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In his first alleged message in nearly a year and following reports of his possible death, the elusive jihadist leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, called on his supporters to target the "media centres" of countries fighting his group.

The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), the country's computerised national identity cards (CNICs) issuing authority, on Wednesday informed this to the Lahore High Court (LHC) during the hearing of a plea of a transgender, Mian Aasia.

Kenya used two systems to transmit results from polling stations: paper forms and the electronic transmission of the vote tallies plus scanned copies of the forms. The court found flaws in both.

Speaking at the Sorbonne, French President Emmanuel Macron portrayed Europe as needing to relaunch itself, saying that on issues as diverse as asylum, border protection, corporate tax, intelligence sharing, defence and financial stability it needed much d...

In a petition filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC), the Pakistani intelligence officer requested the court to refer the matter to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for a thorough probe, Dawn reported.

Deputy leaders of both the ruling National and opposition Labour parties said they would be willing to give up the role of deputy prime minister to win the backing of Winston Peters, who leads New Zealand First.

In his classic grandiloquence, Trump brushed off the being "crazy" as "minor details" and said that Diana was "really beautiful, supermodel beautiful". The former princess of Wales had died in a car crash just three years ago.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has called a snap election, first came to power in 2006-2007. He returned as prime minister in 2012, a rare comeback in Japanese politics.

In a 25-page letter delivered to Pope Francis last month, the 62 signatories issued a "filial correction" to the pope — a measure they said hadn't been employed since the 14th century.

Merkel's conservative bloc won 32.5 percent of the vote, making them the largest parliamentary group, an exit poll for broadcaster ARD indicated. However, that was down from 41.5 percent in the last election, in 2013.

Among the heavyweights, Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union is the main conservative party, popular with the upper middle class and professionals.

All of North Korea's previous six nuclear tests registered as earthquakes of magnitude 4.3 or above. The last test on September 3 registered as a 6.3 magnitude quake.

Earlier this month the UN Security Council imposed its eighth set of sanctions on the North following its sixth nuclear test, which Pyongyang said was a hydrogen bomb.

Wang Yi also told the annual UN General Assembly China was committed to the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula and there should be no new nuclear weapons north or south of the border, or elsewhere in Northeast Asia.

Tensions have risen over North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile tests, despite intense pressure from world powers. The UN Security Council has unanimously imposed nine rounds of sanctions on North Korea since 2006, the latest earlier this month cappi...

Referring to North's leader Kim Jong-Un, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday told in the United Nations General Assembly hall "the Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime".