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The Makran trench is a seismically active zone in the Arabian Sea where one plate is inching beneath the other in a "subduction zone".

Mennel Ibtissem, a 22-year-old student who wears a head wrap, was one of the top contestants on The Voice, where her English and Arabic version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah caused a sensation.

South Korea, which is using the Pyeongchang Games to break the ice with North Korea, seated its presidential couple alongside US Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, with two of the North's most senior officials sitting in the row behind.

Parmjit Singh, a 44-year-old father of two high school students, was shot multiple times on Tuesday evening at the Hi Tech Quick Stop on Burnett Ferry Road, sheriff's officers said.

Barnaby Joyce, a practicing Catholic, is expecting a child with his former press secretary, his estranged wife confirmed this week.

The border wall was a signature issue for Trump in his 2016 presidential election campaign. He pledged that Mexico would pay for the wall, which the Mexican government has insisted it will not do.

South Korea's UN mission told the Security Council committee the delegation was expected to attend the opening ceremonies on Friday and stay until Sunday. The 15-member committee makes decisions by consensus.

Choi Young-mi, in her recent composition "Monster", described sexual harassment she suffered at the hands of a poet named "En". The character's details match those of Ko Un, a 84-year-old former Buddhist monk, one of South's most respected contemporary po...

Unidentified hackers stole $81 million from Bangladesh Bank's account at the New York Fed in February 2016, using fraudulent orders on the SWIFT payments system.

Until now, US forces had focused their activities in provinces such as Helmand - in the south - where the Taliban controls most of the territory, the eastern Nangarhar, a stronghold of the Islamic State terror group and Kunduz in the north.

The lawmakers alleged that Pakistan "knowingly" provides resources to terrorists.

In a four-page handwritten complaint seen by AFP Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen, says "I want to be heard" and claims to have been subjected to "psychological torture in solitary detention."

U.S. Ambassador to UN Nikki Haley said the United States will continue to fight for United Nations access for the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center and the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.

Sensex and Nifty have closed in the red with deep cuts, but way higher than the opening levels. The BSE Sensex, which saw the biggest intra-day volatility since November 2016, closed 561 points down at 34,195. The broader Nifty recovered 200 points to set...

The Iraq drawdown also follows the release of the Pentagon's National Defense Strategy that cited China's rapidly expanding military and an increasingly aggressive Russia as the US military's top national security priorities.

The accused is a Swiss citizen whose grandfather founded Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement.