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IS terrorists killed 23 Syrian Kurds including women and children in a village near Kobane.

General Raheel Sharif apprised the Prime Minister of the ongoing Zarb-e-Azb military operation against the terrorists. The meeting reviewed internal and external security situation of the country, according to an official statement.

US President Barack Obama has said Americans stand united in rejecting the targeting of any religious group as he opened the White House to Muslim Americans for a traditional Iftar dinner during the holy month of Ramadan.

Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) on Tuesday recaptured a district in northern province of Kunduz which Taliban terrorists seized over the weekend, killing over 80 rebels, provincial government spokesman said.

A Europe-wide police force will be formed to check the social media propaganda of ISIS. Around 50, 000 accounts are allegedly linked to IS, putting put 100, 000 tweets a day.

The European Central Bank has expanded emergency funding to keep the Greek banking system from collapsing. No deal has been struck between the government and EU as yet.

A Congressional resolution introduced in the US House of Representatives by Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard in Washington commemorated the inaugural International Yoga Day.

The damage to the economy will require sustained financial support and effective recovery programmes to create a more resilient Nepal and to target support at those most in need, the World Bank said.

Jeb Bush has launched a Republican presidential bid months in the making with a vow to get Washington "out of the business of causing problems".

Mt Qomolangma, the Tibetan/Chinese name for Mt Everest, has moved 40 cms to the northeast over the past ten years, including three cms during the April 25 and May 12 quakes, China's National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation said.

Bangladesh and India will fix the transit fees as per WTO rules in exchange for facilitating connectivity for India's land-locked northeastern states, Finance Minister AMA Muhith has said.

Just 12 people survived the Yangtze River cruise ship capsizing in which 442 people perished, state media reported, giving a final toll for the disaster and blaming an earlier miscount of the survivors on confusion between government agencies.

Chinese experts have completed restoration of an 800-year-old Buddha statue, famous for its 1,000 hands, located in the country's southwest province after seven years.

Protests were held across Pakistan's Sindh province to voice anger over what people described as "Indian war hysteria and inhuman brutalities being meted out to the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar".

Russia on Thursday warned the United States of consequences if it moves to deploy land-based missiles in Europe in contravention of a key Cold-War era arms control treaty.

Jihadists continue to run slave markets for girls abducted during fresh offensives, but there are no figures on the numbers enslaved by the fighters.