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Fire officials earlier identified the victims as foreign workers from Indonesia, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Pakistan

Rare movie night this week in Riyadh was precursor to an expected formal lifting of the kingdom's ban on cinemas

A wave of brutal panic has swept IoK after more than 100 women say they were victims of 'chopped-hair' attacks

Taliban have already threatened more attacks

'Super-majority' would allow Abe to propose changes to Japan's US-imposed constitution

Protest in the centre of Catalan capital had initially been called to push for release of leaders

The declaration comes four days after US-backed Kurdish-led forces recaptured the Syrian city

Tamil-language film 'Mersal' shows a character delivering a fiery monologue in which he attacks the government

Analysts say people turning to populist parties to vent their economic woes

In letter to interior ministry, Chinese embassy says East Turkestan Independence Movement militant has entered country

Tillerson will also meet with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al Jubeir

Thousands of books, articles, TV shows, movies and documentaries produced about the assassination

Cases of bubonic plague occur in Madagascar nearly every year

Officials from 35 nations paid their respects

Many migrant workers are employed in low-paying, physically-demanding industries in Malaysia

Murder comes month after another journalist was beaten to death during violent clashes

It was the second suicide attack in the Afghan capital in 24 hours

The two countries began taking steps towards detente in 2015 after 25 years of troubled relations

It was one of two deadly mosque attacks in the country on Friday

Many are expected to stay for months - or years - and some forever, in a largely reluctant wave of migration

Syrian defence ministry said rebels had deliberately fired into Israeli-held territory to provoke response

104 cases of illegal detention and torture in Rwandan military detention centres between 2010 and 2016 were reported

French warplanes flew overhead and armed helicopters evacuated the US wounded following attack near the Mali border

"We have arrested a person who very strongly resembles the description by witnesses" - police

Spokesperson Mashood Tajwar says the refueling vehicle brushed past the plane’s engine

emergency services took more than an hour to arrive at the scene complained the eye witnesses

Alarms were followed by several loud explosions

The administration is also considering expanding the categories of refugees required to be fingerprinted

His staunchly anti-Islamic rhetoric has won him popularity in a country where there are hardly any Muslims

Foreign Office refutes reports Indian minister called for dropping charges against Jadhav

Germany desires to become part of CPEC, envoy tells minister

US secretary of state will meet top Pakistani officials during his visit this month, says State Department

Letter was written by passenger Alexander Oskar Holverson to his mother on embossed Titanic 'on-board' stationary

39 dead in Kabul attack, top pro-govt military leader among 33 killed in Ghor

Turner said she hoped in addition to getting more women into sports her own business would benefit

Sri Lanka has about 1.2 million tuk-tuks according to official data, mostly are in poor condition

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Says children around world continue to die at alarming rate, with 5.6 million deaths recorded last year

Police searched their home after the woman filed a complaint of domestic violence and alleged he supported IS

Strache said that one condition for forming a coalition was the FPOe getting the interior ministry

"Drug policy is stuck on repeat."

Uncertainty over how the FIFA ban would impact Blatter's attendance at matches

At least nine killed by vigilante mobs

Penny Deams, a practicing Muslim since 15 years, complained she was fired after she refused to work till 10pm

Tillerson called Wednesday for deeper cooperation with India in the face of growing Chinese influence in Asia

Clashes are also common with security forces trying to keep itinerant workers off company land

A month after the double hurricanes, island still largely a wasteland

Ashraf Ghani says Afghans stand by their security forces and will use all their force to fight terror groups

Emergency workers had managed to rescue three of the workers from under tons of debri

There have also been collapses at the ancient Roman site of Pompeii