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The truce excludes IS and al-Qaida-linked militants. Uncertainties are prevailing about the truce, which is now in its seventh day.

Brahumdagh, grandson of slain Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, is a survivor of the attack on a BRP hideout in Kohlu near Quetta in 2006 launched by Pakistani Army in which his grandfather was killed.

At least three policemen were killed on Sunday in Pakistan by unidentified gunmen in an ambush.

In Florida, likely voters split 47 per cent for Trump to 44 per cent for Clinton.

Melania Trump has released a letter from her immigration attorney aimed at settling questions about whether she properly followed immigration law when she came to the US in 1996.

Donald Trump sees Russian President Vladimir Putin as his role model, US President Barack Obama has alleged, saying this makes Republican presidential candidate not fit for the White House.

Muslims from around the world on Monday returned to the scene of last year's deadly stampede to perform a stoning ritual near Mecca that is the final major rite of the hajj.

An explosion rocked the eastern Turkish city of Van on Monday, leaving several people wounded, state-run Anadolu news agency reported.

Police on Monday said they have "contained" the situation at the Sikh temple in the West Midlands region of England after an eight-hour standoff.

The offices of La Jornada newspaper in Ciudad del Este were hit by 18 bullets but nobody was hurt: Report

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday told his South Korean counterpart Park Geun-hye that Beijing opposes the US deployment of THAAD anti-missile system in Seoul.

Uzbek President Islam Karimov has died after suffering a stroke at the age of 78.

China is tightening its regulation of online maps to clarify its territorial claims.

Kirby was responding to a question on China's reaction the defence pact between India and the US that will enable their militaries to use each other's assets and bases for repair and replenishment of supplies.

At least two rivers swollen by the typhoon have broken through embankments, flooding areas in northern Japan.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has opened up a significant lead of seven percentage points over her Republican rival Donald Trump, a latest poll has said, even as other surveys indicated a tightening race in the key states of Pennsylvania...