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Terrorist group Islamic State, which has claimed several previous attacks on Shia targets, claimed responsibility, its Amaq news agency said. The Taliban issued a statement denying any connection.

The first public acknowledgement by Israel that its F-16 warplanes carried out the Septembert 6 2007 bombing of the partially constructed Al-Kubar facility near Deir al-Zor was made after military censors lifted a more than 10-year order that had barred I...

Shahid Masood of the news channel TVOne in his programme, in January, had said that Imran Ali was a member of a pornography gang including leading politicians.

Brexit Secretary David Davis told a news conference that the transition deal "gives the certainty demanded by businesses and citizens across Britain and the European Union."

The New York Times and the British Observer newspaper reported on Saturday that Cambridge Analytica had harvested private data on more than 50 million Facebook users to support Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign.

North Korea is pursuing its nuclear and missile programmes in defiance of UN Security Council sanctions and has made no secret of its plans to develop a missile capable of hitting the US mainland.

According to the New York Times and Britain's Observer, the company stole information from 50 million Facebook users' profiles in the tech giant's biggest-ever data breach, to help them design software to predict and influence voters' choices at the ballo...

Nearly 700,000 Rohingya fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar to Bangladesh after militant attacks on Aug. 25 last year sparked a crackdown led by security forces in the western state of Rakhine that the United Nations and United States have said constituted eth...

The legislature is packed with delegates loyal to the ruling Communist Party meaning Xi's re-election was never in doubt.

According to state-run Global Times, the 17 men have been sent home and they have been blacklisted on China's social credit system.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his finance minister, Taro Aso, 77, have been under fire since the finance ministry admitted on March 12 that it had altered records relating to a discount sale of state-owned land to school operator Moritomo Gakuen,...

Some of the violence was instigated by threatening posts on Facebook, according to the government, which cut access to Facebook, Viber, and WhatsApp on March 7. It initially said the ban would last for three days but extended the block without informing t...

Trump was considering several possible replacements, including former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton and Keith Kellogg, the chief of staff of the National Security Council.

Britain has linked the attack to Soviet-designed nerve agents known as Novichok, and accused Moscow of failing to explain how the poison came to be used on English soil.

The US president recalled the exchange with Justin Trudeau in a fundraising speech in Missouri, of which the Washington Post said it had obtained an audio recording.

The black French bulldog was in a pet carrier during the flight Monday from Houston to New York.