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Baloch, the uncrowned king of Karachi’s notorious Lyari slums, had also visited Chaman and Chabahar in Iran – areas where Jadhav had operated his dhow business – claimed Pakistan media.

Almost 1,500 economists have addressed a letter to President Donald Trump and top congressional leaders stressing the importance of immigrants for economic growth.

A Muslim woman's hijab was allegedly ripped off in the US by a man who she claimed beat her "like an animal" and repeatedly stepped on her head, prompting calls for a hate crime probe.

Hundreds gathered Monday to mourn 45 Egyptian Christians killed in jihadist bombings just a week before Easter, after Cairo declared a state of emergency following the attacks on two churches.

Ahead of the first round of France's highly unpredictable presidential election on April 23, Le Pen's centrist rival Emmanuel Macron said her comments were "a serious mistake".

It came as the US on Thursday night struck the Shairat airbase in a response to the chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians in Idlib province.

US President Donald Trump ditched his trademark anti-China bombast, hailing an "outstanding" relationship with counterpart Xi Jinping at the end of a superpower summit Friday overshadowed by events in Syria.

The massive strike -- US President Donald Trump's biggest military decision since taking office -- marked a dramatic escalation in American involvement in Syria's six-year civil war.

The US State Department on Friday declared a senior commander of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Abu Anas al-Ghandour, a "specially designated global terrorist," adding his name to its economic sanctions blacklist.

Civilians often have been casualties in this long-chaotic Horn of Africa country. Now hundreds of thousands of Somalis are on the move as a drought threatens roughly half of the country's population of 12 million.

Nikki Haley, the tough-talking and blunt US Ambassador to the UN, was heckled during an annual summit on women as she spoke about President Donald Trump and Russia.

Aung San Suu Kyi has denied security forces have carried out ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, speaking to the BBC after the UN rights council agreed to investigate allegations of rape, murder and torture against the army.

The threat of a terror group trying to blow up an aircraft mid-flight is constant, he told a Senate hearing on border security, suggesting that the current ban might not have gone far enough.

Ivanka Trump says that when she disagrees with her father, "he knows it, and I express myself with total candor."

A stunning 59.6 carat diamond known as the "Pink Star" sold for $ 71.2 million at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong, setting a new world record for any diamond or jewel, according to the auction house.

Aw Kombe also said the pirates were in touch with businessmen in Kismayu over releasing the vessel, Al Kausar.