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McDonald's is the second-biggest formal employer in the neighbourhood

Talks are aimed at charting a path forward to revive UN-backed negotiations which broke down in 2016

Washington faces growing questions over its strategy to force the Taliban into talks to end the 17-year conflict

Islamic State strongholds in Iraq discussed

The goal is to protect marine biodiversity and avoid further pillaging of the oceans

State media maintains that explosions occurred at the munitions camp due an electrical problem

Foreign minister says it regretted US's decision saying it would harm prospects for Middle East peace

Authors retracted their paper last week

US administration announced earlier that it would no longer provide funding to UN agency for Palestinian refugees

Says Britain would be ready to leave the EU without a deal if the two sides cannot agree on the divorce terms

The controversial registry includes only those able to show they were in Assam before 1971

PM Mahathir says his country will shelve three China-backed projects, including a $20 bn railway

Trump says he does not remember much of what happened at the “very unimportant” campaign meeting

The law allows for accounts above 5000 followers with personal blogs and websites to be monitored

State media cited explosion at ammunition dump as cause but an official in region said they were from Israeli strikes

The coalition pledged to hold accountable anyone who contributed to the error

Police later identified the suspect as a 19-year-old Afghan man with a German residency permit, being questioned

Nearly 600 firefighters, police and rescue workers have been able to extinguish large parts of fire by mid-afternoon

If they stop the aid completely it will have a major effect on our children,' says Abu Huweila, 40, from Jabalia camp

US officials claim that an assault on Idlib could lead to many casualties

Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert was named special representative and will head up the UN's Assistance Mission for Iraq

Will organise rally at biggest Texas stadium, US president boasted

China has carried out joint exercises, training and competitions with Pakistani armed forces

18 people seek medical help as the plane skids off a runway in the Olympic city of Sochi

'Israel supports the US move'

Britain and other European signatories try to keep the nuclear deal alive

Indian police have arrested a senior Buddhist monk accused of sexually abusing 15 boys

The widely expected decision removes a cloud hanging over Brazil’s most uncertain election in decades

Junior civil aviation minister orders probe

The explosion took place at around 5:30am in a site run by the Bayernoil group

Russian Foreign Minister says the Syrian government has every right to chase militants out of Idlib

Assailant was identified as an 19-year-old Afghan man

Amid sensitive negotiations over the future of the country’s nuclear and ballistic missile arsenal

An agreement to study the feasibility of a rail line linking the two countries was signed by officials on Friday

Many Germans have recoiled at anti-migrant violence since the stabbing

Russia accuses Ukraine of assassinating him while Kiev blames separatist infighting

No concrete figures on how many children are still among the estimated 500,000 troops that serve in Myanmar's military

Saudi official signaled implementing plan to dig a canal that will separate Qatari peninsula from Saudi mainland

HTS swore allegiance to al Qaeda in 2013 before splitting with the global militant syndicate in July 2016

US has announced a halt on funding for UN's agency for Palestinian refugees declaring it as irredeemably flawed

Judge Charles Haddon says It is difficult to predict if he will become de-radicalised and no longer be a danger

Tehran says it is impossible so long as Western powers failed to meet existing commitments

Sarah Mardini, 23, who is being held in a maximum security prison in Athens, has denied all charges

It's surely the most extraordinary architectural and cultural trip one can have on a river anywhere in the world

In April, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to speed up the first deliveries of the S-400s

It will be the seventh straight annual increase as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reinforces country’s military

The president complains the US is treated unfairly in global trade and has blamed the WTO for allowing that to happen

Experts say their predictions are conservative

Ricketson has spent more than a year behind bars after his bail was denied

The trade dispute makes economic growth uncertain and unsettles lives of ordinary Chinese people