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Director of the Hajj and Umrah Public Administration says numbers show an increase of 49% from last year

Links between Salhi and a known French extremist in Syria discovered during investigation, says French prosecutor

Shahin has been shattering long-held views about Muslims but still remains true to her religious traditions

Senators express serious concerns about transparency and accountability of country’s judicial system

Interior ministry spokesperson says it was a suicide car bomber targeting a convoy of foreign forces in Kabul

Sources say car bomb targeted Huthi rebel chief brothers during a gathering to mourn death of a family member

OCHA head says humanitarian staff is being downsized due to efforts by local government and civil society groups

Police Commissioner says hiring practices being overhauled to reflect changing city demographics

Women were accused of 'witchcraft and sorcery'

Anisa Rasouli is the only female nominated to the nine-member bench

Attacker detonates a lorry loaded with explosives at the gate of the police headquarters in Lashkar Gah

Air force chief says so far 49 bodies have been recovered and taken to hospital

World governments will try to forge a new global accord to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius as of 2020

Solo US operations are legal under a bilateral security agreement the two nations signed last year

France has asked its firms to prepare a return to Iran to renew long history of commercial, political and social links

Train was travelling from Tokyo towards Osaka, with around 1,000 passengers on board, when fire broke out near Odawara

Fidayee Mahaz says it has no objection to group’s operations

Says ISIL is not an 'Islamic State', rather it is an appalling, barbarous regime

Representatives of 57 founding members participating including Ishaq Dar

US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Monday it was too soon to tell if a nuclear deal with Iran is possible

Over 500 suspects arrested, over 2.8 tonnes of cocaine and hundreds of vehicles seized in operations

IS is adept at exploiting vulnerabilities with its puritanical message in Gulf Arab states where inequalities persist

"I feel like I'm voting for sudden death or slow death"

Merkel says if "capability to find compromises is lost, then Europe is lost"

China Mobile added 80 million 4G connections in the first five months of the year

College introdcues a uniform comprising of a shalwar, churidar bottom, and an overcoat

The Beijing Times reports 962 kilometres have melted away over the centuries

Witnesses say one of the charred vehicles belonged to prosecutor, Hisham Barakat, who has been taken to hospital

Several mosques being investigated for inciting terrorism and if found to be doing so, "will be shut down"

Hashemi was found guilty of stabbing to death Ibolya Ryan in a shopping mall toilet

Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and Muslims march through Rome to the Vatican

There are people in Iraq and Syria who are plotting to carry out terrible acts in Britain, says Cameron

Greece has less than 48 hours to pay back 1.6 billion euros ($1.77 billion) of International Monetary Fund loans

Najibullah Najibi, a spokesperson for the army confirms the attack

Adnan was detained a year ago, shortly after the kidnapping and murder of three young Israelis

Activist vessel forced towards an Israeli port to prevent intended breach Gaza Strip maritime blockade

David Sweat was serving a life sentence without parole for murdering a sheriff's deputy in New York state

Queen Elizabeth II sent condolences to that relatives of victims of a mass shooting that killed at least 38

US forces spokesperson says targeted militants were threatening international coalition forces near the eastern border

Scene turned violent when participants denounced "the fascism" of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Iran and the US admits during tense talks on Sunday that they are highly likely to miss a looming deadline

The capsule blasted off at 10:21am (1421 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, atop the Falcon 9 rocket

Move prompted an online petition that received 1,000 signatures within 26 hours

Kuwait's interior ministry says attacker entered country through Kuwait Airport at dawn of the same day of bombing

Supermarket staff across the country are being called out for religious blunders

Says would petition Russia's telecoms oversight agency, FSB security service and President Putin if it does not help

Tens of thousands of people were marooned on higher ground as flood waters submerged areas

British foreign minister says there will still be very big challenges even if the deal is done

Modi says Suresh Raina, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja are involved in taking bribes from an Indian real-estate tycoon

Confession came after it emerged the married father-of-three sent a gruesome selfie of himself and the severed head