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Over 5,500 people have been evacuated the report said. (Representational)

Beijing: 

Twenty people were killed and eight others went missing as torrential rains triggered flood in northwest China, state-run media reported yesterday.

Over 8,700 houses, farmland, roads, railway lines and power and telecommunication facilities were damaged in the floods

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Sporadic protests have simmered ahead of the reimposition of US sanctions. (Representational)

Tehran, Iran: 

Iranian protesters have attacked a religious school in Karaj province near Tehran, the conservative Fars news agency reported Saturday, as sporadic protests simmered ahead of the reimposition of US sanctions.

Iranian authorities have barely

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North Korea, US adopted a disarmament deal at Singapore summit in June this year. (Reuters)

SINGAPORE: 

North Korea and the United States traded blows over implementing a disarmament deal adopted at a landmark summit in June, as Washington called for maintaining sanctions pressure against the North which in turn said it was alarmed at U.S.

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Imran Khan's party has won 116 seats out of the contested 270 parliamentary constituencies. (File)

Islamabad: 

Imran Khan, who is set to become Pakistan's new Prime Minister, may take oath of the office on the country's Independence Day on August 14, a media report said today.

Mr Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) emerged as the single largest

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The United States and China implemented tariffs on $34 billion worth of each others' goods in July (File)

Beijing: 

China's state media said on Saturday the government's retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion of US goods showed rational restraint and they accused the United States of blackmail.

Late on Friday, China's finance ministry unveiled new sets

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Israel's new "nation-state" law has provoked anger among members of its most integrated minority, the Druze, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seek corrective legislation.
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