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President Donald Trump's vow to extend a hand of cooperation to Russian President Vladimir Putin has been met with resistance as skeptical lawmakers look to limit the president's leeway to go easy on Moscow over its meddling in the 2016 presidential elec...

Nawaz Sharif, who has been the prime minister of Pakistan for a record three time, faces the risk of being disqualified if the court finds him guilty of corruption and money laundering.

The council ruled that the sister of the boy should be handed over to the victim's brother to be raped. The punishment was carried out on July 17 after her family handed the girl over.

At its most basic, the Republican legislation is aimed at undoing Obamacare's unpopular mandates for most people to carry insurance and businesses to offer it.

The deceased was an aspiring make-up artist and a blog from a school media project described her as having worked in the make-up department of a thriller film.

In a statement released before congressional interviews, Jared Kushner insisted none of the contacts was improper. He also denied Russians finance any of his business in the private sector.

Violence flared between Israeli security forces and Palestinians who are demanding that Israel remove metal detectors installed outside the site after the attack.

The recent attacks reflect the Taliban's efforts to apply pressure on government troops and police across the country and not just in their strongholds in the south and east of Afghanistan.

Fifty-year-old Choudary was jailed for five and a half years in September 2016 for urging Muslims to support the Islamic State.

After nightfall, a Palestinian sneaked into a home in the Israeli settlement of Halamish in the West Bank and stabbed to death three Israelis. An Israeli news site said those killed were two men and a woman who were having dinner at the time.

Robert Mueller sent a document preservation request, asking White House staff to save "any subjects discussed in the course of the June 2016 meeting" and also "any decisions made regarding the recent disclosures about the June 2016 meeting".

Prominent democracy advocate Liu Xiaobo's death in custody triggered rage and frustration among the dissident community and a sense of hopelessness as they face hardened repression under China's President Xi Jinping.

The department instructed US diplomats to consider grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts and uncles, nephews and nieces and first cousins to meet the criteria for applicants from the six countries to receive a US visa.

Analysts said the 7,186,170 votes for the opposition across Venezuela and the country's diaspora around the world was an impressive show of support.

The army's next goal is to retake the town of Sukhna, a gateway to the eastern province of Deir Zor that borders Iraq and likely to be the militants' last major bastion in Syria if Raqqa falls

On July 15 last year, the coup plotters bombed the Turkey's parliament and other locations but their attempt failed.