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Maryam Nawaz, vice president of PML-N was arrested from the Kot Lakhpat jail on August 8 in connection with the Chaudhry Sugar Mills (CSM) case when she was on her way back from visiting her father.

On Wednesday, 175 victims of dengue were admitted to hospitals in Dhaka. The remaining 361 were reportedly hospitalised in nearby districts from Dhaka.

That was never going to be easy, and it got spectacularly harder on Tuesday, when the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that Boris Johnson acted illegally when he suspended Parliament just weeks before Britain is due to leave the EU on October 31.

Biden, the former vice president, has become swept up in a political furor over reports that Trump pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate Biden and his son.

Tensions have spiked between longtime foes, Tehran and Washington, since last year when Trump exited the nuclear pact and imposed sanctions on the Islamic republic that were lifted under the agreement.

UK PM Boris Johnson and EU Council Donald Tusk met on the sideline of the UN General Assembly as Britain races towards its October 31 departure without an exit agreement and the prospect of economic disruption.

The study, revealed Thursday by the Canadian public broadcaster CBC, was commissioned by Canadian authorities to scientists affiliated with the Dalhousie University and the Nova Scotia Health Authority, reports Efe news.

Two and a half years after the stabbing story was published, one of the brothers demanded that it be deleted online because it damaged his reputation.

Considered a rising star on Japan's political scene, Koizumi, 38, became the third youngest lawmaker to join a post-World War Two Japanese cabinet when Abe announced a reshuffle this month.

The state health and environmental management departments made the announcement Thursday to begin spraying two targeted areas on September 23.

While US and Saudi Arabia continue to blame Iran, the Shia majority nation has denied involvement in the Sept. 14 attack on Saudi oil facilities that was claimed by Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.

The world's two largest economies have been locked in a bruising trade war since Trump in March last year imposed tariff hikes of up to 25 per cent on USD 250 billion of Chinese goods.

Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said authorities confirmed the new case in a boy from Laguna province south of Manila after samples were found positive for the polio virus.

After marathon overnight talks dragging more than 18 hours, the coalition sealed a deal which covers a slew of measures from tackling emissions in the energy and industrial sectors, to incentives for zero-emission electric vehicles or public transport.

The bird population in the United States and Canada was probably around 10.1 billion nearly half a century ago and has fallen 29 per cent to about 7.2 billion birds, according to a study in Thursday's journal Science.

Indications are that Iran was behind the strikes but the United States will let Saudi Arabia announce who was responsible, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said on Thursday.