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Queen Elizabeth II, the world's longest reigning sovereign, today became the first British monarch to reach a Sapphire Jubilee, with 65 years on the throne.

Afghan envoy to India Shaida Mohammad Abdali on Monday said that US President Donald Trump's way to fight radicalisation and global terrorism was the only way to combat it.

Jamaat-ud-Dawah and Falah-e-Insaniyat on Sunday held rallies in parts of the country under the banner of Tehreek Azadi Jammu Kashmir (TAJK).

Upping the ante, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday said Kashmir is the "core dispute" between India and Pakistan and the dream of peace and prosperity of the people of the region will remain elusive without resolving the issue.

Iran announced it will take "reciprocal action" against US individuals and companies after President Donald Trump's administration on Friday imposed new sanctions on Tehran over its weapons procurement network.

The Washington Post reported the figure, citing a government attorney at a federal court hearing in Virginia.

"Refugees fleeing conflict and persecution are finding more and more borders closed and increasingly restricted access to the protection they need and are entitled to receive, according to international refugee law," the statement said.

Turkish media reports say an armed man is holding a number of doctors and other staff hostage at a hospital in Istanbul.

After banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, President Donald Trump has reportedly drafted an executive order to revamp the H1-B visa, which allows thousands of Indians to work at tech giants like Google and Mircosoft in the US.

Yangui, who was not inside the mosque when the shooting occurred, said he got frantic calls from people at evening prayers.

Pakistani poet and activist Salman Haider who went missing from the capital Islamabad earlier this month, just days after four other human rights campaigners disappeared, has been found, local media reported on Saturday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says there's no solution yet to the problem of how to fairly share the burden of migration among European Union member states.

US President Donald Trump said he had a "very good" telephonic conversation with his Mexican counterpart Enrique Peña Nieto amid a diplomatic spat over Washington's plans for a border wall.

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani student activist and Nobel Peace laureate, said she was "heartbroken" by Donald Trump's order on refugees and urged the US president not to abandon the world's "most defenseless."

President Donald Trump's renewed embrace of torture in the fight against Islamic extremism sets up a heated dispute with a long line of opponents both at home and abroad of Bush-era interrogation policies and CIA-run "black site" prisons.

A Pakistani woman lawmaker threatened to self-immolate in the Sindh assembly after a provincial minister passed sexist remarks, inviting her to his private chamber, an incident which highlighted the position of women in the country.