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The US, which once operated sprawling bases in the country, now has a small number of Special Forces on the southern island of Mindanao to aid in counter-terrorism operations.

The chief minister directed the police and Rangers to begin an operation against madrassas harbouring terrorists.

In a statement issued by his office on Tuesday, Ban said he condemns the attack in which at least 61 people, mostly cadets, were killed and more than 100 people injured.

The US has condemned the terror attack on a police training centre in Quetta in which over 60 policemen have been killed.

Authorities in Pakistan have frozen bank accounts with more than Rs 400 million of over 5,100 terror suspects, including JeM chief Masood Azhar, who is under "protective custody" after the terror attack on the Pathankot airbase, officials said.

He said Pakistan has dismantled the terrorists' networks and even presently 200,000 troops remained deployed in the northern part of our country to completely eliminate the menace of terrorism from the country.

US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said she will no longer respond to her Republican rival Donald Trump and instead dedicate the final stretch of her campaign in discussing her proposals for the upcoming November 8 elections.

Japanese media reports say the first woman to climb Mount Everest has died.

The Russian and Syrian bombing raids in Aleppo have had horrific results with nearly 500 dead, while food rations are expected to run out by the end of the month, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.

Philippine authorities said they were assessing the extent of damage to infrastructure and crops, but confirmed that thousands of hectares of farmland were destroyed in northern provinces.

Will totally accept the results of presidential elections if I win, Republican candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday, hours after squaring off against Hillary Clinton in the third and final debate where he left the door open on a prolonged battle.

Donald Trump lashed out on Monday at Republicans who have tried to tone down his rhetoric about election fraud, calling his own party's leaders "so naive" and claiming without evidence that large-scale voter fraud is real.

In all major national polls, Clinton is leading Trump by more than seven points.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country is determined to take part in a possible operation to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State group, despite calls from Iraq for Turkey to withdraw its troops.

A suicide bombing targeting a funeral gathering in northern Baghdad Saturday killed at least 35 people and left another 63 wounded, Iraqi police and hospital officials said.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will address Indian-Americans at a charity event organised for Hindu victims of terrorism in New Jersey on Saturday.