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A 500-year-old section of China's Great Wall called "Moon Gate" in northern Shanxi province has collapsed after being hit by strong winds, officials said.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's family has rejected the allegations levelled against it by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan, saying that it does not own any business in India.

The Pakistan Parliament on Friday passed a resolution expressing solidarity with Kashmiris, and stated that Jammu and Kashmir is not an integral part of India.

The newly crowned Miss Venezuela on Thursday took issue with Donald Trump's attacks on her predecessor Alicia Machado, who says the US presidential candidate "fat-shamed" her when she was Miss Universe.

Hurricane Matthew has killed at least 283 people in Haiti, including dozens in one coastal town that authorities and rescue workers were only beginning to reach days after the powerful storm, officials said late on Thursday.

The stage seems set for a confrontation between the Nawaz Sharif government and the Pakistani Army over the Uri attacks, its diplomatic fallout and the Indian Army’s retaliatory surgical strikes.

Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres was unanimously selected on Wednesday by the UN Security Council as the next UN Secretary-General, succeeding Ban Ki-moon on January 1, 2017.

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called for a boost of Russia's defences to keep the nation "strong" as he opened the new parliament session amid a fresh upsurge in tensions with the United States.

Clinton said that while millions of Americans worked hard to pay their fare share, Trump contributed nothing for the country, The Telegraph reported on Monday.

Baloch activists, protesting in front of the Chinese Embassy against the "China-Pakistan nexus" in Balochistan, have vowed to never accept the contracts signed between Beijing and Islamabad to plunder the resource-rich province.

Republican Donald Trump can do little to stop Democrat Hillary Clinton from winning the presidency if she carries North Carolina, where their close race reflects the national liabilities of both candidates.

Refusing to yield on its all-weather ally, China on Saturday announced the extension of its "technical hold" on India's bid to get Pakistan-based JeM chief Masood Azhar designated as a terrorist by the UN, days before it was to expire.

The army has often played a prominent role in the governance of Pakistan as democracy has not been tailored to its environment, the country's former president Gen (Retd) Pervez Musharraf has said.

US President Barack Obama has defended his decision not to use the term 'Islamic terrorism', saying it is a "sort of manufactured" issue and there is no religious rationale to associate Islam with those who kill people.

Authorities say seven people have been injured in an apparent fight in Boston's Theater District, and police are looking for a suspect.

The report found that anti-Muslim violence spiked after the 9/11 attacks, as did attacks on Sikh-Americans, who are often confused with Muslim Americans.