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While addressing a Defence Day gathering in Rawalpindi on Friday night, Pakistan army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa said his country wants to address the Kashmir issue through dialogue.

The move by Beijing and Islamabad is seen as an apparent attempt to counter US President Donald Trump's tough policy against the Taliban and Pakistan which was announced last month as part of America's new Afghanistan and South Asia policy.

The agency said its investigation would rely on the evidence collected by a Supreme Court-appointed six-man panel that was investigating the Sharif family's wealth and included officers from powerful military intelligence agencies.

Some of the products found in the flat in Villejuif could be used to make the unstable explosive TATP, one source close to the investigation said.

The Bashar al-Assad government has repeatedly denied using chemical weapons. It said its strikes in Khan Sheikhoun hit a weapons depot belonging to rebel forces, a claim dismissed by the U.N. investigator.

Bangladesh will on Wednesday formally lodge a protest against the laying of land mines so close to the border, said the source.

A spokesman for President Tayyip Erdogan, who has described the violence against Rohingya Muslims there as genocide, said the deliveries were approved after Erdogan spoke by phone with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday.

France, which has close ties with Egypt and the United Arab Emirates while also being a major arms supplier to Qatar and a key ally of Saudi Arabia, has been relatively discreet on the crisis, largely sticking to calls for calm.

This is from Monday’s BRICS declaration - ‘We, in this regard, express concern on the security situation in the region and violence caused by the Taliban, ISIL/DAISH, Al-Qaida and its affiliates including Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement, Islamic Moveme...

India had made a major push at last year's Goa summit to get Pakistan and its terror outfits find mention in the declaration but had failed. The matter was discussed in the plenary but China is believed to have blocked a mention of LeT and JeM.

North Korea on Sunday carried out its most powerful nuclear test to date, claiming to have developed an advanced hydrogen bomb that could sit atop an intercontinental ballistic missile.

The blaze has so far destroyed one house and forced the evacuation of nearly 500 homes in various parts of the city and neighboring Glendale.

About 58,600 Rohingya have fled the violence into Bangladesh from Myanmar, according to UN refugee agency UNHCR, as aid workers there struggle to cope.

The Union has made outline agreement on the rights of 4.5 million expatriates, border arrangements on Ireland and settling Britain's financial obligations as a condition for discussing a transition to a free trade pact.

The Trump administration said the move constituted its response to the Kremlin's "unwarranted and detrimental" decision to force the U.S. to cut its diplomatic staff in Russia.

The Punjab Home Department issued an order on July 28 under which the detention of Saeed and his four aides - Abdullah Ubaid, Malik Zafar Iqbal, Abdul Rehman Abid and Qazi Kashif Hussain -- was extended for another 60 days.