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Businesses welcomed the proposals, but the Confederation of British Industry warned the government that “the clock is ticking and what matters now is giving companies the confidence to continue investing”.

A road safety campaign in the UK that uses images of a young cartoon character wearing a hijab has dropped the pictures after it was accused of "sexualising" children.

Hoisted by Qamar Javed Bajwa at the border at midnight, the flag is reported to be the highest one in South Asia and the 8th highest in the world.

Trump's unexpected remarks prompted North Korea to say on Thursday it was finalising plans to fire four intermediate-range missiles over Japan to land 30-40 km (18-25 miles) from Guam, more than 3,000 km to the south.

The United Nations Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Saturday that could slash its $3 billion annual export revenue by a third.

Chicago, a regular target of Republican President Donald Trump because of its murder rate, expected to receive $3.2 million this year for purchasing equipment.

The August 8 election is seen as a crucial test of Kenya's progress since a disputed poll a decade ago led to two months of politically motivated ethnic clashes, which along with a police crackdown on protests left more than 1,100 dead and 600,000 displac...

During a July 19 meeting in the White House Situation Room, US President Donald Trump demanded that his top national security aides provide more information on what one official called "the end-state" in a country where the United States has spent 16 year...

For China, the two-lane thoroughfare symbolises a blossoming partnership, nourished with tens of billions of dollars of infrastructure investment.

The UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain cut ties with Qatar - a major global gas supplier and host to the biggest U.S. military base in the Middle East - on June 5, accusing it of backing militant groups and arch foe Iran, allegations Doha denies.

Novoa had asked his landlord if he could move the freezer down to the landlord's basement because his electricity had been shut off and "he didn't want his freezer full of meat to spoil," the police report said.

Police say witnesses reported that Prichard pulled a 9 mm pistol out of her dress, pointed it at her husband's head and pulled the trigger.

The opening editorial of the magazine reads, "We want to provoke women of Islam to come forward and join the ranks of mujahideen e (holy warriors of) Islam".

Regulators have warned firms providing internet networks for hotels to stop offering, or helping to install, virtual private networks (VPNs) into hotel systems - tools that allow users to evade, at least partially - China’s internet censors.

The projects would focus on a roughly 24 km segment of the frontier extending eastward from the Pacific Ocean as part of President Donald Trump's planned border wall between the United States and Mexico

The men -- reportedly two Lebanese-Australian fathers and their sons -- were arrested in raids across Sydney on Saturday evening.