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Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday called a new Israeli law legalising dozens of Jewish outposts built on private Palestinian land an "attack against our people".

Donald Trump's administration has appealed a federal judge's order that blocked the US president's ban on travellers from seven Muslim-majority nations.

Chinese military activity will not be allowed at the Hambantota port considering concerns from India, Sri Lankan ambassador on Saturday said, playing down protests by hundreds of opposition supporters over handing of 80 per cent stakes of the strategic po...

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull might receive a short-term boost after his infamous phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump but is likely to be the long-term political loser, analysts and rights advocates said on Friday.

Hillary Rodham Clinton will publish a new book of personal essays which will include her experiences in the 2016 presidential campaign.

Supporters of Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed launched protests in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi against the government's decision which they say was taken under pressure from the US and India.

"Implementing any sort of religious preference for admittance would be fundamentally unconstitutional and any permanent blanket ban based on national-origin would be illegal," HAF executive director Suhag Shukla said.

The Defence Department has pledged to lobby for US entry of Iraqis who supported the American military after President Donald Trump barred nationals from Iraq and six other countries with Muslim majorities.

The lawsuit against Trump, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and high-ranking Trump administration officials was filed in federal court in Seattle.

Trump's temporary halt to the U.S. refugee program — the most consequential policy he's unveiled in his presidency's opening days — wreaked havoc at airports and sparked protests across the country.

Turkey on Monday opened the biggest trial yet over the failed July coup aimed at ousting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, trying 270 suspects including, in absentia, the alleged mastermind Fethullah Gulen.

“Muslim-Canadians are an important part of our national fabric, and these senseless acts have no place in our communities, cities and country."

This is for the first time that the Trump Administration has publicly acknowledged about considering putting Pakistan into that list.

Fatima Jinnah University professor Salman Haider was the first to disappear, followed by bloggers Waqas Goraya, Aasim Saeed and Ahmed Raza Naseer and anti-extremism activist Samar Abbas.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday it was no time to build walls between nations and criticised steps towards cancelling world trade agreements, without naming new U.S. President Donald Trump.

The clock's minute hand is assessed each year, and the clock's time "conveys how close we are to destroying our civilisation with dangerous technologies of our own making," the Bulletin said on its website.