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The timing of the election has also been complicated by talks under way between US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and representatives of the Taliban aimed at launching a full peace process to end the war in Afghanistan.

Sharif was sentenced to seven years in jail in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills case but acquitted him in the Flagship Investment case. The accountability court had also barred Sharif from holding public office for 10 years after completing his sentence.

Swileh had been trying to get a visa since 2017, as citizens from Yemen were restricted to enter US under President Trump's travel ban. "My wife is calling me every day wanting to kiss and hold her son for the one last time," Hassan said.

These stores are anything but secret. They are well marked, open to walk-ins and distribute their own membership cards to reward regular customers.

Richard Overton's longevity and his status as the oldest living American veteran of World War II made him a celebrity of sorts over the past few years.

A video shows Ahmed laughing while touching the genitals of a monkey at a pet shop in the Nile Delta city and making sexual innuendos as people around her chuckle.

Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and a former US senator and secretary of state, has topped the list 22 times including the past 17 years in a row.

The accident occurred about 9.30 am (local time) Thursday when the vehicle slammed through a railing on the one-lane bridge at Skeidararsandur, a vast sand plain in southern Iceland. The car landed on a rocky river bank.

With the opposition Democrats refusing to approve the necessary funds for the proposed wall, the federal government has been under a partial government shutdown for four days now.

Qureshi, who arrived in Moscow on the last leg of his four-nation tour, met Lavrov and the two leaders held in-depth talks on various bilateral and regional issues, including recent developments concerning the Afghan peace process.

It occurred two days after Etna, Europe's highest and most active volcano, erupted, sending a huge column of ash into the sky and causing the temporary closure of Catania airport on Sicily's eastern coast.

22-year-old Otto Warmbier was arrested in North Korea in January 2016 for attempted theft. He died days after returning to the United States in a coma

It is a customary practice between the two neighbouring nations to award the honorary title to each other's army chief. President Ram Nath Kovind will be doing the honours at an event scheduled to be held at Rashtrapati Bhawan.

The satellite was launched from a Long March 11 carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in north-western China and is the first in the Hongyun project planned by China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp (CASIC).

The entire US government on Friday braced for an imminent shutdown because of the stalemate between the White House and the opposition Democrats on funding of the border wall.

Services had resumed at Britain's second busiest airport early on Friday after suffering its worst disruption since a volcanic ash cloud grounded flights across much of Europe in 2010. Then just 11 hours later they were halted again after reports of anoth...