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Yemen's president on Saturday rejected a UN peace proposal for his war-battered country, as rebels said air strikes by his Saudi-led coalition allies killed 17 civilians.

Assadi said the operation was launched from the Sin al-Dhaban area south of Mosul and aimed to retake the towns of Hatra and Tal Abta as well as Tal Afar.

A St Louis jury has awarded a California woman more than USD 70 million in her lawsuit alleging that years of using Johnson & Johnson's baby powder caused her cancer.

The Libyan navy said on Thursday that at least 90 migrants are believed to have perished when their rickety boat started to fall apart in the Mediterranean Sea, after leaving the Libyan coast.

Humanitarian partners continue to provide assistance to displaced families and wherever access allows, he said.

National Geographic's famed 'Afghan Girl' Sharbat Gula was arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday in Pakistan's Peshawar city, authorities said.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said he would "investigate the investigation" into the email scandal of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton when she was the secretary of state.

Panama Papers and Bahama Leaks are a matter of honesty, transparency and accountability, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said here on Tuesday, amidst demand for the resignation of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on corruption charges.

The foremost place accorded to Sri Lanka's majority religion of Buddhism will be preserved in its new Constitution, President Maithripala Sirisena has said.

A member of the Swedish Academy that awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature to Bob Dylan says the US singer-songwriter's silence since receiving the honor is "impolite and arrogant."

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Friday he would not sever his nation's alliance with the United States, as he clarified his announcement that he planned to "separate".

Citing a judgment by India's Supreme Court, Pakistan's apex court has ruled that schizophrenia is not a "permanent" mental disorder so it cannot be a ground for halting a death penalty.

Islamic State launched a major counter-attack on the city of Kirkuk on Friday as Iraqi and Kurdish forces pursued operations to seize territory around Mosul in preparation for an offensive on the jihadists' last major stronghold in Iraq.

Republican candidate Donald Trump's campaign said it raised USD 9 million through a Facebook Live event from more than 150,000 donors during the third and final presidential debate.

Jim Murphy, the national political director of Donald Trump, has stepped back from the campaign, according to the media reports.

US President Barack Obama has said Republican Donald Trump’s insistence that he might not accept the election result is "dangerous".