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With three weeks to go, polls give Clinton and Trump a thumping advantage

The Justice Department 'disappointed' in Orenstein's ruling and plans to ask a higher judge to review the matter

Probes into the fund's finances have been opened in Malaysia, the US, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore and Abu Dhabi

North Korea has been under UN sanctions since 2006 because of its multiple nuclear tests and rocket launches

The final batch of roughly 3,800 pages of mails brought the sum total released to more than 52,000 vetted pages

US lawmakers have also expressed concern about a possible sale of F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan

In one case, an 11-year-old girl from London was married on Skype to a 25-year-old man in Bangladesh

The bombing targeted a funeral for a well-known member of the Beni Tamim, one of the main tribes in Diyala province

False rumours spread that a new six-year-old pupil was HIV-positive, an official said

Riham Saeed sparked a backlash when she suggested the victim had asked for the abuse

The first major truce in five years of conflict was expected to allow aid workers to bring supplies to 154,000 people

The nanny was seen wandering around the street holding up a child's severed head high in the air

PM Najib Razak is under pressure over allegations that billions of dollars had been pilfered from state firms

Despite plummeting sales of print newspapers, the new paper insisted that its unique format would help it survive

Officials say radioactive material represented a significant health risk if taken outside its container

US is now India's top arms source and holds more joint exercises with it than any other country

The attacker stabbed six boys and four girls outside the gate of an elementary school

Religious rights group China Aid said authorities forced Bao and Xing to dismiss their lawyers before the trial

Media says charges are linked to deaths of over 40 hospitalised patients who were hastily evacuated and later died

Columnists are jockeying to recommend best regions for Americans seeking to escape should Trump wins US elections

The election to the 88-member Assembly of Experts is important because it will pick Khamenei's successor

China has jailed dozens of senior officials since President Xi Jinping launched sweeping campaign

Security forces had mostly regained control by Sunday evening but officials said there were still clashes

FM says key areas of policy focus would be farming, social reforms, infrastructure and recapitalising banking system

Prostitution is illegal in Indonesia but rampant in most major cities

Doctors and emergency workers in war-ravaged Syria typically work around the clock in fraught conditions

PM Modi has made it priority to boost India's economic growth, but investors have raised concerns about pace of change

Warmbier said he had been encouraged in his mission by the secretive 'Z society' at the University of Virginia

Many party leaders hope Rubio will somehow overtake Trump before the party's nominating convention in July

Police Colonel Abdi Osman said the death toll was 30, with 40 others injured

Australian Cardinal George Pell has become the highest-ranking Vatican official to testify on Church abuse

Tehran announced last week assistance would be offered to families of Palestinians killed in the wave of violence

The bombings were the deadliest attacks to hit Iraq's capital this year

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said that several air strikes hit central and northern Syria on Sunday

Police officers, from Prince William County in Virginia, were shot at a home they were called to in Lake Ridge

The pair, who were kept in jail for over 90 days, are still set to stand trial on the charges on March 25

The 10-year-old, who is second in line to the throne, was on holiday with her parents when the accident happened

The Security Council unanimously demanded on Friday that all parties to the conflict comply with terms of the plan

Syrian insurgents say air strikes were carried out by Russian war planes in support of Syria's government

Wearing open jackets and nothing underneath, the young women reading headlines are an unprecedented sight

China also plans to launch Shenzhou 11 spacecraft, which will carry two astronauts on board

More than 50,000 people including hundreds of celebrities have signed a petition against the proposals

Some 6,500 people were stuck at the Idomeni camp on Greece's northern border with Macedonia on Sunday

Departures from Egypt were a tiny part of the million people who arrived in Europe by sea last year

Nepal is hoping the April-May season will see climbers return to the world's highest peak

Troops from Pakistan,Turkey, Egypt, Morocco are among those participating in the 'Thunder of the North' exercise

US advisers suspected police of providing weapons, ammunition to Taliban

He has become a celebrity, with people travelling over the years to see him and hundreds visiting him in hospital

Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov says 26 missing miners were most likely also dead

It became a vital part of the FedEx fleet and in the 1990s, Donald Trump flew in his own personal 727