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Khan's comments follow statements Macron made last week after a French teacher was beheaded near Paris after he had shown cartoons of the Prophet during a class he was leading on free speech.

More than a dozen civilians, including women and children, were killed in Egypts restive northern Sinai Peninsula over the past two weeks from explosive devices laid down in their homes by militants, security and medical officials said Sunday.

New fighting erupted between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces on Sunday over the mountainous enclave of NagornoKarabakh as both sides blamed each other for blocking a peaceful settlement to the conflict.

Prodemocracy protesters in Thailand gathered again Sunday in Bangkok, seeking to keep up pressure on the government a day ahead of a special session of Parliament called to try to ease political tensions.

Afghanistan claimed Sunday it killed a top alQaida propagandist on an FBI mostwanted list during an operation in the country's east, showing the militant group's continued presence there as U.S. forces work to withdraw from America's longestrunning war am...

Polish President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for coronavirus, authorities said on Saturday, and police used tear gas on several occasions as thousands of people protested in Warsaw against restrictions aimed at curbing the surging epidemic.

Istanbul's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu said on Saturday he has been hospitalised after testing positive for coronavirus and suffering a fever.

A Wisconsin appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked Gov. Tony Evers restrictions on indoor public gatherings pending appeal, dealing the Democratic governor a setback in his efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

A former top aid to Texas' attorney general spoke out for the first time Friday since stepping down after accusing the state's top lawyer of crimes including bribery and abuse of office.

James Yantzer strode into a Harbor Freight Tools store in one of North Dakota's worst hot spots for the coronavirus, brushing off a sign telling customers to wear a face mask.

A decadelong U.N. arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets expired Sunday as planned under its nuclear deal with world powers, despite objections from the United States.

The latest premire at the Jewish State Theater in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, explores the horrors of the Holocaust via a survivor's memories of the Auschwitz and Plaszow concentration camps.

Israel is due to send delegates to Bahrain on Sunday to formalise nascent relations and broaden Gulf cooperation that Washington has promoted as an antiIran bulwark and potential economic bonanza.

When President Donald Trump told the world that bad things happen in Philadelphia, it was, in part, a blunt assessment of his party's struggles in the nation's sixthmost populous city.

The prospects for extending the last treaty limiting U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapons deployments appeared to grow bleaker on Friday, with Washington rejecting a Russian proposal for an unconditional oneyear extension as "a nonstarter."

The middle school teacher knifed to death on the street of a Paris suburb on Friday showed his teenage students a cartoon lampooning the Prophet Mohammad as part of a class on freedom of expression earlier this month, parents said.