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Described as 'moderate', the shallow quake was eight kilometres (five miles) deep and was followed by five aftershocks.

Amid shouts of 'murderess, murderess' masked men dragged Mayor Arce through the streets. They made her kneel down, cut her hair and doused her in red paint. They also forced her to sign a resignation letter.

Sharif, 69, was admitted to the Services Hospital in Lahore on October 22 from Pakistan's anti-graft body's custody after his platelets dropped to a critical low level of 2,000.

The final-year student of Bibi Asifa Dental College in Sindh province was found dead on a cot by her friends on September 16 with a rope tied to her neck.

Addressing a rally in Louisiana on Wednesday, Trump warned that the country will head towards depression if he is not re-elected in the 2020 polls.

The Democrats are investigating Trump's requests for Ukrainian actions as the US withheld military aid from the country.

Mexican Security Secretary Alfonso Durazo said the gunmen may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for rival gangs.

The international finance has been plunged into a recession by the fallout from the China-US trade war and five months of seething pro-democracy protests that Beijing has taken a hardline approach against.

Xi Jinping's show of support follows speculation that Beijing was preparing to remove Carrie Lam as city authorities struggle to contain pro-democracy demonstrations that have rocked the financial hub.

In one bloody incident outside a mall in the eastern suburb of Taikoo Shing on Sunday, a man with a knife slashed several people and bit off part of a politician's ear.

A two-member bench of the Lahore High Court headed by Justice Ali Baqar Najafi granted Maryam bail in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case of money laundering.

Dhaka had wanted to begin its long-held plan this month to move 100,000 people to the mud-silt island of Bhashan Char, amid growing frustration with the presence of the squalid tent settlements in its southeastern border towns.

An estimated 110,000 Iraqis are waiting to be approved as refugees based on their wartime assistance, but the Donald Trump administration has capped the number eligible this year at 4,000.

Trump's casual announcement, made in response to a reporter's question outside the White House, temporarily created more uncertainty about who was in charge of the sprawling department.

The children, aged nine to 12, included four from what Asir described as a 'Taliban family'. A spokesman for the Taliban was not immediately available for comment.

Right-wing Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman launched the Azadi March along with leaders of other opposition parties on October 27 from the southern Sindh province, demanding Khan's resignation, accusing him of 'rigging' the 2018 gener...