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The IHS, introduced in April 2015, will rise from 200 pounds to 400 pounds per year, with the discounted rate for students increasing from 150 pounds to 300 pounds, the UK Home Office said.

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) detained Gulalai Ismail on her return from the United Kingdom, Ismat Shahjahan, another activist who went to pick her up at Islamabad's airport, told AFP.

In the dramatic breakout last November, 25 members of the persecuted minority used blankets to climb out of their cells in a daring pre-dawn escape from immigration detention in southern Thailand.

Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, robbed and beaten in 1998, then left to die strapped to a ranch fence in Laramie, Wyoming.

Munir was recently promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General by the Army Promotion Board headed by Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa.

Shehbaz Sahrif has already been in the custody of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore till October 16 in a physical remand in the Rs 1,400 crore Ashiyana housing scam case.

China, an "all-weather ally" of Pakistan, is the largest supplier of the weapon system to the Pakistan Army.

A spokesman for Jean-Claude Juncker, a former premier of Luxembourg, said his improvised performance was "not directed at anyone" and repeated that the Commission president has "great respect" for May.

Vijeyakala Maheswaran, a former lone woman Tamil minister in the Sri Lankan Cabinet, said that Jaffna people felt that they were better off under the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) when they ran a parallel administration.

The French police had said on Friday that they have launched a probe for Meng after being contacted by his wife.

In its report at the direction of the President Donald Trump, the Pentagon said on Friday that while many companies have established their research and development wing in countries like India and China, the latter is different in its approach.

Palu city on Sulawesi island has been left in ruins after it was hit by a powerful quake and a wall of water which flattened houses and flipped over cars, with the confirmed death toll now standing at 1,558.

With less than six months until Britain leaves the EU, Theresa May has yet to reach a deal with the EU on the terms the Brexit divorce.

Two of the Indian Americans received USD 50,000 each as scholarship money and another three got USD 25,000 each.

The US, Mexico and Canada Agreement or USMCA, a jubilant Trump told reporters at the White House, would revive the manufacturing sector in the US and create hundreds and thousands of jobs in America.

The video was viewed more than 1.3 million times in the first 10 hours after it was posted early Sunday with fans lauding the tennis superstar for her bravery in performing the song.