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Middle East News: BEIRUT: Lebanon used an Arab economic meeting Friday to urge the Arab League to restore Syria's membership, calling it a "historic shame" to keep the .

Pakistan News: ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will host the next round of talks between the US and Afghan Taliban in Islamabad, it was decided on Friday during a meeting betwee.

Pakistan News: ISLAMABAD: Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday raised the Kashmir issue during his meeting with the visiting UN General Assembly .

South Asia News: KABUL: A former national security adviser entered Afghanistan's presidential race on Friday, seeking to unseat his former boss President Ashraf Ghani .

France will put 14 people on trial over suspected connections to deadly attacks in and around Paris in January 2015, including an attack on the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, a judicial source said on Friday.

Chief of U.S.Naval Operations Adm.John Richardson told reporters Friday that China should not see U.S.naval operations in the area as a threat.Richardson, who held meetings in China earlier this week, said he stressed to Chinese officials that communication channels are useful in de-escalating tensions.

US News: Moscow: A Belarusian model who claimed she had proof of Russian collusion with the Trump election campaign was in custody Friday after police "dragged.

Parameswaran is the only Indian American among the 12 members the president intents to appoint to the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Based in New York, Parameswaran is the Group Chief Financial Officer and president of Eros International's North America operations

Swedish Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Diana Kudhaib said the talks included North Korea's Deputy Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui but declined to give further details. Sweden's TT news agency said US special envoy for North Korea Stephen Biegun and Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom also were attending.

President Ivan Duque, visiting the academy in the aftermath, was careful not to attribute blame to any armed group even while condemning what he called a "miserable" terrorist act that recalled some of bloodiest chapters of Colombia's recent past

As China grapples with the continued slowdown of its economy amid the trade war with the US, an influential member of the ruling Communist Party of China has reminded the CPC of the collapse of the former Soviet Union and warned against repeating mistakes that led to its demise.

France is spending 50 million euros ($57 million) to beef up security at airports and the Eurotunnel and hiring hundreds of extra customs officers. Portugal is opening special airport lanes for British travellers, the nation's main source of tourists. Germany is fast-tracking a debate on solving bureaucratic problems if there is no Brexit deal.

Michael Cohen, a former lawyer for US President Donald Trump, said on Thursday he paid a firm to manipulate online polling data "at the direction of and for the sole benefit of" Trump.

British Queen Elizabeth II's 97-year-old husband Prince Philip emerged unscathed after a vehicle he was driving was involved in a traffic accident that injured two people on Thursday, according to Buckingham Palace and police. "The Duke was not injured. The accident took place close to the Sandringham Estate. Local police attended the scene," the palace said in a statement.

There are 70 days left for Brexit but less than 40 sitting days of Parliament. May is instead hoping to cobble together a majority coalition to get a new deal through. On Thursday, House of Commons leader Andrea Leadsom announced that a vote on May's "plan B" would take place on January 29.