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A senior Pakistani prosecutor has been accused of blackmailing dozens of Christians after he allegedly asked them to embrace Islam to avoid conviction in the killing of two Muslims in mass violence two years ago.

A federal judge in Hawaii decided Wednesday to extend his order blocking President Donald Trump's travel ban.

Five Al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists, who were plotting to target security agencies and important buildings, were on Thursday killed by security forces in Pakistan's Punjab province.

An official briefed on the probe told Reuters in Washington last week that the FBI believes North Korea was responsible for the heist.

Tropical Cyclone Debbie made landfall on Tuesday across the coast of northeast Australia, packing strong winds with gusts.

He also said that as an "officer of the Palestinian resistance" -- on whose behalf he staged a spectacular hostage-taking at OPEC in Vienna in 1975 -- he faced death if he divulged operational information.

United Airlines has been criticised on social media after it barred two girls from flying for wearing leggings.

A rebellion began Indian-American teen Indrani Das on her way to the brain research that got her the quarter-million-dollar Regeneron Science Talent Search award for high school students.

The brazen terror attack on British parliament which killed four people ended within 82 seconds and was carried out by Khalid Masood who acted alone, Scotland Yard confirmed today, conceding they may "never understand" the 52-year-old attacker's motive.

US President Donald Trump was rallying votes for his health care reform bill on Thursday but made a pit stop in the afternoon to meet with truck drivers and trucking executives.

The court ordered to confiscate his electronic equipment used in the crime, such as laptop, mobile phone, camera among others, the report said.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said that Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will be killed as nearly all of his deputies are now dead and it is "only a matter of time" that he meets the same fate.

The White House has said there is no evidence of a Trump-Russia collusion, hours after the FBI confirmed that it was probing Russia's meddling in last year's presidential polls, including possible links between the Trump campaign and Moscow.

The leader of Europe's largest economy and the U.S. president were expected to discuss funding for NATO and relations with Russia in their first meeting since Trump took office in January. Asked if they talked about NATO, Trump said the two leaders had di...

The Israeli military said it shot down one of numerous anti-aircraft missiles launched on Friday at its air force which was operating in Syria.

Two American judges have halted Donald Trump's revised travel ban on citizens of six Muslim-majority nations, stating that his own comments suggested religious bias, in a blow to the US President who has vowed to take the legal battle all the way up to th...