Reuters

More than 100 people were injured in the three attacks, which targeted Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad.

"There are sanctions that were imposed by Congress. I think the administration will have a hard time getting those removed," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

"At the end of the day, for us to win a national election, we have to do better with Hispanics," presidential candidate and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said.

The man detonated the explosives in a busy square shortly before dusk and the end of the daily Ramadan fast.

The U.S. Army Special Operations Command has categorically denied there is anything nefarious about the drills, saying they are training exercises.

Iraq faces a budget deficit of as much as $20 billion this year as it grapples with low oil revenue and the high cost of war with Islamic State group insurgents.

A rebel general, who was involved in a failed coup attempt in May, told Reuters this week he and his comrades were mobilizing forces to topple President Pierre Nkurunziza.

The latest warning by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) is meant to clamp down on a trick whereby a single investor controls multiple accounts.

Kurdish militants will attack Turkey's dam construction sites in the mainly Kurdish southeast, the group said in a statement late on Saturday, another blow to a fragile peace process meant to end a three-decade insurgency.

Hundreds, possibly thousands, of Uighurs keen to escape unrest in China's western Xinjiang region have traveled clandestinely via Southeast Asia to Turkey.

More than 50 lawyers and activists been detained or questioned by Chinese authorities in the last 48 hours.

Eight elderly people died in a fire that ripped through a care home near Zaragoza in northeastern Spain in the early hours of Sunday, a government official said.

Guzman was arrested last year by Mexican security forces. He also escaped from prison in 2001 after a prior capture in 1993.

The hunger strike by Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan had galvanized Palestinians behind a "battle of empty stomachs" against Israeli detentions without trial.

The deportation of 109 Uighurs from Thailand this week has sparked anger in Turkey, home to a large Uighur diaspora, and deep concern among rights groups and the United States.

"This agreement will bring a step, an important step in the road of peace in Libya," U.N. Special Envoy Bernardino Leon told the ceremony attended by Arab and Western diplomats.

"Putting bread on the table, putting a roof over the heads of one's children, giving them health and an education, these are essential for human dignity," the pope said.

District Attorney Marian Ryan said a guilty verdict in Massachusetts could keep Tsarnaev in prison if he successfully appeals his federal convictions.

"Now that everything is on the table, the moment has come to decide," Laurent Fabius said in a statement sent to Reuters.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage has given a renewed push to the movement in Taiwan, where a marriage bill has been held up in parliament.

Germany suggested Greece take a "timeout" from the eurozone of at least five years and restructure its debt, while remaining a member of the European Union.

Trump, a billionaire real estate developer, had the support of 15.8 percent of respondents in the online poll of self-identified Republicans compared to 16.1 percent for Bush.

Prime Minister David Cameron wants Britain to be able to opt out of some EU employment legislation as part of his renegotiation with Brussels.

Hafez Saeed, leader of Islamic State in the "so-called Khorasan state," was killed, according to Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS).

In a search for more potential leaks of government-protected data, the nation's chief information officer set about a 30-day sprint.

A spokesman for German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble declined comment on a newspaper report that he found Tsipras's proposals inadequate and would oppose further talks.

The Federal Trade Commission is looking into claims Apple's treatment of rival streaming music apps is illegal under antitrust law.

Among the biggest sticking points at the moment is Iran's insistence that a United Nations Security Council arms embargo and ban on its ballistic missile program.

The Chinese Muslim minority group have been the focus of attention from China's security services, amid accusations of terrorism.