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Khan, who focused on the Kashmir issue in his maiden address to the UN General Assembly, told his party workers at the airport here that whether the world is with the Kashmiris or not, we are standing with them.

The US State Department said it would allow the hospital visit request only if Iran released one of several US citizens it is currently "wrongfully detained".

Nearly 200 elephants are killed every year on the island, many by farmers after the animals stray onto their land.

Mark Zaid, a Washington lawyer who represents the whistleblower at the centre of an impeachment inquiry into Trump, declined to confirm the identity or occupation of his client.

The document's security assessment on China comes after a section on Japan's ally, the United States, the first time Beijing has achieved second place in the Defence White Paper and pushing North Korea into third position.

The announcement comes just two weeks after devastating attacks on Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure -- blamed by Washington on Iran -- which roiled global energy markets.

Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, has come under huge international pressure after the US-based writer was killed and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Khashoggi's body was never found.

As part of a deal with prosecutors, Ramones on Wednesday pleaded guilty to a lesser charge that he knew Rabago committed a civil rights violation but didn't inform authorities about it.

Pelosi has been the voice of restraint in the House, declining to take up the cause of impeachment as the House pursued its oversight of the administration in the aftermath of former special counsel Robert Mueller's report.

Speaking to a pressure group opposed to the Iranian regime on the sidelines of the United Nations, Pompeo said the actions were in response to violations of unilateral US sanctions.

The previous Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government had filed the treason case against the former army chief in 2013 over the imposition of extra-constitutional emergency in November 2007, which led to the confinement of a number of superior cour...

The final results from the September 17 vote gave the rightwing Likud 32 seats compared to Benny Gantz's centrist Blue and White's 33 in the 120-seat parliament.

In his annual 'state of the world address' to the General Assembly's gathering of heads of state and government, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the risk 'may not yet be large, but it is real.

In a recent development, a person has succumbed to EEE virus in Connecticut. The city health officials say this is the first person in the state that has died from a deadly mosquito-borne virus spreading throughout the Tri-state area.

Deutsche Bank, Citigroup and Barclays were among 130 banks to join the new framework on the eve of a United Nations summit in New York aimed at pushing companies and governments to act quickly to avert catastrophic global warming.

Law enforcement authorities and experts say the reasons for the increase in tips and heightened awareness of thwarted mass shootings vary.