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MCA accepts SC verdict in toto, Pawar to quit chief's post

Democratic Convention starts today

Munich gunman had no links with Islamic State: City police chief

He was suffering from depression & reportedly undergone psychiatric treatment, says Munich police chief

Saudi executions exceed 100 this year

Amnesty International says the Saudi rate of executions this year is 'higher than at the same point last year'

Angela Merkel accepts Britain's decision to delay triggering Brexit

UK will not be invoking Article 50 before the end of 2016 in order to plan a 'sensible and orderly departure'

Govt optimistic on GST passage

The new MoS Finance says Congress party's demand for capping the GST rate in the Constitution was 'not practical' and the government is trying for a consensus

Missile tests simulated for nuclear strike on South: North Korea

Detonation devices trialled as an angry reaction to deployment of US missile defence system in South; Kim Jong-un monitoring activities

Ministers barred from BCCI

Pawar, Srinivasan hit dead end; Thakur, Shirke will have to quit from state associations

Morocco seeks to rejoin African Union after 32 years

Country's monarch says time has come for it to take up its natural place within the institutional family

Kejriwal attacks Modi, Shah

France attacker called volatile, showed no jihadist links

Witnesses described seeing how Bouhlel purposely steered the truck to hit men, women and children as they tried to flee

UNESCO world heritage meeting in Istanbul suspended: Official

Meeting, which began last Sunday, was deciding whether to give world heritage protection to 29 sites across the world

Brazil to boost Olympics security after Nice attack

Defense Minister Raul Jungmann expressed "worries" over the Nice attack

Supporters of Shiite cleric rally in Baghdad, demand reform

Mostly men in their late teens or early 20s, waved Iraqi flags and chanted slogans as patriotic music blared from loudspeakers

China gives $600 million aid to ally Cambodia

China is a key ally and economic partner of impoverished Cambodia

North Korea arrests defector who 'worked as South Korea agent'

He lived in China for about a year before arriving in the South in 2014 via Laos and Thailand

80 dead, several injured as truck ploughs into crowd in France

Attack took place in Nice region, moments after fireworks display on Bastille Day - a French national holiday

US to offer Russia anti-terror pact in Syria: Report

Any deal between Russia and the United States to fight both groups would in effect strengthen Assad's position

Funerals begin for slain Dallas police officers

A Catholic mass was held for a third officer, Michael Smith, whose funeral is planned for Thursday

Japan palace denies emperor's wish to abdicate

There is no provision in the Japanese constitution for an abdication, apparently a mechanism to prevent the arbitrary replacement of emperors