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The election, the first Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party has contested since 1990, saw a huge turnout that has yielded more than 80 percent of seats for the NLD.

Ahead of Narendra Modi's arrival in Britain, the United Kingdom CEO forum has appealed to the Prime Minister to improve the business environment better in India.

Grandi, who will take up the job on January 1, was head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA from 2010 to 2014, after serving as its number two from 2005 to 2010.

The British and US governments have said it is possible an explosive caused the Saint Petersburg-bound jet to crash in the Sinai Peninsula after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board.

Suu Kyi has faced international censure for not speaking out in support of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority who have been hardest hit by deadly bouts of communal violence in Buddhist-majority Myanmar at a time of surging religious nationalism.

After that visa expired and Eagle went out of business, the US government recognised Ahir as a victim of human trafficking in July 2013, granting him a rare “T visa” that allows victims of forced labour to return home, collect family and re-settle in the...

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi was addressing a seminar on Pakistan-India relations held in Karachi.

Bhandari defeated her opponent Kul Bahadur Gurung by securing 327 to 214 votes to become the Himalayan nation's ceremonial head of state.

The report says that the increase in stockpile will depend on how many nuclear-capable launchers Pakistan plans to deploy, and how much India's nuclear arsenal grows.

Other Islamic State terrorists in the video congratulate Palestinians for the current wave of terror attacks.

The deadly unrest that has raged for more than two weeks prompted a "very concerned" US President Barack Obama to call for calm as the UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on Friday.

With Sharia4Belgium now broken up and many of its members jailed, recruiting has changed.

The Russian air force officially informed the Turkish military on Thursday about the violations and about steps it would take to prevent a repetition.

The organisation owed a total of USD 1.03 billion to 86 Member States which contributed troops, police and equipment as of October 2 this year.

Netanyahu told reporters he has been speaking to US Secretary of State John Kerry and other leaders about meeting with Abbas.