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Britain has withdrawn its candidate from election to the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) as he was forced into 12 rounds of run-off elections for the final remaining place on the court. It will be the first time since the ICJ was established in 1945 that there will be …

A Pakistani court has granted the government three more days to find a way to clear a sit-in protest by a religious party near the capital, Islamabad. Pakistani Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal said in Islamabad on Monday that he had pleaded with the Islamabad High Court (IHC), warning that any use …

Fierce clashes between Indian security forces and a group of pro-independence fighters in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir have left at least seven people dead. According to army spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia, the shootout occurred on Saturday when soldiers cordoned off a district in the northern area of Hajin after receiving a tip-off that …

Amsterdam has won the right to host the EU’s EMA drug agency when it leaves London following Brexit after the Dutch city tied with Milan in a vote that was then decided by the drawing of lots, diplomatic sources say. The Council of the European Union on Monday confirmed the …

Marathon talks on forming a coalition government in Germany have collapsed, plunging the eurozone’s largest economy into a political crisis and casting doubt on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s fourth term. Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats Party (FDP) unexpectedly called off more than four weeks of coalition talks with Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc and …

Hundreds of angry Siemens workers protested at the industrial behemoth’s historic Berlin factory Friday, in the first revolt against a mass jobs cull that unions have vowed to resist with all their might. “We are Siemens and we aren’t going anywhere,” the crowd chanted, a day after the firm announced …

Gunmen have killed 15 men and a police official and three of his family members in separate attacks in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan. Darmoon Bawani, an administrator in Turbat district, said the 15 men were killed in a mountain village and their bodies were found on Wednesday. The victims ranged …

SARPO-E ZAHAB (Tasnim) – A 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Iran’s western province of Kermanshah on Sunday night has killed more than 470 people, inflicting heavy damages on the rural areas near the city of Sarpol-e Zahab.

The number of people killed in extremist attacks declined for the second successive year in 2016 but more countries were affected, according to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) released Wednesday. (AFP) — Its report, produced by Australia’s Institute for Economics & Peace, found there were 25,673 deaths last year due to …

Turkey on Wednesday condemned as “an extremely grave revelation” the potential escape of hundreds of terrorists from the Syrian city of Raqqa, saying it underscored the perils of Washington’s alliance with Kurdish fighters. (AFP) — The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said over 3,000 civilians had left Raqqa on October 14 …