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Separately, Austrian tabloid newspaper Oesterreich said its website was brought down on Friday morning by a cyber attack "from Turkey", the latest in a series of similar incidents that appear to be connected to Vienna's spat with Ankara.

Hodeidah on the Red Sea is controlled by Iran-allied Houthi fighters who in 2014 overran Yemen's capital Sanaa and forced the Saudi-backed government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to flee into exile.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman met with China's premier on Friday, a day after the two nations signed a memorandum of understanding on investment cooperation valued at $65 billion.

The attack on Yahoo, disclosed last year, was one of the largest ever data breaches and at the time was blamed on a "nation-state" attacker.

The death toll from a landslide at Ethiopia's largest rubbish dump in the capital Addis Ababa climbed to 113 today, a city spokeswoman said.

Pakistan on Wednesday launched its first census in nearly two decades, with security high as thousands of enumerators backed by the military began the enormous, politically-charged count.

A retired Navy admiral was among nine high-ranking military officers arrested across the country in a burgeoning bribery scandal involving a Malaysian defense contractor nicknamed "Fat Leonard."

Employers may bar staff from wearing visible religious symbols, the European Union's top court ruled on Tuesday in its first decision on the issue of women wearing Islamic headscarves at work.

Chinese officials are issuing new warnings about the spectre of global religious extremism seeping into the country, following reports of fighters from China's Muslim minority fighting alongside militants in Syria and Iraq.

UNICEF said at least 255 children were killed in or near schools last year and 1.7 million youngsters are out of school. One of every three schools in Syria is unusable, some because armed groups occupy them. An additional 2.3 million Syrian children are...

India-born US attorney Preet Bharara was on Sunday "fired" by the Trump administration after he refused to quit following orders to the 46 Obama administration-appointed attorneys to resign immediately.

South Korea's Constitutional Court removed President Park Geun-hye from office on Friday over a graft scandal involving the country's conglomerates at a time of rising tensions with North Korea and China.

Pakistan on Wednesday executed five 'terrorists' convicted by special military courts for carrying out attacks on army and security forces.

Gunmen dressed as doctors stormed Afghanistan's largest military hospital on Tuesday, killing more than 30 people in a six-hour attack claimed by the Islamic State group as it makes inroads into the war-battered country.

The Trump Administration has sought 60 days to respond to a court case that challenges the decision of the previous Obama Administration to authorise spouses of H1B spouses to work in the US.

Mexico has objected to the United States about a potential plan to separate immigrant children from their parents if they try to illegally enter the US, an official said on Tuesday.