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Taiwan is among a growing number of flashpoints in the US-China relationship, which include a trade war, US sanctions and China's increasingly muscular military posture in the South China Sea.

Previously, India and China were not included in the free visa category. Plans had been made to exempt several European countries from visa fee, but the implementation of this process had been delayed due to the deadly attacks.

Bhutan has seen a more than five-fold increase in cars, buses and trucks on its roads in the past two decades, with one car for every seven people in a country which has a total population of 750,000.

France, Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark support a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait after Britain proposed the idea following Iran's seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker.

The seizure of the British oil tanker has been seen as a tit-for-tat move after British authorities detained an Iranian tanker on July 4 in the Mediterranean on suspicion it was shipping oil to Syria in breach of EU sanctions.

Of those who died, 19 were found piled on top of each other on a stairway, with some early reports suggesting it could not be opened from the inside.

For the last two days, a group of Baloch youths have been running a mobile billboard campaign urging President Donald Trump to help end 'enforced disappearances' in Pakistan.

Johnson, former London mayor has wooed Conservatives with a promise to get Britain out of the European Union and if elected party leader, he will take over from Theresa May as prime minister on Wednesday.

The US Defence Department confirmed the move in a statement, saying it would deploy troops and resources to Saudi Arabia to 'provide an additional deterrent' in the face of 'emergent, credible threats.'

At least eight people were killed on Friday when a bomb exploded near a major university in Kabul while students were waiting to take an exam.

Officials said that Egypt's air force on Friday hit more than 100 mountainous hideouts of militant groups in the city of El-Arish and the small town of Bir al-Abd.

The National Accountability Bureau claimed that billions of rupees were transferred to the company through fake bank accounts. The company also took loans of billions of rupees from banks using the political clout of Zardari

Berkeley leaders voted unanimously this week to replace about 40 gender-specific words in the city code with gender-neutral terms — an effort to be more inclusive that's drawing both praise and scorn.

The US legislative committee highlighted that the 26/11 terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed had been living freely in Pakistan and there was no search operation underway for ten years, as stated by Donald Trump.

Mandela Day was officially declared by the United Nations in November 2009, with the first UN Mandela held on July 18, 2010.

The lawmaker, who represents southern Noakhali district, later deleted the post, saying he did not "understand social media well" and should have hidden the couples' faces.