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Taking aim at incendiary racial appeals by Trump, Biden said in an interview with a small group of reporters that a president's words can "appeal to the worst damn instincts of human nature," just as they can move markets or take a nation into war.

Hong Kong has been witnessing unprecedented protests by millions of people against the government's plan to allow extraditions to the Communist nation.

A 1997 agreement known as the Flores settlement says immigrant children must be kept in the least restrictive setting and generally shouldn't spend more than 20 days in detention.

Rejecting the offer, Onyx Lorenzoni, chief of staff to President Jair Bolsonaro, told the G1 news website that the resources offered are more relevant to reforest Europe.

Smoke choked Porto Velho city and forced the closure of the airport for nearly two hours as fires raged in the northwestern state of Rondonia, amid a growing global uproar and a diplomatic spat between France and Brazil.

Ahead of the meeting, Tusk and Johnson had sparred over who would be to blame should Britain leave the EU on October 31 without a divorce deal in place.

Tokyo and Seoul have long been at loggerheads over the sovereignty of the group of islets called Takeshima in Japanese and Dokdo in Korean, which lie about halfway between the East Asian neighbours in the Sea of Japan.

Police used tear gas after some protesters threw Molotov cocktails and bricks and others tore up 'smart' lamp posts equipped with surveillance cameras. Others had set up roadblocks with bamboo scaffolding.

Hong Kong's flagship carrier has become the biggest corporate casualty of the city's anti-government protests after China demanded the airline suspend staff involved in, or who support, the demonstrations that have roiled the city.

President Maithripala Sirisena has been extending the emergency on the 22nd of each month since the April 21 attacks. However, his office confirmed that he did not extend it for another term.

Stepping up his criticism of India after it revoked Jammu and Kashmir's special status early this month, Khan told The New York Times that he fears the threat of a military escalation between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

Around 100 firefighters battled the blaze for more than two hours and saved 10 people trapped inside the building before extinguishing the flames.

Trump said the US was fighting the terrorists in Afghanistan despite being 7,000 miles away while India and Pakistan were not doing so even after being next door.

Earlier this month, the Trump administration unveiled a rule that some experts say could cut legal immigration in half by denying visas and permanent residency to hundreds of thousands of people for being too poor.​

Cardinal George Pell, the highest ranking Catholic worldwide to be convicted of child sex offences, was sentenced to six years in jail after being found guilty on five charges of abuse.

With an average of more than 120 illegally trafficked tigers seized each year which amounts to over two each week since year 2000, conservation group Traffic warned there was little sign of respite for the species.