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despite the 800,000 refugees expected to pour into Europe's biggest economy this year, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday she was still aiming to balance the country's budget.

Top Taliban leader Mullah Omar was sheltered by Pakistan's powerful spy agency ISI after the outfit's leadership fled from Afghanistan in 2001, according to an email received by former secretary of state Hillary Clinton during her tenure.

NASA has selected the potential next destination for the New Horizons spacecraft after its historic July 14 flyby of the Pluto system - a planetoid that lies nearly a billion miles beyond the dwarf planet.

No one was hurt in the incident and the aircraft was driven into a parking area at the side of the road.

Myanmar's government has approved the country's first-ever national minimum wage after a long agitation.

Under the new regulations, women who get pregnant are now offered temporary ground jobs and staff may get married after notifying the company.

US petroleum data showed lower crude-oil inventories but barely any decline in production despite sinking prices

lash floods caused by heavy rain killed 40 people in North Korea's northeastern border area over the weekend

The four killed late last night included a top commander of the LEJ, which has been involved in sectarian killings of Shia Muslims and attacks on government

Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Afghanistan-based dreaded Haqqani network are not banned in Pakistan, according to an official list of 60 proscribed outfits.

All the bodies of the 54 people aboard an ATR42-300 of Trigana Air Service that crashed have been found, an official said.

No party appears to have secured an absolute majority of 113 seats in the 225-member parliament, which will force the new government to seek out smaller allies.

Tens of thousands of protesters across Brazil called on President Dilma Rousseff to step down on Monday, blaming her and the leftist Workers' Party for the corruption and economic troubles besetting Latin America's biggest country.

The Trigana Air ATR 42 turboprop plane lost contact just before 3 PM after taking off from Sentani airport in Jayapura on a flight to Oksibil, the agency said.

Mullah Omar, the one-eyed commander who led the Taliban for some 20 years, is reported to have died in a hospital in Karachi on April 23, 2013.

The family sat on a protest, with the body, on Rahim Yar Khan-Bahawalpur Road and blocked it for several hours.