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Uighurs in Xinjiang, who number around 10 million, say they face cultural and religious restrictions. Uighurs in Xinjiang, who number around 10 million, say they face cultural and religious restrictions.

The tribunal would be "an effective guarantee for an independent and impartial accountability process," the draft resolution said.

Malaysian authorities nabbed two suspected IS operatives, planning to carry out attacks against western interests and entertainment outlets.

IMF MD Lagarde said, "... it's certainly my view that the IMF has to follow its rules... and should always be even-handed, there cannot be any special treatment."

The number of prescriptions for Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs has risen by more than a quarter in a year in Britain.

India's rural employment guarantee programme MNREGA has been ranked as the world's largest public works programme by the World Bank.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had a final chance to present credible reform proposals to an emergency euro zone summit.

Greece and its membership in Europe's joint currency faced an uncertain future on Monday.

a Swiss railway company has come up with a series of graphic illustrations for visitors from Asia and the Middle East to instruct them how to sit on a toilet seat.

According to WHO and UNICEF 2.4 billion people - one out of every three inhabitants of the planet - still have no access to sanitation facilities.

A two-member Scotland Yard team arrived in IslamaBad to investigate the murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Imran Farooq in London in 2010.

The IMF Executive Board took the decision on Friday in Washington after the seventh review of Pakistan's economy for the period of January-March, 2015.

Gay and lesbian couples in Washington and across the nation are celebrating Friday's ruling, which will put an end to same-sex marriage bans in the 14 states that still maintain them.

"He entered by the beach, dressed like someone who was going to swim, and he had a beach umbrella with his gun in it. Then when he came to the beach he used his weapon," Chelly, a witness said.

The man, who has been living in Italy, is accused of t aking part in the attack in 2009 in which 134 died, including many women and children. He was held at Rome's Fiumicino airport after stepping off a flight from Pakistan.

Tents offering iced water and rehydration salts have mushroomed on street corners, run by rival political parties and the military.