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Pakistan's cabinet in a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on July 15 at the Governor House in Lahore gave the go-ahead for negotiating a long-term defence agreement with China, The Express Tribune reported.

A record 2.2 million people voted in key Hong Kong elections which ended in the early hours on Monday and saw young independence activists calling for a complete break from China for the first time.

More than 600 Turkish security force members have been killed since July 2015 while more than 7,000 militants have been killed in Turkey and northern Iraq, Anadolu said.

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.

On the tarmac, a quarrel broke out between a presidential aide and a Chinese official who demanded the journalists travelling with Obama be prohibited from getting anywhere near him.

Thailand's Royal Palace has announced that King Bhumibol Adulyadej has been treated for a severe infection.

Three killed in a suspected terrorists attack at Christian colony in Peshawar on Friday.

The IS leader for Pakistan Hafiz Omar and 309 of its members, including 25 foreigners having Afghan, Syrian and Iraqi nationalities, have been detained across the country, Xinhua news agency quoted Army spokesman Lt. General Asim Saleem Bajwa as saying.

Michel Temer was sworn in as the new president of Brazil after Dilma Rousseff was stripped of the presidency by the Senate in an impeachment trial.

A separate vote will be held on whether Rousseff will be barred from public office for eight years

At least 10 people were killed and 32 others injured when a bus they were travelling in overturned in China's southwest Guangxi Zhuang.

An evacuation is underway at Los Angeles International Airport after reports of a shooter at one of the terminals

At least one person was killed and 26 others were wounded in the assault, which comes just weeks after two university professors -- an American and an Australian -- were kidnapped at gunpoint near the school.

"Like many other employers, especially in the public sector, we are working towards ensuring our service is representative of the communities we serve," he was quoted as saying by The Sun.

A 30-year-old British man was in critical condition in hospital after the attack south of the city of Townsville late on Tuesday night.

"The boy claimed during interrogation that he had been kidnapped by masked men who put the explosives on him and sent him to the area," said Kirkuk intelligence official Brig. Chato Fadhil Humadi.