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Amid continuing political impasse in Jammu and Kashmir, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti has called a crucial party meeting on Sunday which is expected to deliberate on the issue of future alliance with the BJP.

Though it was the executions of Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent Shi-ite cleric and three other Shi’ite Muslims, which drove up sectarian tension with Shi-ite power Iran, analysts say they were meant mostly to send a signal to militant Sunnis.

South Korea resumed broadcasting messages critical of Kim from speakers lined up along the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, and it sharply curtailed access to a jointly run industrial park on the northern side of the border.

Junior doctors at state-run National Health Service hospitals in the United Kingdom began a strike on Tuesday over government plans to impose a new contract changing how they are paid and reducing compensation for evening and weekend work.

“Though Turkish intelligence, security offices are doing their best 24/7 fighting with ISIS, it is not easy for any country, for any intelligence service, for any security measures to stop all attacks”, said one official in the Turkish prime minister’s office....

One person was killed, with another said to be in hospital in critical condition.

The alleged hydrogen bomb test by North Korea has set tongues wagging.

“Energy plays Marathon (NYSE:MRO) and CONSOL (NYSE:C=” rel=”5906″ NYSE:CNX) were slammed, losing 8.45 and 6.1% respectively, as the price of oil fell below US$30 a barrel.

Junior doctors across south west London and north east Surrey protested in the freezing cold against new contracts they fear would endanger patients in the first doctors’ strike in 40 years on Tuesday.

Rick Snyder pledged Monday that officials would make contact with every household in Flint to check whether residents have bottled water and a filter and want to be tested for lead exposure while his embattled administration works on a long-term solution to the city’s water...

The US House of Representatives voted 253-166 this week to overturn a controversial rule to protect America’s clean water in spite of a growing scandal in Flint, Michigan over poisonous levels of lead.

The leader’s reshuffle claimed its second victim after more than 30 hours of apparently bitter internal battling over the shape of the shadow cabinet.

The UN is expected today to confirm Iran’s compliance with last July’s landmark nuclear deal, allowing the lifting of sanctions and what Iran’s foreign minister called a “good day for the world”.

Iran is expecting worldwide sanctions to be lifted on Saturday, with an announcement by the United Nations nuclear agency that Tehran has complied with a deal to scale back its nuclear programme.

Arab foreign ministers, with the exception of Lebanon, condemned in a Sunday statement what they called Iran’s meddling in Arab affairs.