Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar directed Pakistan's UN Permanent Representative Asim Iftikhar to take immediate steps to convene a meeting of the Security Council

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The small minority sect in Syria is caught between hostile Islamists who see them as heretics and an aggressive Israel, which is bombing Syria in the name of protecting them

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The ruling party, which recently commemorated the 50th anniversary of the reunification of the country after the withdrawal of U.S. forces, draws legitimacy from both its historical role in liberation and ending occupation, and its continuing role as an economic moderniser

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PM’s comments come amidst calls for de-escalation, Lavrov, EU FM Kallas speak to Jaishankar, Modi meets Angola President

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Reform, led by anti-immigrant firebrand Nigel Farage, won the by-election in Runcorn and Helsby in northwest England by just six votes, as it picked up gains in other localities, including its first mayoralty.

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The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to being deported

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Brazil's first democratically-elected president after a decades-long dictatorship last week began serving a nine-year sentence for taking bribes while a senator between 2010 and 2014.

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Yulia Svyrydenko said some technical details have to be completed before a joint U.S.-Ukraine investment fund could become operational.

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Saudi Arabia called on ‘both countries to de-escalate, avoid further escalation, and resolve disputes through diplomatic means’; as part of outreach to UN Security Council members, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar called his Danish counterpart, Lars Løkke Rasmussen

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The vote-counting agency Elections Canada has processed nearly all ballots in what turned out to be a razor-close race that will leave the Liberals three seats short of a majority.

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Israeli jets have struck Beirut’s southern suburbs in the third such attack since a ceasefire began in late November

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Western governments have long suspected Iran of pursuing a nuclear weapons capability, an ambition Tehran has consistently denied, insisting its programme is for peaceful purposes only.

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