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Khan could join George Weah, one of Africa's greatest footballers who took over as president of Liberia earlier this year, as the only other international sports personality to head his country's government.

While Moscow's efforts to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election are widely known, spy services from China, Russia and Iran, along with their proxy hackers, also are hard at work trying to steal trade secrets and proprietary information from the Un...

The Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News and Jewish Telegraph said in a joint editorial titled "United We Stand" that the Labour Party had shown a tolerance of anti-Semitism since Corbyn was elected leader of the party in 2015.

Pompeo said after the summit the United States hoped to achieve "major disarmament" by North Korea by the end of Trump's current term in office, which ends Jan. 20, 2021, but subsequently said he would not put a timeline on talks.

The two leaders had held their first bilateral summit in Helsinki, Finland on July 16, vowing a fresh start to troubled relations between their countries.

Out of the four provinces of Pakistan, Punjab, is the most populous and also has the maximum number of the National Assembly seats. With 141 seats, the province sends more than half the lawmakers to the NA and would prove decisive in the race.

The 2013 elections represent Pakistan's first ever democratic transfer of power. Nawaz Sharif, who went into exile after the 1999 coup but returned to the country in 2007, wins the contest in his most stunning comeback yet, becoming prime minister for the...

Mars is already brighter than usual and will shine even more and appear bigger as Tuesday nears. Astronomers expect good viewing through early August. NASA said that won't happen again until 2287.

The rise of PTI is explained both by decline of PML-N as well as decline in votes of other parties (as well as share of Independents in the voting pattern), Gallup Pakistan said.

According to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), 3,459 candidates are contesting for 272 general seats of the National Assembly, while 8,396 candidates are running for 577 general seats of the four provincial assemblies - Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan...

Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said on Tuesday that China hopes the US government will urge businesses to follow China's requirements.

The Pakistan Army has said it would deploy 371,388 troops at 85,000 polling stations for the July 25 election. In the run up to the election, the country was hit by a series of terror attacks on candidates and campaign rallies, including one that killed 1...

The stigma over tattoos has long faded in the West, with everyone from college kids to celebrities and athletes happy to display their body art in public.

The strong perception in and around Pakistan is that the Army, or the establishment as it is called in the Islamic Republic, has thrown its weight behind Imran Khan’s PTI. Simultaneously, top PML(N) leaders, including former PM Nawaz Sharif and his daught...

Of the total 272 National Assembly seats, 141 fall in Punjab, the most populous province of Pakistan.