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The White House also said that for the first time, the US is holding Pakistan accountable for its actions.

The 28 on trial were charged with belonging to an outlawed group linked to Islamic State group, disrupting public order, possession of weapons and endangering society among other charges.

Gill Gurjant Singh, 25, and Surjeet Singh, 29, were each sentenced to 15 months in prison for the crime while Jugraj Singh, 33, was jailed for eight months for committing an indecent act on the Singaporean minor.

Last year Australia arrested two men — Khaled Khayat and Mahmoud Khayat — and charged them with plotting to bring down an Etihad Airways passenger jet destined to fly to Abu Dhabi from Sydney.

The US vice president did not interact with the North Koreans even though he was seated in the same box as them at the opening ceremony of the Games earlier this month -- nor did he shake hands with the North's ceremonial head of state Kim Yong Nam during...

On Friday, the People's Liberation Army posted photos and a story on rescue training exercises taking place in the East Indian Ocean on its official Twitter-like Weibo account.

The unnamed official was quoted as saying the plan involving the four regional partners was still "nascent" and "won't be ripe enough to be announced' during Australian Prime Minister Turnbull's visit to the United States later this week.

Roland van Hauwermeiren, who led Oxfam's team in Haiti, was one of three staff members who resigned over allegations they hired young sex workers following the devastating 2010 earthquake there.

An Olympic-driven thaw in relations between Kim Jong Un's nuclear-armed North Korean regime and South Korea has raised speculation that direct talks between Washington and Pyongyang could be on the horizon after months of sharp tension and heated rhetoric...

In a speech to Western leaders and officials in Munich, Theresa May promised that London would continue to lead military missions and share intelligence if Brussels agreed to a pact "effective from 2019", the year Britain is due to leave the bloc.

The gunman was identified as Nikolaus Cruz, who previously attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland and was expelled for unspecified disciplinary reasons, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said at a news briefing hours later.

US President Donald Trump was briefed on a shooting Wednesday outside the headquarters of the National Security Agency, a secretive spy agency responsible for global electronic eavesdropping, the White House said.

This will be the first visit to India by Hassan Rouhani after taking charge as the Iranian president in August 2013.

The ANC's secretary general, Ace Magashule, said the decision to recall Zuma - party-speak for 'remove from office' - was taken after "exhaustive discussions".

That's the question many Christians will face on Wednesday when Valentine's Day and the Ash Wednesday holiday marking the start of Lent fall on the same day for the first time since World War Two.

China claims nearly all of the resource-rich waterway and has been turning reefs and islets into islands and installing military facilities such as runways and equipment on them.