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Nepalese Foreign Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat, addressing a press conference, said Saarc member states must be sensitive towards holding the Summit by ensuring the participation of every member.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has offered to act as a mediator between India and Pakistan to help the nuclear-armed neighbours resolve their disputes.

The flurry on Twitter began shortly after 3 a.m. on the East Coast when Trump complained about stories about his campaign based on anonymous sources and told his supporters not to believe them.

Saudi Arabia has warned of "disastrous consequences" from a United States law allowing 9/11 victims to sue the kingdom, in a major spike in tension between the longstanding allies.

Police say several people have been taken to the hospital but that they cannot provide details about how many were shot or the severity of their injuries.

Scotland Yard were investigating on Saturday after reports that 3,000 photographs had been hacked from Pippa Middleton, sister-in-law of Britain's Prince William, and someone was trying to sell them.

Even as Russian troops arrived in Pakistan for the first-ever joint military exercise by the Cold War rivals, Moscow has said it sees no reason for India to be concerned about the drill.

Britain's foreign intelligence service is to get 40 percent more spies in one of the biggest expansions since the Cold War as MI6 seeks to harness new technology, the BBC said.

Donald Trump Jr., the son of Republican nominee Donald Trump, tweeted out a graphic on Monday night that compared Syrian refugees to Skittles.

North Korea has carried out a successful ground test for a new high-power rocket engine.

A UN humanitarian aid convoy in Syria was hit by airstrikes, UN officials said, as the Syrian military declared that the week-long US-Russian brokered ceasefire had failed.

Around 3,31,000 persons were relocated in Fujian, where authorities estimate the direct economic losses to be $2.6 billion.

The Pakistan delegation also termed India's focus on Balochistan at the UN as "open interference in Pakistan's internal affairs".

My hope would be the presidential elect, election reflects more serious issues than that," Obama said.

On the top of the agenda, his meting with Modi is scheduled for Friday at the Hyderabad House which will be followed by signing some agreements and a joint press briefing.

Schools and kindergartens in coastal cities of Fuzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and Putian in Fujian were closed yesterday as a precaution.