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Ambassador Cui Tiankai told reporters at an embassy event: "Honestly, I think the United States should be doing ... much more than now, so that there's real effective international cooperation on this issue."

Pakistan has also been targeted by the Islamic State in Khorasan province. IS has claimed several brutal attacks on the country's Shiite community, sending suicide bombers to shrines they frequent, killing scores of devotees.

Passengers on board a train heading into the capital fled as fire engulfed a carriage at Parsons Green underground station in West London after the explosion.

"We are there for you 100 percent," Trump said before donning gloves and helping to hand out sandwiches to local residents from a lunch line under a canopy. "I'll be back here numerous times. This is a state that I know very well."

J.P. Donleavy, the incorrigible Irish-American author and playwright whose ribald debut novel "The Ginger Man" met scorn and censorship but later was embraced as a groundbreaking classic, has died at age 91.

A crackdown by Myanmar's army, launched in response to attacks by Rohingya militants on August 25, has pushed vast numbers of refugees from the stateless Muslim minority across the border.

The Express Tribune and its sister publication Daily Express reported that the US has hinted at imposing sanctions on Pakistani officials allegedly having links with militants.

Edith Windsor died in New York, said her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan. The cause of death wasn't given, but she had struggled with heart issues for years.

Climate scientists have said warmer air and water resulting from climate change may have contributed to the severity of the storms. The US Environmental Protection Agency has disputed such claims as an attempt to “politicize” natural disasters.

Thousands of 9/11 victims' relatives, survivors, rescuers and others are expected to gather Monday at the World Trade Center to remember the attack. Observances also are planned at the Pentagon and the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pennsyl...

"They did it against all the rules, what's happening here?" Saakashvili told reporters in Medyka when he was initially refused entry, adding: "We hope that we can still break through."

"We may have been a little bit lucky in that it went on the west and it may not have been quite as destructive, but we're going to see," said Donald Trump.

The US wants the Security Council to impose an oil embargo on North Korea, ban its exports of textiles and the hiring of North Korean labourers abroad, and to subject leader Kim Jong Un to an asset freeze and travel ban

Throughout the week, South Korean officials have warned the North could launch another intercontinental ballistic missile, in defiance of U.N. sanctions and amid an escalating standoff with the United States.

The USGS said the 8.1 magnitude quake had its epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, 54 miles (87 km) southwest of the town of Pijijiapan in the impoverished southern state of Chiapas, at a depth of 43 miles.

Catalan lawmakers are due to vote later on Wednesday on the referendum law and the legal framework needed to set up an independent state from Spain. The laws will likely be approved because pro-independence parties have a majority in the regional parliame...