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New Pakistan PM Khan calls for austerity; wants bullet-proof cars sold 20 Aug 2018 - 06:16 pm
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan, speaks to the nation in his first televised address in Islamabad, Pakistan August 19, 2018. (Press Information Department (PID)/Handout via REUTERS)
Pakistan's 21-member Cabinet is sworn in; PM promises change 20 Aug 2018 - 06:00 pm
Pakistan's new Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi listens during a news conference at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, Pakistan August 20, 2018. (REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood)
Shots fired at US embassy in Turkish capital, no casualties 20 Aug 2018 - 04:03 pm
 A car passes by a security booth with a bullet hole in a window, at the entrance of the US Embassy, in Ankara, on August 20, 2018. (AFP)
Avnery, Israeli peace activist who met Arafat, dies aged 94 20 Aug 2018 - 01:32 pm
File photo of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat shakeing hands with the head of Israeli peace delegation Uri Avneri (L) in the West Bank City of Ramallah, January 22, 2002. REUTERS/Osama Silwadi/File Photo
Three people injured as car mounts pavement in Spain, driver flees 20 Aug 2018 - 01:23 pm
Catalan regional police (Mossos d'Esquadra) forces stand guard outside the apartment building of a man who tried to attack a police station in Cornella near the northeastern Spanish city of Barcelona on August 20, 2018.  / AFP / LLUIS GENE
Colorado prosecutors set to charge man for murdering family 20 Aug 2018 - 01:03 pm
Chrisopher Watts, 33, arrested on suspicion of murdering his pregnant wife and two young daughters, in Frederick, Colorado, U.S., is shown in this handout photo provided August 16, 2018. Weld County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS
France's Total has officially left Iran: oil minister 20 Aug 2018 - 12:46 pm
File photo of the logo of Total. Reuters
Afghan forces free 149 hostages taken by Taliban in ambush 20 Aug 2018 - 12:40 pm
File photo shows Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers search vehicles at a checkpoint. (AFP / NOORULLAH SHIRZADA / File photo)
Tears as North and South Koreans meet after decades 20 Aug 2018 - 12:37 pm
Inter-Korean family reunion participants prepare to depart for North Korea from a hotel resort in Sokcho on August 20, 2018. / AFP / Ed JONES
Iran to unveil new fighter jet, develop missiles - minister 19 Aug 2018 - 09:29 pm
A handout picture released by Iran's Defence Ministry on August 13, 2018 shows Defence Minister, Brigadier General Amir Hatami, standing by the next generation short-range ballistic missile
Pakistan's largest province gets new chief minister 19 Aug 2018 - 09:18 pm
A journalist poses with a cell phone displaying Imran Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, speaking to the nation in his first televised address, in Karachi, Pakistan August 19, 2018. (REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro)
Trump says 'nothing to hide' from Special Counsel Mueller 19 Aug 2018 - 06:20 pm
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters upon his departure from the White House in Washington, U.S., August 17, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Afghanistan announces Eid ceasefire with Taliban 19 Aug 2018 - 05:59 pm
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan July 15, 2018. (REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail/File Photo)
Women win primaries in record numbers, look to November 19 Aug 2018 - 04:30 pm
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Eight years late, Palestinian mail arrives in West Bank 19 Aug 2018 - 04:10 pm
Ramadan Ghazawi, a Palestinian official at the central international exchange post office in the West Bank city of Jericho, holds up a damaged parcel, one of many items of previously undelivered mail dating as far back as 2010 which has been withheld by I
800,000 displaced in flooding in southern Indian state 19 Aug 2018 - 01:05 pm
This picture taken on August 18, 2018 shows a view of a flooded area in the north part of Kochi, in the Indian state of Kerala. / AFP / STR
Tributes pour in for former UN chief and Nobel laureate Kofi Annan 19 Aug 2018 - 12:48 pm
In this file photo taken on June 22, 2012 Arab League Special Envoy for Syria, Kofi Annan, listens to the media questions during a press conference at the United Nations Office in Geneva. / AFP / SEBASTIEN BOZON
Britain's May could face trouble over Brexit deal, Conservative lawmaker warns 19 Aug 2018 - 12:32 pm
File photo of Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May returns to Downing Street from the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, June 12, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo