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A Pakistani Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row has been freed from prison, her lawyer says. Some reports say Asia Bibi has boarded a plane but its destination was not known.   The Supreme Court ruling sparked protests from Islamists and the government had said it would bar her from leaving Pakistan.   Her ...

Eleven people were killed and 44 injured Wednesday when two buses collided on a road between Mauritania’s capital Nouakchott and the central city of Aleg, doctors and police said. Five passengers died in the crash and six more on their way to hospital in Aleg, a doctor said.   The 11 comprised six Mauritanians, two Ivorians, two Togolese and an ...

 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been fired by President Donald Trump. “We thank Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his service, and wish him well!” Mr Trump tweeted on Wednesday.   The president had repeatedly criticised his top law enforcement official after he recused himself from the Russia investigation dogging the White House.   Mr Trump said Mr Sessions will ...

A Bangladeshi immigrant was convicted Tuesday of setting off a pipe bomb in New York City’s busiest subway station, disputing in court that he was supporting the Islamic State group and saying he was instead motivated by anger at President Donald Trump.   The unusual outburst by Akayed Ullah, who was convicted in Manhattan federal court of supporting the terrorist ...

Somali refugee Ilhan Omar and social worker Rashida Tlaib, born to Palestinian immigrant parents, will be the first Muslim women in US Congress U.S. Democratic congressional candidate Ilhan Omar poses for a group photo with campaign volunteers in Minneapolis. Chicago, Nov 7 : US voters are poised to elect two Muslim women to Congress in the midterm election next week, ...

A Malaysian court is scheduled Wednesday to set a new date for starting the defense phase of the trial for two Southeast Asian women charged with murdering the North Korean leader’s half brother. A High Court judge in August found there was enough evidence to infer that Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, along with four missing North ...

Staring down the potential loss of one-party control in Washington, President Donald Trump declared Tuesday’s election results a “tremendous success” for Republicans as his party maintained its hold on the Senate while Democrats picked up GOP-held seats in the House. Trump waited until late in the night to weigh in on the midterm vote, tweeting a succinct message that overlooked ...

US Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi vowed Tuesday to impose new “checks and balances” on Donald Trump’s administration — but also signaled it would not be all-out war with Republicans after her party seized the lower house of Congress. “Today is more than about Democrats and Republicans. It’s about restoring the constitution’s checks and balances to the Trump administration,” Pelosi told ...

An Afghan official says the Taliban have killed eight police and wounded three others in new attacks on security posts in western Farah province. An insurgent attack on an Afghan border base in Pusht Koh in Farah on Monday killed 20 troops while 20 others were abducted.   A member of the provincial council, Dadullah Qani, says the latest attack ...

Greg Pence, the older brother of US Vice President Mike Pence, won a seat in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday soon after polls began closing in the midterm elections. The 61-year-old businessman and military veteran claimed victory for the Republicans in the district his younger brother once held in Indiana.   Prior to becoming Donald Trump’s vice president, ...