Harnaaz Sandhu took the top prize in the Red Sea resort with Paraguay's Nadia Ferreira first runner-up and Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane taking the second runner-up spot.

The remark came in response to threats by the US president on Saturday that Moscow would pay a “terrible price” should it decide to attack Ukraine.

The ECP should scrutinize the accounts of political parties into phases as it could scrutinize the accounts of three major political parties in first phase and make them public.

Cypriot Energy Minister Natasa Pilides, Varnavas Theodosiou, CEO of ExxonMobil Cyprus, and Ali al-Mana, director of Qatar Energy’s International Upstream and Exploration, signed an oil and gas exploration contract in Nicosia.

The 56-year-old film director still savors the memory of the minutes-long standing ovation he received after the documentary's press screening at Cannes. He now lives in fear of the hardline Islamists who returned to power in mid-August.

Erdogan said though when it first emerged, social media was hailed as a symbol of freedom, now it has “turned into one of the main sources of threats to today's democracy.” Lies, manufactured news, and disinformation spread rapidly through the use of social media.

The 22-year-old weightlifter from Gujranwala secured a Bronze medal for Pakistan in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He lifted 143 kg in the first attempt at the snatch event but his following attempts to lift 146kg and 147kg were unsuccessful.

World powers and Iran were locked in talks on reviving their nuclear deal on Friday, with a European source saying they were working from texts discussed five months ago and Iranian officials said they were sticking to a tough stance from last week.

The United States on Friday imposed extensive human rights-related sanctions on dozens of people and entities tied to China, Myanmar, North Korea and Bangladesh, and added Chinese artificial intelligence company SenseTime Group to an investment blacklist.

The UK sanctioned a Pakistani national, Furqan Bangalzai, former commander of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, that is accused of orchestrating the bombing of the Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine. Sanctions have also been placed on Myanmar's military.

Finland will replace its fleet of aging fighter jets with an order of 64 F-35A multi-role fighters from US contractor Lockheed Martin in a deal worth 8.4 billion euros ($9.5 billion), the government said on Friday.

Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib on Friday said that the prices of edible items were declining in third consecutive week that ended on December 9 as compared to same period last year.