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According to people close to Nawaz Sharif, the three-time premier, has a taste for classic Bollywood songs.

Oly Ilunga, who resigned as health minister in July after being removed as head of the country's Ebola response team, was detained while hiding in an apartment in the capital Kinshasa ahead of a bid to flee the country.

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A preliminary report on the incident said five crew members, including the captain, were sleeping in their quarters behind the wheelhouse on the second deck of the boat and another was asleep below deck with the passengers when the fire started.

Hans Christian Gram developed the technique to classify bacteria during his work with German microbiologist Karl Friedländer in the morgue of the city hospital in Berlin in 1884.

Garrett Marquis, Bolton's top spokesman, Sarah Tinsley, his communications director, and scheduler Christine Samuelian all resigned in what a source called an amicable fashion.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday that the law on sexual offenses against children includes text, images, films and three-dimensional representations such as dolls.

Beijing and Washington have been embroiled in a year-long trade war that has seen the two sides slap punitive tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars in two-way trade.

Japan had imposed tighter controls on exports of materials to South Korea used in smartphones following a diplomatic dispute over compensation for forced labourers during its occupation of Korea during World War II.

The acquittal of the man accused of assaulting his daughter sparked outrage with an online petition, which was signed by 47,000 people, being submitted to the justice ministry demanding that any sex without consent be defined as rape.

The informant reportedly confirmed to US intelligence that President Vladimir Putin directed Russia's meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, straining superpower relations and casting a cloud over Donald Trump's stunning victory.

Despite an agreement between the two countries in Nov 2017 to send back the Rohingya, virtually none of the 740,000 who fled Myanmar following an August 2017 military crackdown in Rakhine state have returned.

The total number of HIV cases in Pakistan has increased to 160,000 this year, a significant increase from 67,000 in 2010.

Kristalina Georgieva of Bulgaria, currently the bank's chief executive officer, is all but guaranteed to replace former Managing Director Christine Lagarde, who has been named to lead the European Central Bank.

Donald Trump said he had invited Taliban leaders and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani for talks at the Camp David presidential retreat on a draft deal that would see the US withdraw thousands of troops from its longest-ever war.

The 18-member cabinet led by Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, which includes four women, took oath at the presidential palace in Khartoum.