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Senior U.S. intelligence officials face questions at a Senate hearing that will be dominated by the intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled in the presidential election to help Donald Trump win.

US President-elect Donald Trump spoke by phone with newly installed UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday, amid expectations his administration will take a tougher line with the global body.

A jail guard and five inmates were killed during a southern Philippines jailbreak before dawn and in the subsequent manhunt on Wednesday.

Turkish media on Tuesday ran a "selfie video" of a man they say is the gunman who killed 39 people, including two Indians, at an Istanbul nightclub.

Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday he will aim to quickly restore the country's signature Red Army Choir, which lost most of its singers in the weekend's military plane crash.

Asif Ali Zardari will announce his son Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s debut in parliamentary politics on the eve of his wife and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s ninth death anniversary on Tuesday.

Rescuers in China have evacuated 244 passengers from their vehicles after they were trapped in a blizzard in northwest Chinas Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

The U.N. Security Council has defeated a U.S.-sponsored resolution that would have imposed an arms embargo on South Sudan and three key figures in the conflict in the world's newest nation.

The Karachi-based Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) has sold 40% strategic shares to a Chinese consortium at a deal valued at $85 million, Dawn reported on Friday.

China is viewed as most influential country in Asia and has more say in Pakistan than the US while Beijing has negative ratings in Japan, Vietnam and South Korea, results of global online survey carried by Chinese media said.

The jailed confidante of disgraced South Korean President Park Geun-hye denied on the first day of her trial on Monday that she used her ties to the presidential ties to extort money from powerful companies.

Police in the US state of New York broke into a vehicle to 'rescue' an apparently frozen woman, only to find it was a life-size mannequin, media reports said.

The UN Security Council will vote Monday on a French-drafted resolution to quickly deploy UN observers to Aleppo, with Russia, Syria's ally, giving cautious backing to the measure.

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands today, the US Geological Survey said, the third strong tremor off the Pacific nation in less than two weeks.

Supporters of impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye clashed with anti-Park protesters Saturday, as large crowds of demonstrators again gathered in Seoul to demand the scandal-ridden leader's immediate ouster.

Police early Saturday forcefully broke up an hours-long blockade of exits from the Polish parliament by protesters who said ruling party lawmakers violated the constitution by illegally passing the budget for next year.