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Sharif, 67, stepped down after a Supreme Court bench disqualified him on July 28 from continuing in his office for dishonesty in the Panama Papers case.

The court took the decision after it "reviewed requests to stop the referendum".

The latest wave of violence in western Myanmar's Rakhine State began on August 25, when Rohingya insurgents attacked police posts and an army camp, killing about 12 people.

Begum Kulsoom won the NA-120 seat in a close contest with cricket-turned-politician Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf candidate Yasmin Rashid.

India has identified Azhar as the mastermind of the Pathankot terror attack on January 2, 2016. It has also blamed his brother Rauf and five others for carrying out the attack in which seven Indian soldiers.

The Milli Muslim League party loyal to Hafiz Saeed, who has a $10 million US bounty on his head, has little chance of seeing its favoured candidate win the seat vacated when Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif was removed from office by the Supreme Cour...

The man attacked two women with a hammer in a town in central France today before fleeing the scene, in an apparent hate attack

Labeling Manning an "American traitor," Mike Pompeo said in a statement that his conscience would not allow him to "betray the trust" of the Central Intelligence Agency staff by appearing to support Harvard's decision by joining the event.

Citizens in earthquake-prone Japan are well-drilled in seeking cover when emergency strikes but with only a matter of minutes from launch to impact, several residents voiced a feeling of helplessness.

A diplomatic feud that erupted over the summer between Qatar and some Arab neighbours has inflamed citizens on both sides, with social media becoming a platform for vitriolic exchanges.

Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to reporters accompanying him on a trip to Latin America before his plane left Tel Aviv for Argentina on Sunday night. He will also visit Colombia and Mexico before heading to New York.

Prince Charles, 68, broke the record of Queen Victoria’s oldest son Albert, who went on to become King Edward VII after holding the title of Prince of Wales for more than 59 years before becoming monarch.

Two years later, Kim Jong-un ordered the execution of his uncle Jang Song Thaek, the country's chief interlocutor with China and a relatively reform-minded official in the hermetic state.

The Rochester Institute of Technology's slide featured the Winnie the Pooh character Roo, using the kangaroo character's name as an acronym about masturbation.

In a phone call with Qatar’s ruling emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Trump said he wanted to help Qatar and its Arab neighbors resolve the row that has upended any sense of Gulf unity, suggesting a possible White House summit among leaders.

The United States is deeply concerned about the troubling situation in Burma's northern Rakhine state, said the State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert.