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President Donald Trump promptly accepted Tom Price's resignation and designated Don J Wright to serve as Acting Secretary, effective at 11:59 pm (local time) on September 29, 2017, the White House said in a statement.

The growing Rohingya refugee crisis prompted the UN Security Council to hold a rare public meeting on Myanmar, with the US slamming the country for trying "to cleanse the country of an ethnic minority" while Beijing and Moscow backed the Myanmar authoriti...

The victim's family has called for the father-of-two to be tried for rape, saying the girl only went home with the man because she was "paralysed" by fear and "unable to defend herself".

Ten years after the military raid on his mosque made international headlines and shocked his country, Abdul Aziz remains influential, overseeing a network of seminaries as he calls for a "caliphate" to be established in Pakistan.

Nobel had decreed that the bulk of his estate should be invested in "safe securities" and, as a result, about 31.5 million Swedish kronor, equivalent today to about 1.7 billion kronor ($210 million, 180 million euros), were used to create the Nobel Founda...

Playboy Enterprises Inc said its founder Hugh Hefner has died of natural causes.

The eastern government called the move by the US a "serious escalation" targeting Libyans, accusing the country of placing Libyans "in the same place with terrorists, whom the Libyan armed forces are fighting with the help of the Libyan people."

Putin said Washington had postponed its plans to destroy its chemical weapons citing insufficient funds, which he said "looked a little bit strange."

Rajitha Senaratne, a cabinet spokesman, said the government condemned Tuesday's storming of a UN safe house where 31 Rohingya refugees, including 16 children and seven women, had been given shelter.

Anti-corruption watchdog National Accountability Bureau on September 8 filed a case against Dar for possessing assets beyond his known sources of income following the July 28 verdict of the Supreme Court.

The National Archives has until October 26 to disclose the remaining files related to Kennedy's 1963 assassination, unless Trump intervenes. The CIA and FBI, whose records make up the bulk of the batch, won't say whether they've appealed to the Republican...

President Donald Trump is considering whether to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers including the United States, calling the accord an "embarrassment".

After taking office in January, President Donald Trump issued an executive order lowering the maximum number to 50,000 for 2017, saying that more would be "detrimental to the interests of the United States."

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

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza during the speech at United Nations General Assembly accused US President Donald Trump of acting like 'the world's emperor'.

Erdogan, who has repeatedly highlighted the plight of the Rohingya, again accused the Yangon government of carrying out a "genocide" against the people in Rakhine state.