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The West Bank-based Palestinian prime minister crossed into the Gaza Strip on Monday in a move towards reconciliation between the mainstream Fatah party and Hamas, a decade after the Islamist group seized the territory in a civil war.

The gunman, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, was a local Las Vegas man who acted alone and was not believed to be connected to any militant group, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters.

At least 50 people have been killed and more than 200 injured in the shooting at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip.

Wedding bells were to ring out in Berlin, Hamburg, Hanover and other German cities where local authorities have exceptionally opened their doors on a Sunday, allowing weddings on the day the law comes into effect.

The prosecutor's announcement comes two days after a separate arrest warrant was issued for a man who threatened in a video clip posted online to attack women drivers.

Mark Zuckerberg has been on the defensive for weeks over revelations that Russian agents bought ads on Facebook and created fake accounts to inflame political tensions in the United States ahead of the 2016 presidential vote.

The publicity drive by Norwegian-based website RichMeetBeautiful has triggered a storm of controversy in Belgium as lorries with huge billboards paraded past universities in Brussels.

US President Donald Trump is set to make his first visit to China as part of a tour that will also take in regional allies Japan and South Korea, with trade one of the top agenda items.

Myanmar says its forces are fighting terrorists responsible for attacking the police and the army, killing civilians and torching villages.

North Korea’s foreign minister Ri Yong Ho said a Twitter message by Trump on Saturday, in which the president warned that the minister and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “won’t be around much longer” if they acted on their threats, amounted to a declarat...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif added that Donald Trump's certification of whether Iran is abiding by the Nuclear deal -- due mid-October -- is an 'internal procedure' that in itself does not endanger the agreement.

The Central Committee of the CPP said that the long-term tactics were designed by the military in Pakistan to tear the social fabric of the society.

Speaking to reporters from four media organisations including Reuters in the office of his lawyers in Rome, Libero Milone said he believed that some in the Vatican wanted to slow down Pope Francis's efforts at financial reform.

The Accountability Court in Islamabad, which is hearing the corruption cases against the Sharif family, on Friday summoned Sharif, his daughter Maryam and son-in-law capt (retd) Safdar to appear before it on September 26.

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho suggested leader Kim Jong Un was considering testing "an unprecedented scale hydrogen bomb" over the Pacific in response to US President Donald Trump's threat at the United Nations to "totally destroy" the country.