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Pakistan had sought another $1 billion in loans to stabilise its foreign currency reserves. (AFP)

WASHINGTON: 

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on Monday that any potential International Monetary Fund bailout for Pakistan's new government should not provide funds to pay off Chinese lenders.

In an interview with CNBC television, Pompeo said

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Hikers were able to start climbing down on Monday through a route unaffected by landslides (Reuters)

Mataram, Indonesia: 

More than 500 hikers and their guides have been successfully evacuated from an Indonesian volcano after a deadly earthquake triggered landslides that trapped them on the mountain, officials said Tuesday.

Tonnes of rock and mud

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Tosya Gharibyan asked her husband to dig a basement. He dug her an underground labyrinth (AFP)

Arinj, Armenia: 

When Tosya Gharibyan asked her husband to dig a basement under their house to store potatoes, she had little idea the underground labyrinth he would eventually produce would prove to be one of Armenia's major tourist draws.

Their one-storey

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The children's bodies were found under a wet blanket.

Ed Bledsoe had just left to run an errand when he received a phone call. It was his wife, who was at home with their two great-grandchildren.

Come back, she told him, because the fire was closing in on their home. On the phone with him as he rushed back home was his 5-year-old great-grandson, who

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is looking to encourage foreign investment

Riyadh: 

Saudi Arabia's King Salman arrived for a holiday in NEOM, the $500 billion flagship business zone that his son and heir apparent has pledged to build from scratch in a remote corner of the kingdom, state media said on Monday.

The royal family has traditionally

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According to a study, a majority of animal poisonings in Italy involve dogs.

When a 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the central Italian town of Amatrice two years ago, Fabiano Ettore and his German shepherd, Kaos, were among the first to join in the rescue efforts. Kaos, who was just over a year old at the time, worked for days with other dogs to

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