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US President-elect Donald Trump has assured Afghanistan's leader in a phone call that his administration stands ready to up support to the country if necessary, a Kabul statement said on Saturday.

Wrapping up a two-day visit to Colombia, US Vice President Joe Biden expressed hope that bilateral relations between the two nations will not be weakened after President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January.

A man who may have been a faculty member at the University of Southern California was stabbed to death on the downtown Los Angeles campus on Friday, and a suspect was taken into custody, authorities said.

In reference to Donald Trump's conversation with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, an influential US Congressman has said that the President-elect is unlikely to push back against Pakistan after he takes office.

President-elect Donald Trump, who already has filled the core of his cabinet with multimillionaires, Friday announced a new advisory council stacked with Wall Street and corporate leaders.

As many as 21 workers trapped in a coal mine in China after an explosion four days ago were confirmed dead on Saturday while one was still trapped.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls emerged on Friday as the possible standard bearer of the ruling Socialists in France's presidential election following Francois Hollande's shock announcement that he would not seek a second term.

French authorities have warned the officials of the country's political parties of potential Russian cyber-attacks during the presidential election campaign, local media reports said.

An Italian doctor and his nurse lover arrested this week near Milan are suspected of killing dozens of people from 2011-2014, including the woman's husband, prosecutors said on Thursday.

Roscosmos says in a statement on Thursday that the Progress MS-04 cargo craft crashed at the altitude of 190 kilometers (118 miles) over the remote Russian Tyva region that borders Mongolia.

"Why were the documents hidden?" the court asked Akram Sheikh, the lawyer for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's children.

Gen Raheel Sharif, who retired as Pakistan's army chief on Tuesday, was an important partner of the US in the war against terror, said a top Republican Senator.

According to a Pakistani media report earlier this week, apart from deciding to use the Gwadar Port for trade to have access to warm waters, Russia also wants to join the USD 46 billion CPEC to reap maximum dividends.

As nearly 500,000 children are living under siege amid escalating violence across Syria, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has called for lifting sieges and allowing immediate humanitarian access.

Theresa May admitted on Sunday that of all of the challenges she faces as Britain's Prime Minister, it is the challenge of how to make Britain "a country that works for everyone" after Brexit that keeps her awake at night.

President-elect Donald Trump claimed on Sunday that he not only won the electoral vote but the popular vote as well, if the "millions" of "illegal" votes cast for his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, in the November 8 election are deducted from the tall...