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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer announced the budget deal in the House. Schumer said that there were still a few final details to work out but all the principles of the agreement were in place.

South Africa's second city is now facing the prospect of having to turn the taps off under a so-called "Day Zero" scenario to conserve the city's remaining water supplies.

Yemeni Nobel Peace laureate Tawakkol Karman called for an end to what she says is a military occupation of her country by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), powerful Arab states she accuses of repressing democratic change in the region.

Sweden, the European Union and the United States have called for Gui Minhai's release, but Chinese authorities have given scant information about Gui's legal status.

Washington has previously said it won't seek to initiate contact with North Koreans attending the South Korean games, but it does want talks with Kim Jong-Un in an effort to get him to abandon his nuclear program.

Tens of thousands of Chinese nationals have come to Pakistan, but the new arrivals face dangers, creating a headache for Pakistani security officials.

President Trump last week used his first State of the Union address to push for the merit-based immigration system that admits skilled people, a proposal that could benefit technology professionals from countries like India.

Douglas Haig has acknowledged selling 720 rounds of tracer ammunition to Paddock in the weeks before the shooting that killed 58 people.

Beijing fears that exiled Uighur members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) are passing through the Wakhan into tense Xinjiang region to carry out attacks.

The speech comes as some 700,000 immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children, the so-called "Dreamers," risk losing their protected status while the White House and Congress struggle to reach a deal on their fate.

The court holding trial in graft cases against Sharif and his family decided that the supplementary case would be made part of the record in the Avenfield flats case.

CIA chief Mike Pompeo said that he expects the Russians will continue to try and meddle into the US vote, but is also confident that the country will be able to have a free and fair election.

Some of the attackers at the Marshal Fahim Military Academy have been killed, an Afghan security source said, adding the gunmen had not managed to enter the academy.

The US Air Force awarded Boeing a $23.6 million contract in December to replace two of the five "cold chiller units" aboard the aircraft used by President Donald Trump.

Prince Alwaleed was confined in Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton hotel for more than two months along with dozens of other suspects, part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's bold plan to consolidate control and reform oil superpower Saudi Arabia.

Assange, 46, has been holed up in the embassy since 2012 after skipping bail to avoid extradition to Sweden over an allegation of rape, which he denies.