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Supermarket giant Tesco said at the weekend it had stopped production at a factory in China after one of its charity cards was found to contain a cry for help from a prisoner who made it.

Maryam, the 46-year-old daughter of Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, was placed on the no-fly list in August 2018 in an alleged corruption case.

Six people have now died in bushfires which have destroyed more than 3.7 million hectares (9.1 million acres) across five states.

Earlier on Sunday, more than 1,000 people rallied calmly in support of China's ethnic Uighurs, who have been detained en masse in camps in China's northwestern Xinjiang region.

ToTok, introduced only months ago, was downloaded millions of times from the Apple and Google app stores by users throughout the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.

Police were searching a home of a 44-year old man suspected of distributing child pornography, when they stumbled on the boy.

The CST-100 Starliner astronaut capsule was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, but an automated timer error, which Boeing could not immediately explain, prevented the spacecraft from attaining the orbit.

The bizarre episode began under the glaring hot spotlight during the Los Angeles debate, as Joe Biden -- who is not widely known as a stutterer -- told the audience how people with varying problems approach him for condolence or advice.

Senator Bernie Sanders, second in the standings, blasted Donald Trump as 'running the most corrupt administration in the modern history of this country'.

The FSB security service said in a statement to Russian news agencies about 30 minutes later that the gunman has been 'neutralised'.

A video that circulated this week showed students at Shanghai's Fudan University gathering to sing the school song -- which extols "academic independence and freedom of thought" -- in an apparent protest against the move.

Donald Trump said the Democratic Party, which controls the House of Representatives where the votes took place, was 'trying to nullify the ballots of tens of millions of patriotic Americans'.

Marry Chiwenga is also accused of laundering about USD 1 million to neighbouring South Africa by pretending to pay for goods that were never brought into Zimbabwe.

There have been reports that Chinese authorities are holding up hundreds of thousands of Muslims in high-security detention camps in Xinjiang without trial as part of counter-terror measures.

Johnson toured a leftist bastion once represented by former Labour leader Tony Blair in a bid to show his intent to unite the country after years of divisions over Brexit.

Thierry Breton made the announcement on French RTL radio, saying the bloc wanted 'balanced' trade relations with the UK.