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Flies buzz around human remains to poke through the dusty earth in the Iraqi town of Dhuluiyah, 90 kilometres (55 miles) north of Baghdad, at a hastily-dug pit containing the bodies of dozens of IS fighters killed in 2015.

Thomas de Maiziere pointed out that All Saints' Day was only a public holiday in Germany's Catholic regions and added: "In places where there are many Muslims, why can't we think about introducing a Muslim public holiday?"

Emmanuel Macron told Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that France remained committed to the 2015 nuclear agreement which, besides the United States, was also negotiated with Britain, China, Russia and Germany.

"If we allow Catalonia — though it's not our business — to separate itself from Spain, others will do the same. And I wouldn't like to have that," Jean-Claude Juncker said in a speech to students in his native Luxembourg.

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had registered three cases of corruption and money laundering against Sharif, his family members and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in the Islamabad Accountability Court after the Supreme Court disqualified Sharif, 67,...

"The prime minister instructed the foreign ministry to prepare Israel's withdrawal from the organisation alongside the United States," Netanyahu's office said in a statement.

Eric Hargan is currently deputy secretary of HHS and earlier served on Trump's transition team for HHS.

"I think they prevented a thousand deaths, and I think it's important for the American public to understand that," Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said on Monday.

The pledge came a week before President Donald Trump announces a final decision on how he wants to contain the Islamic Republic.

The public spat between the former allies could also undermine Donald Trump's legislative agenda, with Corker's vote vital to the fate of the Iran nuclear deal and passing tax reform.

The American embassy in Ankara said on Saturday that "recent events" forced the US government to reassess Turkey's "commitment" to the security of US mission services and personnel in the country.

Those punished for graft since 2013 include 648,000 village-level officials and most crimes were related to small scale corruption, said the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) on Sunday.

Moeed Yusuf, a senior expert on Pakistan at the United States Institute of Peace, a top American thin-tank funded by the Congress said that the default position in Islamabad and Washington was very sceptical of other's intentions.

Weeks after Donald Trump angrily accused Islamabad of providing safe haven to 'agents of chaos,' Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to depart for Pakistan late this month.

Spain's representative in northeast Catalonia made the apology just as Catalonia's secessionist leader appeared to inch away from a plan to declare independence as early as Monday.

Jeff Sessions called the interpretation a "conclusion of law, not policy," and said the move should not be construed to condone mistreatment of transgender people.