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The US President Donald Trump defended a move that drew widespread bipartisan criticism that he has endangered stability in the Middle East and risked the lives of Syrian Kurdish allies who helped the US bring down the Islamic State group in Syria.

Landing restrictions at Tokyo's Narita and Haneda airports were lifted but more than 800 flights were cancelled for the day, as were some Shinkansen bullet train services to the worst-hit areas.

More than 7.3 million people were placed under non-compulsory evacuation orders as officials reported serious flooding and several landslides that left at least three people missing.

The packed bus was ferrying passengers — who had been celebrating the Hindu festival of Dashain — from Sindhupal chowk to neighbouring Kathmandu.

The US military confirmed an explosion around 9 pm within a few hundred meters of its post near the town of Kobani, in an area 'known by the Turks to have US forces present.'

During McAleenan's brief tenure, the Trump administration stepped up efforts to discourage an exodus of migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador by asking Mexico to impede their transit.

The threat of widespread outages loomed in Southern California after the winds moved to the Los Angeles area, where a wildfire fueled by strong Santa Ana winds prompted officials to order the evacuation of 100,000 people.

Tokyo police declined confirmed on Friday that 26-year-old Hibiki Sato was arrested Sept 17 on suspicion of indecent behavior in connection with stalking and causing injuries to the 20-year-old woman.

If this weekend doesn't again draw out the number of demonstrators seen as recently as Sunday, it could be a signal that protesters are growing tired, divided and becoming less of a challenge to the government of the semi-autonomous Chinese territory and...

Google said its decision to yank 'The Revolution of Our Times' game from its Play Store did not result from any takedown requests by police or any other party outside the California-based company.

The subpoena from the House Intelligence Committee asks Energy Secretary Rick Perry to turn over documents related to his dealings with Ukraine by October 18.

Taking to Twitter, US President Donald Trump said, he will meet with the Chinmese vice premier tomorrow at the White House.

Gross domestic product — the combined value of all goods and services produced in the economy — slid 0.1 per cent in August from July, the Office for National Statistics said in a statement.

Public and private hospitals have been receiving a growing number of high-grade fever cases. Most of the cases being reported at these hospitals are being tested positive for dengue fever.

In 2014 and 2015, the militants beheaded seven American, British and Japanese journalists and aid workers and a group of Syrian soldiers, boasting of the butchery in videos released to the world.

British police say the 42-year-old woman is a suspect in an August 27 collision between a car and a motorcycle near RAF Croughton, a British military base in England used by the US Air Force.