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The Counter Terrorism Department had registered 23 FIRs against Saeed and his accomplices on the charges of terror financing in different cities of Punjab province and arrested him on July 17.

Global Head Kenneth Roth said he was blocked at Hong Kong airport from entering for the first time, having entered freely in the past. The organisation was scheduled to release its World Report 2020 in Hong Kong on Wednesday.

There was no immediate report in Iranian state-run media on the incident near Azadi, or Freedom, Square in Tehran on Sunday night after a call went up for protests there.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a memorial event in Edmonton that "this tragedy struck our Iranian-Canadian community, leaving cities like Edmonton reeling, but this was truly a Canadian tragedy."

The Iranian Guards' commander, Hossein Salami, told parliament, referring to last Wednesday's missile operation that the aim was not to kill enemy soldiers and it was not important.

While cross-border terrorism and criminal activities continue to be the major causes of concern for India, China has in the past complained about the Tibetans' movement via Nepal.

The mass abduction occurred in early December, one student told AFP, but officials waited until Saturday to acknowledge it.

The operator had mistaken the Boeing 737 for a "cruise missile" and only had 10 seconds to decide whether to fire, said Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh, the Guards' aerospace commander.

A blast in the Quetta mosque during Friday prayers killed at least 15 people and left 20 others injured in the restive Balochistan province of Pakistan.

Kiev sent around 50 experts to Iran to participate in the probe after Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 went down near Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the new sanctions will target eight senior Iranian officials involved in "destabilising" activities in the Middle East as well as Tuesday's missile strike.

The prosecutor said the driver received potentially fatal wounds to the lower torso, to the neck, to his arms and upper right leg. An investigation has been launched.

The signing will cap a nearly two-year spat that threatened to throttle the global economy as the two countries exchanged tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of two-way trade.

Experts say a pattern of dry spells followed by heavy rain, and larger than usual spring snowmelts is putting Bamiyan valley's historic art and architecture at risk of destruction.

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper's comments came after Iran fired a volley of ballistic missiles Wednesday into two bases in Iraq that house US troops, in response to Soleimani's killing.

The kids were part of a group throwing snowballs at passing cars Saturday evening in Milwaukee, a city of about half a million people 145 kilometers north of Chicago.