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Security forces have launched fresh offensive this morning to flush out militants, says Indian army official

Al-Mashi is currently under the control of the Manbij Military Council, the Observatory said

US chess champion Nazi Paikidze-Barnes will boycott the Tehran championships because she refuses to wear the hijab

During her brief tenure as chief of police she discussed how to handle cases concerning women and girls

The project is described by the government as a solution to crowding, pollution and rising house prices in Cairo

Russia has just indicated that it wants to postpone the planned visit

He could face a five-year prison sentence and be forced to pay a fine as high as $800,000

She was found deep in the debris of four six-storey residential buildings more than 12 hours after they crumbled

In some countries, girls as young as 10 are forced to marry much older men

Ban urged everyone to continue working to abolish the death penalty entirely

Ryan, the speaker of the House of Representatives, said he would not defend Trump or campaign for him

Both countries set for their annual combat exercise to commence next month in Maharashtra

Chinese companies have been treated with suspicion because of the ties they have to the country's communist regime

Several of the voters also said they disliked Trump's strategy of highlighting the infidelities of Clinton's husband

An armed group was plotting car bomb attacks in a province near Bangkok, Thailand's national security head said

The warming relations between Turkey and Russia come as both countries are dealing with troubled economies

The action makes federal funding available to affected individuals in 10 counties hit by the storm

Some 95 percent of girls and 50 percent of women imprisoned in Afghanistan were accused of "moral crimes"

The rejection by the center-left Labour party ended any hope the plebiscite bill could pass

The film is about Edward Snowden, aiming to expose the vast scope of US digital intelligence gathering

It is the first Facebook product launched outside the United States

The Democratic presidential candidate enjoys 46% support among likely voters against 35% for Trump in a four-way race

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum marked the groundbreaking of The Tower at Dubai Creek Harbour

It shocking that Trump is a major party's candidate for the presidency, the FP editors said

We look at 13 pictur­es from events around the world

Their groundbreaking work has laid "an intellectual foundation" for designing policies and institutions in many areas

Two Israelis including a police officer and a woman were killed in the Jerusalem attack

A leaked tape on Friday captured the Republican presidential nominee saying degrading things about women

Burmese Muslims also complain of being treated as second-class citizens in their own country

Saleemi films himself sitting in London's Leicester square with a cardboard sign that read 'I'm homeless'

Prosecutors say that the woman began talking to herself and lashing out for no apparent reason

This comes after Saudi last month agreed to a surprise output cut of oil cartel OPEC, the first in eight years

The hashtag was started after Trump’s answer to a Muslim’s question on Islamophobia during Sunday’s debate

Balwinder Sahani, who owns a Dubai-based property management company, says he has collected 10 number plates so far

The police chief did not respond to inquiries when he was contacted

The material was TATP, the homemade explosive that was used by militants in the Paris and Brussels attacks

Warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition later attacked the two military bases from which the missiles were fired

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump went toe to toe Sunday in their second presidential debate

The small, bright green and grey-breasted birds first arrived in Spain in cages as entertaining pets

Five people have been rescued from under the rubble of the buildings, say rescue officials

Bill Clinton's accusers were present in the audience, as guests of the Trump campaign, at Sunday's debate

The TurkStream pipeline is planned to pump 31.5 billion cubic metres per year of Russian gas to Europe

The Saudi-led coalition has come under increasing international scrutiny over civilian deaths

The army launched its assault on the besieged sector of Aleppo two weeks ago with the backing of Russian air strikes

A US military spokesperson said the two missiles failed to hit the ship

India was granted an NSG waiver in 2008 that allows it to engage in nuclear commerce

He also accused Bill Clinton of going on the attack against women who had alleged sexual misconduct by her husband

Attack happen in Sunni town US backed Iraqi security forces and Iran-backed Shi'ite militia took back from IS last yr

Bhumibol Adulyadej has not been seen in public for nearly a year as he battles series of ailments in Bangkok hospital

The tax paid is only a fraction of the £211 million revenues that Facebook reported in Britain last year