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Wei said China wouldn't accept or be intimidated by such an approach, which he extended to 'long-arm jurisdiction', China's pejorative term for US sanctions on countries such as China, North Korea and Iran.

Trudeau, 47, the Liberal Party leader, was endorsed by former Democratic US President Barack Obama in the final stretch of the campaign and is viewed as one of the last remaining progressive leaders among the world's major democracies.

As Turkey’s negotiations to become part of the European Union hit a brick wall, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan turned his attention to the Islamic world. In these efforts, Pakistan emerged as a major strategic partner.

And many voters here feel the last four years of Justin Trudeau's Liberal government, with the stricter environmental policies it has rolled out, has hurt them.

Some 740,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar in August 2017 in the face of a military crackdown, joining 200,000 refugees already in makeshift tent settlements at Cox's Bazar.

India had made an extradition request for the couple, which had been turned down by London court. Now, Indian authorities have got permission from the UK High Court to appeal for the extradition on murder charges.

NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir made history by embarking on the first ever all-female spacewalk, conducting a service task of replacing a damaged battery outside the International Space Station.

The move could delay stock market trading of the oil giant to December or January instead of November, the person said. The company is expected to be valued at between $1.5 and $2 trillion, making it the biggest ever.

The Paris prosecutor's office said Thursday the woman is being questioned by investigators about her complaint against modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel.

The ILO says workers in Qatar would be able to freely change employers under draft laws described as being 'expected to come into force by January 2020'.

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said his department had given Pompeo and Pence a list of additional sanctions that could be imposed unless Turkey ended its assault.

The attack highlights how President Donald Trump's administration has been trying to counter what it sees as Iranian aggression without spiraling into a broader conflict.

The Residency was originally used as the summer residence of the Agent of the British Governor-General. Jinnah spent the last days of his life there as he suffered from tuberculosis. It was later declared a national monument.

Anywhere between 50 and 150 wives and children of Islamic State prisoners had escaped in the chaos after Turkish forces attacked last week, a US official said.

Hospitals in the entire province have been facing an acute shortage of the vaccine after India and China halted the supply of cheaper anti-rabies vaccine to Pakistan.

Atatiana Jefferson was killed on Saturday at about 2:30 a.m. when officer Aaron Dean fired a single shot through a window into her home as she cared for her 8-year-old nephew.