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Police said gunmen targeted a block party, a gathering after a funeral, and other gatherings on a night where thousands of people gathered for a downtown concert.

The anniversary comes amid hopes to denuclearise North Korea after its pledge to do so at the Singapore summit in June.

No drones could be seen in the television broadcast, which showed bodyguards jumping in front of Maduro to protect him with flexible ballistic shields.

Seven people were injured in the apparent attack on Saturday which came as Maduro celebrated the National Guard's 81st anniversary, said Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez.

Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) had initially planned to invite several foreign leaders and personalities, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bollywood superstar Amir Khan and Indian cricketers like Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavasker and Navjot Si...

Ministers from the two Koreas agreed in April to push for a unified delegation from both countries to parade together in the opening ceremony at the Asian Games.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Trump's repudiation of an international nuclear deal reached in 2015 was "illegal" and Iran would not easily yield to Washington's renewed campaign to strangle Iran's vital oil exports.

The meeting, their second since June, held in the border village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone (DMZ), was designed to follow on from an inter-Korean summit in April at which leaders of the two Koreas agreed to defuse tensions and halt "all hostil...

Sharif, 68, was on Sunday shifted to the Cardiac Centre of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) after his health deteriorated due to heart trouble in the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.

Investigators estimated the man to have been about 1.75 metres (five foot nine inches) tall and aged about 30, with his death likely occurring in the spring.

The fire scorched 48,300 acres (19,500 hectares) as it ripped through parts of Shasta County, including Keswick, Whiskeytown and the west side of the city of Redding, displacing more than 38,000 people.

The injured victims have been taken to a hospital, though their conditions were not immediately known.

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake is considered strong and is capable of causing severe damage. Video footage showed ambulances lining the streets of Lombok and many houses damaged with only parts of brick walls standing.

The meeting between Taliban and US Diplomat Alice Wells was an attempt to jump-start talks on ending Washington's longest military engagement.

A large number of the witnesses are executives at banks that lent Manafort money, the accounting firm that did his taxes and others involved in financial dealings.

As of 2 am on Thursday morning, PTI could only muster 109 NA seats. This left the Imran Khan-led outfit 28 seats short of the majority mark of 137 seats.