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The US is eager to persuade the Taliban to join the peace process in Afghanistan and is offering a safety network that includes job opportunities for the insurgents

Instead of cheering Donald Trump in support of the recent US shutdown, many of the 800,000 workers forced either to work without salaries or go on unpaid leave are voicing growing anxiety as they wonder how to pay approaching bills or buy holiday gifts fo...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had announced that he was disbanding his coalition and taking the nation to new elections six months ahead of schedule.

Church leaders called on Christians to pray for victims of the tsunami which smashed homes on coastal areas of western Java on Saturday.

Fears about a public health crisis come as the death toll from Saturday's volcano-triggered disaster rose to nearly 400 with thousands more displaced from flattened homes.

Shahroudi had not been seen in public for several months, and there were reports that he underwent surgery for an unspecified cancer in Germany last year.

The app is aimed at ensuring a regular flow of tourists at the Church of the Nativity, where at busy times visitors wait hours to see the underground grotto where Christians believe Jesus was born in a manger.

More than 400,000 federal employees are reporting to their jobs on Monday but won't get their salaries, while nearly 400,000 others "will be locked out of work with no pay".

With the military and rescue teams scouting endlessly for survivors, Indonesia's national disaster agency said the casualty figures are likely to rise.

Afghanistan's two top security chiefs were replaced by staunch anti-Taliban officials, Amrullah Saleh and Assadullah Khaled, who earlier served as the chiefs of Afghan intelligence agency.

Nine people were trapped underground by smoke after a fire broke out in a section of mine that was under construction. Rescuers have yet to put out fire which lie at a depth of more than 360 meters.

Hamidreza Bagheri Dermani, 49, is the third businessman to be executed since an anti-corruption drive was launched over the summer.

The dispute could affect nine of 15 Cabinet-level departments and dozens of agencies, including the departments of Homeland Security, Transportation, Interior, Agriculture, State and Justice, as well as national parks and forests.

Flights were suspended again at Gatwick on Friday by a drone alert, just hours after being reopened following the original unmanned drone sightings which caused travel chaos that left tens of thousands of passengers stranded over three days.

Currently, the United States has about 14,000 troops in Afghanistan working either with a NATO mission to support Afghan forces or in separate counter-terrorism operations.

Khan's call to the UN chief comes days after he condemned the killing of seven civilians in Kashmir's Pulwama and threatened to raise the issue at the UN.