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The latest estimate, which is based on conversations with more than 1,200 individual local sources in all districts of the South Asian country, was significantly higher than the most recent assessment by the NATO-led coalition of the Taliban's presence.

CIA chief Mike Pompeo said that he expects the Russians will continue to try and meddle into the US vote, but is also confident that the country will be able to have a free and fair election.

The changes came after a 90-day review of refugee admissions from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Mali, North Korea, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria and Yemen by the State Department, Department of Homeland Security and intelligence agencies.

Around Antarctica, the ice is now at a record small extent for late January. At the other end of the planet, Arctic sea ice has set repeated lows in recent decades and is also at a record low for the time of year.

The victim's sibling had earlier claimed he had left the house for about 30 minutes and upon return, he found his sister strangled with her scarf. But he later confessed.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has come under fire over her Brexit strategy again in recent days, with rivals criticising her for largely accepting the EU push for a status quo transition during which, however, London would not have any vote on EU aff...

At least 152 Somalis and Ethiopians were aboard the overcrowded vessel which left Aden in southern Yemen on Tuesday, the UN refugee and migration agencies said in a joint statement.

"America is open for business," US president Donald Trump is expected to say in a keynote address at the close of the week-long World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps, according to a senior administration official.

Mueller, who is investigating allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, learned of the incident in recent months as his investigators interviewed current and former senior White House officials in an inquiry into whether the president obstr...

The BBC says DNA extracted from the mummy's toe has revealed she is Anna Catharina Bischoff, a member of a prominent Basel family who died in 1787.

The term "Dreamers", which is used for the undocumented immigrants living in the US illegally, came from the DREAM Act, a bipartisan legislation that was first proposed in 2001 to provide citizenship to them under certain conditions. The bill was never pa...

Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, two identical long-tailed macaques, were born eight and six weeks ago, making them the first primates -- the order of mammals that includes monkeys, apes and humans -- to be cloned from a non-embryonic cell.

In the past week, the three top contenders for the July presidential election have all said Mexico will not pay for the wall US president Donald Trump wants to build on the US southern border.

The incident occurred within the premises of privately-run Islamia College in Charsadda district.

Essential federal services and military activity are continuing, but even active-duty troops will not be paid until a deal is reached to reopen the US government.

Fontanka local news site reported the animal was a two-metre-long Nile crocodile and said it belonged to a military reenactment enthusiast who ran a youth club in the building.