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Seoul on Friday brushed aside US President Donald Trump's suggestion that it should pay for a USD 1 billion missile defence system the two allies are installing in South Korea to guard against threats from the North.

Trump agreed to honour the "one China" policy in February and then hosted Xi at his Florida resort earlier this month.

Three people were killed in Venezuela on Monday in renewed violence, raising the death toll in three weeks of massive demonstrations against leftwing President Nicolas Maduro to 24, officials said.

The epicentre's shallow depth of 15.5 miles (25 km) below the sea allowed it to be felt hundreds of miles (km) away. Santiago office buildings swayed for about 30 seconds at the end of the workday.

Toner said that it's been from the beginnings of this administration and certainly with respect to immigration and with refugee flows as well.

Earlier this month, White House spokesman Sean Spicer sparked outrage around the world after minimising the atrocities of Adolf Hitler in comments on Syria.

The Supreme Court in Pakistan will deliver its verdict in the high-profile Panama Papers case involving the country’s Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif and his family. Elections in Pakistan next year have increased the significance of the verdict for Sharif and...

The process of punishing terrorists was expedited during operation Radd-ul-Fasaad launched in February, he said , adding that the military courts had decided 274 cases and awarded death sentence to 161 militants so far.

The development of the US reviewing the sanctions relief for Iran comes as Washington also asserted that Iran remains a "leading sponsor" of terrorism.

Police in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday said there was no concrete evidence yet to register a blasphemy case against Mashal Khan who was lynched by a violent mob, as it arrested 22 people and opened a hate speech probe agai...

An engaged couple were removed from a United Airlines flight to Costa Rica on Saturday, as the airline remained under scrutiny following outrage caused by a video last week of a passenger being forcibly removed from a flight.

The world's largest online social network, used by more than 1.2 billion people every day, condemned the accused killer's action.

The White House has made clear it regards the carriage procession as an essential element of the itinerary for President Trump's visit currently planned for the second week of October, The Sunday Times reported, citing officials.

Shaer, who runs a small business selling biscuits and chocolates to local retailers, said he had always been a lover of poetry and literature and encouraged his children to express themselves and appreciate the arts.

North Korea's army on Friday vowed a 'merciless' response to any US provocation, as tensions soar over Pyongyang's nuclear programme and speculation mounts that it is preparing a fresh weapons test.

The body of a man, who witnesses said was tossed from a plane, landed on a hospital roof in Mexico's northern Sinaloa state on Wednesday, according to a public health service official in the region, which is home to notorious drug traffickers.