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Donald Trump landed at Yokota Air Base on the outskirts of Tokyo, where he'll begin his trip with an address to American servicemembers. He'll then head to a private golf course for an informal lunch and golf with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

The acting minister for telecommunications, Shahzad Aryobee, posted a message on Facebook saying that the telecoms regulator had been ordered to put a gradual block on the services to improve their functioning after complaints had been received.

According to a BBC report, Britain's senior-most Indian-origin minister Priti Patel, the secretary of state for international development, was accompanied by pro-Israeli Conservative party lobbyist Lord Polak during the meetings over two days in August wh...

Surveys and anecdotal evidence from defectors suggest private markets are the main source of supply for most North Koreans.

The unprecedented action at Guantanamo's military commissions coincidentally came the same day President Donald Trump said he was considering sending the suspect in Tuesday's New York attack to the notorious detention center.

The legislation called for slashing the corporate tax rate to 20 percent from 35 percent and reducing the number of tax brackets for individuals.

People who lived in the neighborhood remembered the young Shiraishi as a "quiet child who was able to socialise with neighbours".

New York Police said the 29-year-old driver was shot by police in the abdomen and taken into custody after he crashed the truck into a school bus and fled his vehicle.

Pakistan's Qisas (blood money) and Diyat (retribution) law allows culprits to seek forgiveness from a victim's relatives - a particularly convenient means of escape in honour cases.

A suicide attacker riding a motorcycle blew himself up inside Kabul's heavily fortified diplomatic zone on Tuesday.

The tougher penalties also apply to desecration of the national flag, or emblem, including burning, defacing or trampling on it in public, the report said. That, too, had previously been punishable by up to 15 days' detention.

Sixty-six-year-old Brown, who was left blind in one eye after an accident during a rugby match as a teenager, was operated upon by Dr Hector Chawla at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh in 1971 to rescue him from retinal detachment in his remaining good eye...

Ishaq Dar's counsel Khawaja Haris appeared in the court of judge Muhammad Bashir and sought Dar's exemption from appearance as he was in London to seek medical treatment.

US intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia interfered with the election to benefit Donald Trump, a finding that Trump has not fully accepted.

With a huge B-52 bomber looming in the background, Mike Pence told some 250 airmen at Minot Air Force Base that "there is no greater force for peace in this world" than the US Nuclear arsenal.

Tension has flared on the Korean peninsula as US President Donald Trump and the North's ruler Kim Jong-Un have traded threats of war and personal insults that sparked global alarm.