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All 176 people aboard were killed, including 138 people who were headed for Canada and 57 Canadians.

The sovereign council head, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, vowed never to allow any coup to take place and added that the army was in control of all intelligence buildings.

Bernie Sanders vehemently denied Warren's accusation, which threatened to split the Democratic Party's far-left flank -- and a longtime liberal alliance -- at a critical moment in the 2020 contest.

Iran shot down the plane on Wednesday when its military was on high alert, hours after firing missiles at US targets in Iraq. It admitted the mistake on Saturday after days of denials.

There was no immediate Israeli comment. Israel has carried out dozens of airstrikes on Syria over the past years but it rarely comments on what it targets.

The harsh weather conditions have created immense hardship for people across the country, with road transport and communication severely affected.

Social services removed the girl from her family home in the town of Eberswalde, north of Berlin, and transferred her to a hospital on December 20.

Meghan Markle, who had left for Canada last week to be with the couple's eight-month-old son Archie, is expected to join over the telephone for crisis talks hosted by Queen Elizabeth II.

Qureshi on Sunday embarked on a two-day visit to Iran and Saudi Arabia on Prime Minister Imran Khan's direction as part of Pakistan's efforts to defuse the tensions in the Gulf region following the killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in a US dr...

Iran has admitted that its military mistakenly shot down the plane on Wednesday, killing all 176 aboard, at a time when Tehran feared US air strikes.

Ranked by Forbes as the eighth-richest American, Michael Bloomberg has flooded US airwaves and social media feeds with messages that he stands the best chance to beat Trump.

Angela Merkel stressed that the United Nations would lead talks if a meeting were to take place in Berlin, and that Libya's warring parties would need to play a major role to help find a solution.

India paid $23,396,496 net assessment on January 10, becoming only the fourth country to have paid its regular budget assessments in full by February 1 this year within the 30-day due period specified in the Financial Regulation.

Tsai, 63, announced her victory as thousands of jubilant supporters cheered and waved flags outside her party headquarters with the ongoing vote count revealing an all but unassailable lead.

When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced they would be stepping back from their royal duties, many of Britain’s minority residents said that the couple might finally be able to escape the racial abuse that has been heaped upon them by the country’s r...

A child aged around 11 entered the private school with two guns and opened fire on his teacher and classmates before killing himself, according to media reports and the person.