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A long-distance First Lady will be one of the many different things about Donald Trump's administration.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday threatened to throw open Turkey's borders to illegal migrants after the European Parliament voted to back a freeze in membership talks with Ankara.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the British people on Thursday that Brexit can still be stopped.

The Mexican central bank has slashed the country's economic growth forecast, citing concerns that US President-elect Donald Trump will make good on his pledge to upend regional trade.

Sharif "condemned in the strongest words the unprovoked firing by Indian security forces on a civil bus carrying innocent civilians along LoC near Neelum valley."

The United States sees outgoing Pakistan Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif as a valued and respected partner in the war against terrorism, a US official said on Tuesday.

Germany's flagship carrier Lufthansa said it would cancel nearly 900 flights on Wednesday because of a strike by pilots, causing travel disruption for tens of thousands of passengers in the latest escalation of a long-simmering pay dispute.

The November 18 strike near Sarmada in northwestern Syria targeted Abu Afghan al-Masri, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said.

At least 68,100 civilians are believed to have been displaced from the Iraqi city of Mosul by the campaign to liberate it from the Islamic State militant group, said the International Organisation for Migration on Tuesday

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has asked the Trump campaign to fix 1,100 errors amounting to USD 1.3 million in campaign donations.

Nigeria on Monday released a banner containing photographs and names of 55 Boko Haram wanted for various attacks and terror activities in the northeast where the military currently prosecute war against the insurgents.

Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai on Sunday welcomed the surgical strikes by Indian Army on terrorist camps in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and said for long his country has been demanding terror sanctuaries be destroyed.

Indians have done very well at all places that require hard work and risk-taking, an Indian- American entrepreneur has said as he criticised the remarks of President-elect Donald Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon who had expressed dismay at the number...

A bill in Turkey that would overturn men's convictions for child sex assault if they married their victim provoked fury on Friday, with critics accusing the government of encouraging rape of minors with the proposals.

Amid reports that she was a contender for a spot in Donald Trump's cabinet, Indian- American South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has asserted that the Republican Party needs to be inclusive and cannot afford to forget immigrants or people of colour.

Asia-Pacific leaders were urged on Friday to defend free trade from rising protectionism after the election victory of Donald Trump stoked fears that years of tearing down barriers to global commerce could be reversed.