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Police flooded the city and authorities blocked off key roads around the west Kabul venue of the so-called "loya jirga" -- where some 3,000 tribal elders, religious figures and politicians from across Afghanistan are gathering over four days to discuss po...

Another 12 foreigners remain unaccounted for and could be among still unidentified bodies at Colombo's police morgue, the Lankan government said.

Erroneous AOA sensor readings that led to aggressive nose-down inputs by a computer have been linked to deadly 737 MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

The head of Compagnons du Devoir association, Jean-Claude Bellanger, had earlier alerted the French government about a lack of manpower in the building trade, which could slow down Notre-Dame's reconstruction.

Security across Sri Lanka has been ramped up, with scores of suspected Islamists arrested since the April 21 attacks on hotels and churches that killed over 250 people, including 40 foreign nationals.

The driver, 34-year-old Isaiah Peoples, reportedly targeted the family solely on their appearance, according to police, who are now treating the case as a 'hate crime'.

With investors betting Tesla will soon raise capital, the stock has fallen 13% for the week to its lowest level since January 2017, before the launch of the Model 3 sedan aimed at making the electric car maker profitable.

Xi Jinping made his remarks at a summit on his signature foreign policy, which aims to reinvent the ancient Silk Road to connect Asia to Europe and Africa through massive investments in maritime, road and rail projects.

Many of the Muslims fleeing Negombo belong to the Ahmadi community, who had been hounded out of Pakistan years ago after their sect was declared non-Muslim.

The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the coordinated attacks on three churches and four hotels.

Mohd Faiz was taken into custody by the National Investigation Agency, making him fourteenth accused allegedly linked to Harkat-Ul-Harb-E-Islam, an ISIS-inspired group, to be arrested, they said.

The 33-year old Imsath Ahmed Ibrahim and 31-year-old Ilham Ahmed Ibrahim are believed to have carried out the bombings at Cinnamon Grand and Shangri-La hotels in the capital city of Colombo

The decision extends a 15-day deadline set by the African Union last week for Sudan's Transitional Military Council (TMC) to hand over power to civilians or to be suspended from the grouping.

Donald Trump's previous trip to the UK in July 2018 was billed as a working visit.

Fifty people were killed in shooting attacks on two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch on March 15.

Shedding some light on the Buddhist organisations becoming more and more anti-Islamic, former diplomat G Parthasarathy added that the phenomenon also existed in other Buddhist countries like Myanmar and Thailand.