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US Secretary Mike Pompeo says it is up to Taliban to resume peace talks

Rankings based on restricting independent media; blocking websites; surveillance of journalists by authorities etc

Student groups have set a deadline of late Friday for their remaining demands to be met

General McKenzie says Taliban "overplayed their hand" in peace negotiation

After three months of unrest, Lam last week withdrew a controversial extradition bill that had triggered the protests

For the second time, lawmakers reject Johnson’s request to break the deadlock through an early national election

The typhoon badly affected road and rail links to the airport, causing more than 100 flights to be scrapped

Says we have been hitting our enemy harder than at any time in 10 years

The California-based company is widely expected to launch three new iPhones on Tuesday

The post goes viral after hundreds of Saudis share the video asking if anyone knows the violinist behind the helmet

Royal decree restructures visit, transit and Hajj policies

Film Heritage Foundation, which found the items, plans to preserve and exhibit the archives

Iran has said notwithstanding its reduction of commitments under the JCPOA

Cyprus decriminalised homosexuality and has rolled back previous conservative attitudes to same sex relationships

Telecommunications regulator orders phone companies to cut off mobile access in refugee camps

Public works authority will test if the new surface effectively brings down the temperature

It would take place regardless of outcome of government-led vote on holding snap election, says spokesperson

In almost every country men are more likely than women to commit suicide

Deeply concerned about impact of India's recent actions on human rights of Kashmiris: Michelle Bachelet

Mike Pompeo says Afghan peace talks are on hold, US will not reduce military support for Afghan troops

Beijing denies any mistreatment at the camps

Hurricane Batters Bahamas

Points to Taliban's killing of a US soldier in a bombing in Kabul

Authorities say more than 2,000 people had taken refuge in shelters

Let’s show the Indian govt that the world is watching: Amnesty International

As Iran responds to US sanctions by breaching its 2015 nuclear deal

He has a pacemaker implanted in 2000 and underwent successful urinary tract surgery in US in August 2007

Mourners mark the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) and his 72 loyal companions at Karbala

Israel says drone fell inside southern Lebanon during routine operations but did not say what caused the crash

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky scores a big win by exchanging prisoners with Russia

This year's heatwaves hit France in June and July, with a new record temperature of 46 degrees Celsius

Boris Johnson's strategy to leave 'do or die' by October 31 deadline has been shaken by the events of recent days

Some 740,000 of the Muslim minority have fled to camps in southeast Bangladesh after a military crackdown in Myanmar

'We rarely encounter such bizarre cases in medicine'

In Saturday bombshell US president abruptly called off secret meeting with Taliban at Camp David

Armando wins worldwide headlines and nets Joel Verschoot $1.4 million

Riyadh calls on separatists, who seek to revive former South Yemen republic, to cede control of Aden

Taliban will hold a meeting to discuss all aspects of ongoing negotiations before issuing statement, says source

India exerting dictatorial control over information coming out of IOK to promote its own narrative: FO

Fawad Chaudhry says India can only reach the moon through Bollywood after second lunar mission ends in disaster

"We are not going to go through this every three months," says French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian

A meteorological agency official says the typhoon could bring "record" winds and rains

US president accuses Taliban of using an attack in Kabul to 'build false leverage'

At least 12 Kashmiris injured as occupying troops use tear gas, pellet guns to stop religious procession

Conflict and endemic corruption have shredded Afghanistan's infrastructure and economy

The clashes between the GNA forces and LNA on Saturday morning came after nearly a month of calm

Francis made his appeal on a visit to Madagascar, the world’s fourth-largest island

Dorian, proving to be a long-lived storm, hit the Bahamas on Sunday and Monday with Category 5 winds

'He’s in full-blown meltdown. It’s like the episodes of Chernobyl where the reactor’s melting down'

The venue is where Mao Zedong in 1949 proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China