

Indian passengers from New Delhi were flying to Saudi Arabia with a stopover in Pakistan

Demonstrators earlier forced the govt to scrap a vote on controversial plans to allow Compaore to extend his reign

a surge of violence forced the government to scrap a vote on allowing President Compaore to extend his 27-year rule

The announcement came amid intensifying efforts to conclude a definitive pact.

Muhammad Aqeeq Ansari, a 30-year-old software designer, arrested on Monday

The Bank has marshalled some $500 million to help battle the disease