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Move comes after Turkish prosecutors launched an investigation last month into CHP spokesperson Bulent Tezcan

China has offered diplomatic backing to its southern neighbour throughout the crisis

Marine biologists say that much of the garbage sinks to the seabed, damaging underwater fauna

Pakistan generates 5% of its electricity from four small 300MW Chinese reactors at Chashma plant

Moscow says Japan being used for US arms buildup

'Refugees are still fleeing, and many have suffered violence, rape, and deep psychological harm,' stated UNHCR

Accused man's name has not been published in the media due to Swedish laws on the presumption of innocence

It said eight rebels had been killed and another nine wounded

Militants set off a bomb before opening fire on people attending prayers at mosque in Sinai

Leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran agreed on Wednesday to help support a full-scale political process in Syria

Fidel remains present in the minds of Cubans, and state media daily recalls his exploits, speeches and writings

Swaraj will also have bilateral meetings with several leaders on the sidelines of the summit

Experts unable to trace source behind the spontaneous sound

Abubakar is widely expected to rejoin PDP in a bid to become its candidate for the next elections in early 2019

Senior Indian army officer arrested for journalist's murder

The insurgents had taken shelter at the school compound in the central eastern province of Wardak

Announcement came on the second day of a Saudi-sponsored meeting in Riyadh

Hassan Rouhani calls up Afghan president to express sorrow over deaths in terror attacks

Since the abortive coup, more than 50,000 people have been jailed pending trial over alleged links to Gulen

Former security chief has dark past from 1980s

Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi warns Muslims against reaching out-of-court settlement on Babri Masjid issue

The dead commander has been identified as Qari Qudrullah

Beijing boasts the world's largest standing army and the second biggest economy

"There are going to be many more women who are going to find their voices", says head of UN Women

More than ten companies in which the fund has holdings will attend the first network event in Geneva

The collapse is the latest in a spate of building collapses in the city

Condoms were not subject to the challenge but only two per cent of Filipino men use them

In 2015, Japan and South Korea agreed the issue of 'comfort women' would be 'irreversibly resolved'

Within one week in July this year, two men killed their wives at social care centres

Says vast majority of suspects in graft probe agreeing to settle

Amnesty International says treatment of the Rohingya was racial discrimination on the level of apartheid South Africa

Respect for other religious sects is not an accident

The van was travelling to Bangkok when it crashed into the 10-wheeler in Singburi

Government sources say a buoyant Maduro is now considering driving home his advantage

A 2012 government report said almost 15,000 people were killed every year on India's railways

Latest case to trigger parental outrage in a booming industry

Last week a North Korean soldier dramatically defected to the South

DPS officials said they would file capital murder charges against Black

A huge sea and air hunt is being conducted for the San Juan

The International Monetary Fund has repeatedly said that Pakistan’s rupee is overvalued by 5-20%

Parliamentary panel is looking at ways to obtain information about $8 billion investments of Pakistanis

Islamic State claims responsibility for the deadly attack in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar

The law includes penalties of up to 10 years in jail for insulting the king and crown prince

Mohammed bin Salman is seeking to develop new industries to wean his country off its dependency on oil exports

Appears to be an attempt to mainstream proscribed terrorists, says India's foreign ministry spokesperson

Some users, however, have raised questions over the surfer’s gender

An investigation found the fire started in a refrigeration storage area that had been illegally built

The stateless Rohingya have been the target of communal violence for years in Buddhist Myanmar

Video shows Karachi's killer whale which is known to be highly social animal that occur in stable social groups

As many as 17 detainees required medical treatment according to doctors