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The Taliban issued a statement saying they would not participate in a peace process with the government until foreign forces stop attacking their positions and leave the country.

Opposition Labour party MP Stella Creasy led a March in London demanding extradition of Indian supects.

China is revamping its military under a new initiative of President Xi to focus on winning local wars.

Powerful religious body that advises the Pakistan government on compatibility of laws with Islam declared the law to be "un-Islamic."

It will be the third annual meeting since the Nawaz Sharif government has come to power.

Kim called for the weapon to go into mass production as soon as possible and for it to be deployed to frontline units and coastal defence units.

The US president also expressed hope that a proposed cease-fire in Syria will lead to a political settlement to end the civil war and allow a more intense focus on IS.

Lee's 1960 novel, which earned her a Pulitzer Prize, came to define racial injustice in the Depression-era South and became standard reading in classrooms across the world.

Nepal Prime Minister K P Oli began his visit to India to strengthen friendly ties between the two countries.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said El Nino, which occurs every two to seven years, has "passed its peak" but ocean temperature rises in recent months proved its considerable impact.

By 2010, Baghdadi had risen to become head of the Islamic State in Iraq, a fore-runner of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

That study analysed health and risk factors such as air pollution that impacted 188 countries between 1990 and 2013.

It has now emerged that the Abdelhamid Abaaoud was accompanied by up to 90 IS recruits when he left Syria in 2015 to embark on attacks in Europe.

Nearly 340 people were rescued from the rubble in Tainan, the city hit worst by the quake.

The British economy was set to expand by 2.2 percent this year, down from the previous November prediction of 2.5 percent: BoE