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Wang Ching-yu is accused of overpowering the mother of the child and beheading the young girl with a kitchen knife

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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani also flew in to Tehran on Monday for the signing of a tripartite agreement

Militant group Hizb-ul-Mujahideen claimed the attacks, but there was no official confirmation it was responsible

Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain risked sparking a 'do-it-yourself recession' by voting to leave the bloc

At least one of the animals last week dragged a teenager from his village while he was sleeping and killed him

Direct negotiations with the Palestinians are "the only way to proceed to peace," Netanyahu says

Police say 21 Rohingya fled a detention centre at about 1 am after sawing through an iron bar in their communal cell

Seven bombs, most of them suicide attacks, hit Jableh and Tartus almost simultaneously

Pakistani officials say the Taliban leader had just returned from Iran when his vehicle was attacked in Balochistan

Yildirim chosen by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) as its chairman, replacing Ahmet Davutoglu

India's National Green Tribunal, which hears cases related to environmental protection, raised the issue

Round-the-clock services were due to start last year but were delayed by disagreement between unions and authorities

Greece plans a police operation to evacuate the migrant camp of Idomeni on its border with Macedonia

The climber reached the 8,849-metre summit on Saturday but collapsed while descending the Hillary Step ice wall

Footage shows sharks ripping giant humpback whale carcass to shreds, leaving a trail of crimson water

Buddhist nationalists have staged protests across the country against using the term Rohingya

'The reason I remain confident is it's the right thing to do' Obama tells reporters

No militant group has claimed the attack

United States and Vietnam are warily eyeing China's military build-up in the disputed South China Sea

The term limit amendment applies only to Rakhmon, owing to his 'Leader of the Nation' status

Even for the middle class, most of it sliding into poverty, hamburgers and hotels are out-of-reach excesses

The authenticity of the audio clip, purporting to be from Abu Muhammad al Adnani could not be verified

Vietnam has long been calling for arms embargo to be lifted, arguing that buying weapons for self-defence is normal

US president confirms that Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a US air strike

The shuttle, about one sixth the size of a usual one, was meant to reach an altitude of 70 km before gliding back down

The Taliban have not yet officially confirmed that Mansoor was killed

The over 60 heads of state and government gathered for the two-day summit convened by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

The fast-moving flows incinerated homes and left livestock blackened and peeling

Canada has welcomed more than 26,000 Syrian refugees following a campaign pledge by Trudeau

Separatist leaders accuse New Delhi of keeping Kashmiris under the heel of up to 750,000 security forces

The fire started late at night, meaning many of the children were asleep and unable to escape

The Communist country restricts access to foreign websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter

'It's important to recognise that in the midst of war, leaders make all kinds of decisions' Obama says

'Marxism and religion don't contradict each other, other theories can help us better understand our own faith'

He will meet both President Hassan Rouhani and the Islamic republic's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday

Binali Yildirim, 60, won all the votes from the 1,405 delegates at an extraordinary party congress

The rebels were hiding on a hilltop and launched the attack before escaping with several AK-47 rifles from troopers

Autopsy and toxicology results have yet to be released

Haqqani is widely seen by US and Afghan officials as the most dangerous warlord in Taliban insurgency

The hijab is becoming an increasingly sensitive issue in Iran as women step up their campaign against it

After applying in 1987, Turkey began EU accession talks in 2005

'This is not the time to cut resources, the world has got to ante up at much higher level than is the case right now'

Supporters of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr broke into the Green Zone and stormed the premier's office on Friday

In December Cameron called Trump 'divisive, stupid and wrong'

With Brazil in the midst of a Zika outbreak, safe sex is an even higher priority

Decision by Turkish legislature to strip scores of lawmakers of parliamentary immunity would have serious consequences

'They just collapsed individually. They did not know each other. They were all in different places at the time'

Disaster management chief says thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed and 24 people had been killed in total

Khan pointed out that both the UK and the US had seen “huge benefits” from immigration