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Obama will set the tone for the celebrations with a speech in Johannesburg on July 17 that aides say will be his most important public address since leaving the White House in 2017.

Audio of the agonized child crying when she was separated galvanized opposition to the separation of families. The 6-year-old pleaded with Border Patrol agents to call her aunt, whose phone number she offers from memory.

On June 19, the US announced its decision to leave the Council. Senior US officials accused the Council of displaying entrenched bias against Israel, and criticized what they said was the body's willingness to admit nations which were themselves human rig...

The advocacy group said it feared the technique could be abused to violate the privacy of non-criminals.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) spokesperson Marriyum Aurenzeb told PTI that police have arrested over 300 PML-N workers mostly from Lahore to stop them from welcoming Sharif at the airport.

The four-paragraph letter — an upbeat missive in which Kim voices hope in a "new future" and speaks of his "invariable trust" in Trump — is dated July 6, the day Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in North Korea for what turned out to be acrimonious ta...

Nawaz Sharif, who is in London to tend to his ailing wife Kulsoom, is expected to return to Pakistan on Friday, days after being sentenced to 11 years in prison by an anti-corruption court in the Avenfield properties case, one of the three corruption case...

US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer released a list of thousands of additional goods that could face 10 per cent tariffs after a public comment period including fruit and vegetables, handbags, refrigerators, rain jackets and baseball gloves.

Coach Ek, the 25-year-old who was among the last to emerge from the cave on Tuesday, has been lauded for keeping the the young footballers - aged 11-16 - calm as starvation loomed in the dark.

Australian media said Richard Harris, a world-renowned medic and diver, put his own life at risk to venture four kilometres (2.5 miles) into the flooded cave to medically assess the 12 boys and their coach.

China ended its decades-old one child policy in 2016 and permitted couples to have two children as the population of elderly rose with declining numbers of young people.

President Donald Trump vowed to hit back on a growing list of products after China retaliated in kind for the first round of 25 per cent tariffs on $34 billion worth of imports that Washington imposed last week.

With more than 52 million followers, the @realDonaldTrump account also counts nearly 10 million more followers than third-place holder, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi,according to the latest "Twiplomacy" study by communications firm Burson Cohn & Wol...

The Japan Meteorological Agency said as much as 10 centimeters (3 inches) of rain per hour fell on large parts of southwestern Japan. All rain warnings have been lifted.

Interior Minister Anupong Paojinda told reporters the four boys rescued on Sunday were in good health in hospital but did not give details. There was no word on the condition of any of the people brought out on Monday.

The operation to rescue the boys, ages 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach by having them dive out of the flooded cave began Sunday morning, with expert divers entering the sprawling complex for the complicated and dangerous mission.