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The attack comes slightly a year after the horrific one on the Army Public School in Peshawar in December 2014 where armed militants killed over 140 people including over 130 students.

North Korea’s leafleting came as tensions mounted on the Korean peninsula after Pyongyang’s claim on January 6 of its first H-bomb test.

The landslide win of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and its leader Tsai-Ing wen in Saturday’s (Jan 16) elections suggests a growing sense of identity and increasing caution towards China in Taiwan, analysts told Channel NewsAsia.

First horses, then goats and cows, now pigs.

“We will very soon be able to provide the full picture but we call on the public to be vigilant and courageous because now we need to fight and integrate against terrorism as our daily struggle to develop the country”, said Burkina Faso President, Roch Marc Christian...

But despite a briefing by the U.N.’s special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, in a closed meeting on Monday, the Security Council and other countries involved in the conflict have not found consensus on which opposition figures should be invited.

THE man whose torso was found in a suitcase in a canal in Co Kildare was named last night as 33-year-old Kenneth O’Brien from west Dublin.

But in an address to parliament he noted bitter opposition to Saturday’s lifting of economic curbs from arch foe Israel, some members of the U.S. Congress and what he called “warmongers” in the region – an apparent reference to some of Iran’s Gulf...

The court, in a brief written order, said it would consider an appeal by convicted trader Bassam Salman, who was sentenced to three years in prison for trading on inside information he received through family contacts.

Witnesses said men in uniform carried out the kidnapping in broad daylight Saturday, 100 yards (meters) from a police station.

A spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Hossein Jaber Ansari, said “Iran’s missile program has never been created to be capable of carrying nuclear weapons”, according to Iran’s ISNA news agency.

“But these can not be taken for granted, we have learned our lesson the hard way”, he added, calling for an open discussion to protect them in times of change.

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Brett McGurk, a special US presidential envoy tweeted a photo of Jason Rezaian after the American journalist landed in Geneva following his release by Iran.

The United States has imposed sanctions on 11 companies and individuals for supplying Iran’s ballistic missile program, the US Treasury Department says.