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US President Donald Trump said on Friday he would raise the issue of alleged Russian meddling in US elections during his planned meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki next month.

According to a Pakistani media report, Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khans's cousin Noor Jahan who had filed nomination papers earlier this month to contest for the upcoming general elections in Pakistan has now withdrawn her name.

Kumaraswamy on June 15 instructed officials to release 20,000 cusecs from Kabini dam to Tamil Nadu.

The Paris-based global Financial Action Task Force's (FATF's) decision to place Pakistan on its "grey list" on Wednesday for not doing enough to counter terror financing does not seem to have had much of an impact on Islamabad's behaviour, according to an expert on international affairs.

Years of threats and hateful posts on social media, a conviction for harassment and a lonely life: investigators were Friday piecing together what drove a 38-year-old suburbanite to murder five people at a community newspaper in Maryland.