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As many as 117 out of 225 lawmakers in Parliament voted to pass a confidence motion in Ranil Wickremesinghe's leadership.

The US Secretary of State headed to New York for a Security Council meeting on Iran, which recently confirmed a medium-range ballistic test, arguing it is legal and necessary for its defence.

The man, who was on a watchlist for suspected religious extremists, had already been sentenced 27 times in France, Germany and Switzerland for crimes including violence and robbery.

A study performed by psychologist Robert Epstein has revealed that internet search rankings have a significant impact on consumer choices mainly because users trust and choose higher ranked results more than lower ranked results.

Tweeting ahead of a White House meeting with opposition Democratic party leaders, Trump claimed that the wall was needed to prevent "large scale crime and disease" brought by illegal immigrants.

Trump had on Saturday posted two tweets referring to the "yellow vest" anti-government protests that have swept France since mid-November and sparked rioting in Paris.

The police reportedly found that some social media accounts on Tencent's Wechat and Sina-owned Weibo fabricated accusations against companies and individuals citing the Ministry of Public Security.

Tyerell Joe Przybycien, 19, apologised to the girl's family, saying what he did 'doesn't deserve pity'.

The decision to scrap the meeting held every year since 2014 also comes as the United States is seeking a second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Some 89,000 policemen will be on duty nationwide to forestall a repeat of last Saturday's destructive mayhem in exclusive central districts of Paris.

Representatives for the White House did not be immediately respond to a request for comment on the report. While, the sources said that the relationship between President Trump and Kelly was worse than ever that the two were not in talking terms.

Based on interviews with people who escaped and returned to Myanmar, the study found that the majority of those trafficked were also forced to carry a child for their husband.

The girl born in the Brazilian case was delivered via caesarean section at 35 weeks and three days, and weighed 2,550 grams (nearly 6 lbs), the case study said.

He asked the Democratic Party, who will have control over the House of Representatives in the Congress, beginning January, to fund his plan to build the wall along the US-Mexico border.

For months he appears to have convinced Australian police that his 26-year-old university colleague Mohamed Kamer Nizamdeen was embroiled in a plot to kill then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.

The Guardian cited Khalida Popal, a former head of women's soccer in the Afghanistan Football Federation who was forced to flee the country in 2016 and seek asylum in Denmark, as saying that her own investigation uncovered physical and sexual abuse, death...