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Protesters have refused to stop demonstrating until other demands including direct elections for the city's leaders and police accountability are met.

The US and China have been locked in a bruising trade war for more than a year, with the world's two biggest economies slapping tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars in bilateral trade.

US President Donald Trump had pressed Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate a political rival, former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden, according to the summary of their telephone call that was released by the US administration.

PM Netanyahu made the comments to journalists after accepting President Reuven Rivlin's mandate to try to form a government following last week's deadlocked elections.

Assistant Secretary of State John Sullivan said the United Nations and its member states had 'a singular responsibility to speak up when survivor after survivor recounts the horrors of state repression.'

Talking to mediapersons, APHP General Secretary Ravi Dawani said it had launched the drive to collect data of Hindu families in Pakistan and for the purpose it has written to all Panchayats and notables.

The move comes weeks after the government complained that lending rates had not kept pace with sharply lower deposit rates that fell by over 250 basis points since the April attacks, when hundreds were killed in blast.

Anindia Afiyantari, 33, Retno Hernayani, 36, and 31-year-old Turmini who worked as maids for between six and 13 years in Singapore, became supporters of IS after viewing online material last year, authorities said.

The key meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and his main opponent Benny Gantz came as the deadlocked vote results threatened the incumbent PM's long tenure in office, though he has shown no sign of being willing to give up his post.

The ex-president has been incarcerated at the federal police headquarters in the southern city of Curitiba since April 2018, after he was sentenced to eight years and 10 months in jail for accepting a bribe.

Hundreds of angry residents of Dagoretti, a poor suburb where many live in makeshift homes, swarmed around the site where rescuers picked through the rubble.

Six years ago, she received a face transplant at Brigham and Woman's Hospital in Boston, where she's being evaluated for a possible second transplant.

Hundreds of homes and other buildings in the region were damaged by Imelda, dumping more than 40 inches (102 centimeters) of rain in some spots and being blamed for at least five deaths.

The five-member panel will investigate allegations of disregarding of prior intelligence inputs on the Easter attacks and related errors which stopped authorities from taking preventive action.

The latest round of protests on Saturday was organised by supporters of Mukhtar Ablyazov, a fugitive banker living in France who has been the fiercest critic of Kazakhstan’s first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Justin Trudeau, 47, was in eastern Canada when pictures first emerged on Wednesday showing him in brown makeup at a 2001 'Arabian Nights' party when he was a 29-year-old teacher.