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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan gave a warm welcome in Islamabad Tuesday to Britain's Prince William, the son of his late friend Princess Diana, who is on his first official trip to the country with his wife Kate.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were greeted with handshakes by a smiling Khan, who first met William when the prince was a young boy, on the steps at the prime minister's house in the capital.

Twenty-eight civilians were killed and 249 injured on polling day alone in Afghanistan's presidential election

Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah (C) claimed victory just two days after the September 28 election and before all votes had even arrived in Kabul for counting

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected U.S. pressure to end the offensive, pledging, "We will not step back."

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures from a police van in May. He has now been ordered to appear in court in person for a hearing on October 21. violation.

Civilians flee amid Turkish bombardment on Syria's northeastern town of Ras al-Ain in the Hasakeh province along the Turkish border on Wednesday

Former US army sergeant DeWitt Osborne, who was wounded by a bomb blast near Baghdad in 2006, points to a painting of himself by former president George W. Bush

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a key ally for President Donald Trump, is angered by the Syria pullout

Afghan children stand in the debris at a school near the site of a Taliban car bomb attack in Kabul on July 2, 2019, a day after the deadly blast that killed at least six people and wounded dozens, including 50 children

Reforms by Uzbekistan's new leader Shavkat Mirziyoyev have won plaudits. But Human Rights Watch says that thousands of people are still imprisoned in Uzbekistan for political reasons

Greece has called on Turkey to "take responsibility" for a renewed wave of migrants to Greece; migrants rest on the Greek Mediterranean island of Lesbos on October 1, 2019, after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey in a dinghy

Taliban Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is in Pakistan for talks with foreign ministry and intelligence officials

The hulking Greek coastguard officer gazed intently as another group of migrants, the fifth of the day, boarded a minibus after landing on a beach on the island of Lesbos."We're taking it day by day," he sighed, amid talk of a new refugee crisis, four years after nearly one million asylum seekers arrived on Europe's doorstep, sparking EU-wide panic.The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) announced on Tuesday that arrivals by sea from Turkey to Greece, mostly Afghan and Syrian families, increased to 10,258 in September.

Turkey's conservative government has already announced more naval patrols in the Aegean

A security guard shows his finger marked with ink as he holds a weapon after casting his vote in Afghanistan's presidential elections. Initial data suggests turnout at a record low

Aid group Oxfam says there are more than 26,200 migrants spread across Greece's islands in the Aegean

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets India's Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar at the State Department

An attendee noted that the former staffer "didn't have anything positive to say about Trump."

A member of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani's campaign team walks past a poster of him his headquarters

Migrants shield their mouths from tear gas during clashes at the Moira refugee camp

Refugees and migrants look at a fire that broke out in the camp of Moria in Mytilene on September 29, 2019