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The down-to-the-wire deal offers only a temporary fix.

Some 2.1 million Pakistanis are thought to be enslaved, especially children and bonded labourers.

Malala would become only the sixth person ever to be offered honorary Canadian citizenship.

Iran hints at including the option of snap checks on nuclear facility in proposed offer.

Japanese troops have also sent three helicopters and several servicemen to Oshima to help with the rescue effort.

US Senators reach deal to keep borrowing till February, 2014 and avert hitting a deadline on its debt limit.

Clinton handed a £80 ticket for not buying parking metering worth £3.30 for her Mercedes.

Indian National Security Adviser says enemies do not want India to talk to saner elements in Pakistan.

Taliban insisted that Mullah Baradar has not yet been allowed to rejoin family despite repeated claims by Pakistan.

According to EU law, animals in Lithuania and other member countries must be stunned before slaughter.

Trade union wing of militant group informed police that Sami had overstayed.

Meeting with US President Obama next week is deemed first true diplomatic test for Nawaz so far.

Indian shelling started at seven in the morning and hit the civilian population of Datoot village.

Presidential candidates alarmed by the scale of voter cards trade, question how legitimate the election will be.

The cyclone has destroyed some 500,000 homes in Ganjam, while businesses and crops have also been affected badly.

If Congress does not raise the $16.7 trillion debt ceiling, US government could start defaulting on its obligations.

Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif presents Iran's positions to the P5+1 group.

Blast in the town of Darkush kills at least 27 people, including three children and a woman.

The bomb was found in a Jeep Cherokee parked in the Mamora area, in southern suburbs of Beirut.

The blast near a Sunni mosque in the northern city of Kirkuk also wounded 22 people, sources said.

At least 18 other people have been wounded.

Pakistani arrested from his flat in Peckham, south-east London.

125-year-old newspaper starts a new journey.

Says onus is now on the government to grasp the initiative put forward by Karzai.

Says Islam is a religion that strictly forbids terrorism.

Obama’s point-man James Dobbins discusses Nawaz’s scheduled US trip.

Arafat's remains were exhumed in November 2012 and samples taken, partly to investigate whether he had been poisoned.

India summoned the Pakistani deputy envoy to the Ministry of External Affairs on Monday.

The Prize went to the global chemical weapons watchdog, working in Syria to destroy the regime's chemical arsenal.

US and India agreed to step up cooperation to prevent the financing of extremist movements in Pakistan.

Indian police files complaint against Miss Universe for an unauthorised photo shoot at the Taj Mahal.

Officials said they expected around 1.5 million pilgrims to descend on the site.

Stampede in a temple in Ratangarh, during the festival of Navratri, injures 133.

Israel freezes the shipment of building materials into Gaza out of security concerns.

US faces a potentially devastating sovereign debt default as senators fail to agree on terms to reopen the government.

Group of international judges and experts to set up a special court, to prosecute crimes against victims of the war.

The riot was sparked by the killing of an ethnic Russian allegedly by a Muslim migrant from the Caucasus.

Meeting will be the first such negotiations to resolve the dispute over Iran's nuclear drive since Rouhani took office

Unanimous decision by 3 Muslim judges overturned a 2009 ruling by a lower court that allowed the usage.

Rai covered 6,387 km on foot to make his Hajj pilgrimage to Makkah.

While WHO, health experts issue warning, authorities do not know how the virus spreads.

The tower is the tallest structure in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world.

Armed men seize six Red Cross, one Syrian Arab Red Crescent workers from Idlib province.

Pledges to implement PM Nawaz’s foreign policy goal of building regional ties.

Saudi Arabia has deployed more than 100,000 troops to ensure the safety of the pilgrims.

DGMOs to work out mechanism to avoid repeat of ceasefire violations.

Summer temperatures, winter frosts, torrential monsoon rains and humid air likely to wipe the ruins away.

An agreement needs to be reached, at least on stopping exchanges across the LoC.

Taliban leader warns that the strategic agreement will be followed by 'grave consequences'.

The stampede was triggered by rumours that the bridge might collapse after being hit by a heavy vehicle.