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A Pakistan International Airlines flight PK-661, with 47 passengers on board, en route to Islamabad from Chitral crashed near Abbottabad on Wednesday, Pakistani media reported.

US President-elect Donald Trump has formally nominated James Mattis, a retired 4-star Marine Corps general who has long voiced concerns about the threat posed by Iran, as the Defence Secretary to replace Ashton Carter.

Airstrikes on rebel-held areas in the country's northwestern city of Idlib killed 25 people on Tuesday, a monitor group reported.

Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein pressed her case on Monday for recounts of U.S. presidential ballots in three states, and locked horns with President-elect Donald Trump over her motives.

JuD chief Hafiz Saeed on Monday announced launching a movement against the passage of a bill that stopped forced religious conversions in Pakistan's Sindh province, saying that the law is anti-Islam and against the Constitution.

The Washington Post said Trumps protocol-breaking telephone call with Taiwans leader was an intentionally provocative move that establishes the incoming president as a break with the past.

Former Cuban president Fidel Castro was buried in a "simple" funeral in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba on Sunday.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is likely to visit the US in the first quarter of next year when a meeting with incoming President Donald Trump would be included in his Washington engagements, media reports here said on Sunday.

President-elect Donald Trump has broken with decades of US diplomatic policy and spoke with President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, at the risk of provoking a serious rift with China.

When South Korean students protested in the 1960s and 1980s, blood flowed in the streets. In 2016, children launch flashing toys into the night air as entertainers lead a massive, docile crowd in popular sing-alongs.

Seventeen persons were killed in a road accident in central China early Friday morning, reports said. Rescue operations are on.

US firms that relocate abroad will be punished under Donald Trump's administration, the president-elect warned today as he announced a deal with air conditioning manufacturer Carrier to keep jobs in the country.

Russia's space agency said it had lost contact on Thursday with an unmanned cargo ship shortly after it blasted off to the International Space Station from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Donald Trump said that he's leaving his business empire to focus on being the nation's 45th president, bowing to pressure to avoid potential conflicts of interest between governing and profiting in the private sector.

Castro's ashes will then go on a four-day island-wide procession before being buried in the southeastern city of Santiago on December 4.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has appointed Lt General Qamar Javed Bajwa as the country’s new army chief, Pakistan media reported on Saturday.