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The World Bank has announced an additional USD 1.5 billion aid package for Iraq, to help the war-torn country implement reforms, improve public services and boost its economy.

For decades Pakistan’s successive federal governments have been issuing Gulf sheikhs with permits to hunt migratory Houbara bustards, an endangered species.

German media on Tuesday said suspect in Berlin Christmas market attack was 23-year-old from Pakistan named as Naved B who arrived in Germany a year ago as an asylum seeker.

Security forces have arrested more than 300 people during protests and lootings over the elimination of Venezuela's largest currency bill, President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday.

Russia wants India and Pakistan to resolve all their differences, including the Kashmir issue, through peaceful means, the Russian envoy said in Islamabad on Saturday.

A very strong earthquake has struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea, and a tsunami threat has been issued to areas near the epicenter.

Desperate Venezuelans looted delivery trucks and clashed with police as a botched plan to introduce new banknotes left people without cash -- the latest shortage in a spiraling economic crisis.

President Barack Obama has declared that Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime, Iran and Russia are responsible for the carnage in Aleppo and argued there was nothing Washington could have done to stop the war, short of a military takeover of Syria.

British Prime Minister Theresa May wants an early deal on Britons living in the European Union countries, the media reported on Friday.

President Barack Obama said Thursday the United States will retaliate against Russian hacking aimed at interfering in the US election.

A separate record ? that of the highest significant wave height as measured by ship observation ? was measured in February 2000 in the Rockall Trough, also in the North Atlantic between the UK and Iceland.

The leaders of France and Germany, speaking two days before an EU summit which will discuss the conflict in eastern Ukraine, said they want to extend sanctions against Russia due to a lack of progress in implementing a ceasefire deal.

The British Home Office was considering cutting international student numbers at Britain's universities by nearly half, media reported on Monday.

The British Home Office was considering cutting international student numbers at Britain's universities by nearly half, media reported on Monday.

The European Union (EU) and Cuba on Monday signed a deal to normalise ties that had been blocked for decades by human rights concerns under revolutionary icon Fidel Castro.

Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar has been appointed chief of Pakistan's powerful spy agency ISI as part of the first major reshuffle in the military's top brass after new army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa took over the reins last month.