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A Pakistani anti-terrorism court exempted the mastermind of 2008 Mumbai attack Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi from appearing in-person because of "serious threats to his life."

Banks will be closed and the stock market shut all week, and there will be a daily 60 euro limit on cash withdrawals from cash machines, which will reopen on Tuesday.

Indian-origin US Presidential hopeful Bobby Jindal criticized President Obama and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton's support of gay marriage saying that it was driven by opinion polls rather than conviction.

The fire erupted at the Formosa Water Park in New Taipei City near the island's capital and was quickly brought under control.

At least seven people were buried alive under tonnes of mud, while others were drowned in gushing waters from upstream and crushed under trees on Friday.

The German regulator has been investigating Deutsche Bank and the role it played during the financial crisis when a global inter-bank lending rate mechanism was being manipulated.

By essentially defaulting on its debt mountain, Greece would likely see its banks collapse, as they depend on emergency European Central Bank funding.

"Emirates flight EK413 from Sydney to Dubai...was diverted to Colombo due to a technical fault," the airline said in a statement without giving details about the nature of the problem.

France's interior minister, in a bid to halt a day of sometimes violent protests by taxi drivers angered by UberPop, has said that the low-cost car service must be shut down.

The statements came after a scathing report in BBC alleged that India provided funds and training to the MQM.

Quoting from an interview given by Benazir, Dogra goes to say how she dismissed the idea of Major General Pervez Musharraf, the then DGMO, about such an operation.

The Israeli air force struck a militant target in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the military said, hours after Palestinians fired a rocket into southern Israel.

A UN report says that Indians in its peacekeeping operations were involved in three substantiated cases of sexual exploitation or abuse between 2010 and 2013.

Strong storms that swept across northern Illinois spawned several possible tornadoes, severely damaged homes.

Jeremiah Mathis Thede, 42, from Berkeley, California, appeared at Coleraine Magistrates Court charged with endangering the safety of an aircraft, disruptive behaviour on board an aircraft and common assault against a female cabin crew member.

Violence has spiralled in Afghanistan since the departure of most foreign forces at the end of 2014 as the insurgents push to take territory more than 13 years after the US-led military intervention that toppled the Taliban from power.