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The two sides earlier this month announced a 'Phase One' deal in their nearly two-year trade confrontation, with Washington cancelling and reducing some tariffs in exchange for Chinese pledges to increase purchases of US exports and adopt trade reforms.

Nasrullah Chaudhry, working with Urdu-language daily Nai Baat, was found guilty of committing offences punishable under stringent provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act.

Mobile network coverage has been suspended for one kilometre along the entire border with India until further notice 'for the sake of the country's security in the current circumstances'.

Nalini Nadkarni joined a team of female scientists advising Mattel as it made the line of dolls that includes a marine biologist, astrophysicist, photojournalist, conservationist and entomologist.

A further four people are unaccounted for in the state of Victoria, the site of some of the fiercest recent fires, although authorities have not provided further information.

Of the 14 fatalities in the predawn attack in Jawzjan province, 13 were members of a pro-government militia and one was a policeman.

Addressing the officials, Kim Jong Un stressed the need to take positive and offensive measures for fully ensuring the sovereignty and security of the country.

Vladmir Putin has said on several recent occasions that Poland bears responsibility for the outbreak of the war, deepening tensions between the two Slavic nations.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan conveyed this to his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi during a meeting with him at the Foreign Office.

The initial version of the New Year Honours 2020 list posted online contained the home or work addresses of more than 1,000 recipients, including singer Sir Elton John, and was visible for around an hour.

Demonstrators have been targeting malls across Hong Kong since earlier this week and more than a hundred protesters, many dressed in black with face masks, marched through a mall in Sheung Shui on Saturday, chanting "Go back to China".

The 86 page-long petition sought constitution of a full bench of the court to quash the verdict of the three-member tribunal which sentenced the 76-year-old Musharraf to death in absentia for high treason following a six-year legal case on December 17.

The US presidential election is still 10 months away. But players in the financial markets — where tolerance for the unexpected tends to be low — are already trading the politics of 2020 like a choose-your-own-mystery novel, with the ending unknown.

The Fatah bloc, which includes leaders associated with the paramilitary Popular Mobilization Units, supported by Iran, proposed Gov. Asaad al-Eidani for premier.

The report said the shooting took place during a security operation in the coastal city of Dammam, a region where the Sunni-majority kingdom's Shiite minority predominate.

The new election law passed by parliament will allow voters to elect individual lawmakers instead of choosing from party lists, and have each member of parliament represent a specific electoral district instead of groups of legislators representing entire...