CAIRO, July 17 (AP): Sudan's pro-democracy movement and the ruling military council signed a document early on Wednesday that outlines a power-sharing deal, but the two sides are still at work on a more contentious constitutional agreement that would specify the division of powers.The signing ceremony held in the capital,...
Read moreMULTAN, July 17 (AP): Pakistan on Wednesday arrested a radical cleric and U.S.-wanted terror suspect implicated in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, officials said, just days ahead of Prime Minister Imran Khan's trip to Washington.Hafiz Saeed was taken into custody in Punjab province while traveling from the eastern city of Lahore...
Read moreNUEVO LAREDO, July 17 (AP): Asylum-seekers gathered in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Texas, grappled to understand what a new U.S. policy that all but eliminates refuge claims by Central Americans and many others meant for their bids to find a better life in America amid a chaos of...
Read moreSYDNEY, July 17 (BBC): The Australian government has called on China to allow an ethnic Uighur mother and son to leave the country, following a public plea from the child's father.Rights groups say China is holding about a million Uighurs and other Muslims in detention camps. China says they are...
Read moreARBIL, July 17 (AFP): At least one gunman killed three people including the Turkish vice consul to Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region in an attack on Wednesday in the regional capital of Arbil, a police source told AFP."Three people, including the Turkish vice consul, were killed in an armed attack targeting...
Read moreMUMBAI, July 17 (AP): Rescuers found 14 bodies and pulled out 11 survivors as they began winding down operations at the site of a dilapidated building that collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai, an official said on Wednesday.Bijendra Dahiya, a National Disaster Response Force official, said workers were still...
Read moreSOFIA, July 17 (AP): Bulgarian officials said on Tuesday that unidentified hackers have stolen the personal details of millions of people from Bulgaria's national revenue agency and noted a possible Russian link in the case.Prime Minister Boyko Borissov called an emergency meeting of all law enforcement services to consider the...
Read moreRIO DE JANEIRO, July 17 (Xinhua): Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday confirmed that he will nominate his son Eduardo Bolsonaro to the position of Brazil's ambassador to the United States."From my part, it is already a done deal," the president said.He stressed that though his decision is already made,...
Read moreSaudi Arabia intercepts drone of Yemeni rebelsRIYADH, July 17: The Saudi military says it has intercepted a drone launched at the kingdom's southern border by Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen. Col. Turki al-Maliki, a military spokesman, was quoted in the state-run Saudi Press Agency on Wednesday as saying the drone was...
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