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The civil defence organisation known as the White Helmets was left overwhelmed by the scale of the destruction, particularly after several of its bases were damaged in bombing on Friday.

The family of the African-American man whose death has triggered days of unrest in Charlotte, North Carolina, released a dramatic video of the moment he was shot by police.

She refused to remove it and the judge put the case off. It was ultimately settled when the car was returned.

More than one thousand people have been forced from their homes in the district and are taking shelter in nearby emergency tents set up by search and rescue teams.

BRICS ministers have condemned recent terrorist attacks against India and other countries, calling for speeding up the international pact against terrorism in order to give legal weight to a concerted global effort to counter the scourge.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has called on the international community to adopt comprehensive national action plans to tackle both the causes and symptoms of all extremism.

One American pilot was killed and another injured when they ejected from a U-2 spy plane shortly before it crashed in Northern California.

There was a "false alarm for hijack for Flight 872," the spokesman said in the Saudi capital Riyadh.

The US has said it will continue to press Pakistan to take "additional steps" to deal with terror groups seeking refuge within its borders.

North Korea has carried out a successful ground test for a new high-power rocket engine.

US society is uncomfortable with powerful women and that is why the United States has not yet elected a woman president, President Barack Obama said on Sunday.

Obama and Modi met in Laos last week on the sidelines of the 14th India-Asean Summit and the 11th East Asia Summit in Vientiane, their eighth meeting in the last two years.

Ghani said Pakistan is a country which celebrates "every single one of its defeat" as victory and every single one of its intelligence failure as a confirmation of conspiracy theory.

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has stopped passengers from carrying the recently-launched Samsung Galaxy Note 7, following reports of the smartphone's batteries exploding.

More than 100,000 pilgrims attended a service led by Pope Francis in St Peter's Square at the Vatican to honour the tiny nun who worked among the world's neediest in the slums of Kolkata.

When Pope Francis canonises Mother Teresa on Sunday, two Balkan countries will be celebrating the sainthood of a woman they both fiercely claim as their own. While she is famed for her work with the poor in the Indian city of Kolkata, the late missionary'...