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Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he welcomed the creation of Ladakh as India's first Buddhist-majority state.

The decision to cancel the citizenship certificates of the eight individuals was taken in a cabinet meeting on ground that they procured citizen certicicate through forged documents.

A Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) bus travelling towards Colombo from Elpitiya collided with a private bus travelling towards Galle around 5.15 am on Sunday.

Friendship Crusade, on April 27, 2011, the General Assembly of the United Nations declared July 30 as official International Friendship Day.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but both the Taliban and the Islamic State group are active in Kabul and regularly target government forces, officials and civilians in the Afghan capital.

Pompeo had on July 29 said that Trump has ordered to reduce the number of American troops in war-torn Afghanistan before the presidential elections in 2020.

Santino William Legan was armed with an AK-47-type assault rifle when he opened fire at random on Sunday at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California.

President Vladimir Putin's top opponent was rushed to hospital on Sunday a day after almost 1,400 people were arrested at an unauthorised protest, in the largest police crackdown on dissent in recent years.

Rhetoric on both sides has hardened despite the agreement by Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in June to revive efforts to end the costly fight over China's technology ambitions and trade surplus.

Around 3,900 wild tigers are left in the world as of today, with 70% of the tiger population found in India.

Trump had attacked Representative Elijah Cummings, a champion for civil rights, in a series of tweets on Saturday, after the lawmaker had criticised conditions at US facilities housing migrants along the Mexican border.

British authorities detained an Iranian tanker off the UK overseas territory of Gibraltar in early July on allegations it was breaching EU sanctions on Syria.

The students aged 9 to 16 years were going to a picnic when their tractor trolley turned turtle injuring 22 students, according to a doctor treating them at hospital.

The Indian had also filmed the exchange and posted it on the Facebook page of the Singapore Police Force. The video was later picked up by other pages and went viral.

The police became suspicious after the rape accused's son couldn't explain how the two got to California's central coast after traveling by air from Scotland to Los Angeles.

The statement by the Taliban came hours after Khan returned to Islamabad after his maiden official visit to the US where he discussed the Afghan peace process with President Donald Trump on Monday and agreed to work together to end to the conflict.