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The so-called backstop is a mechanism that would keep the UK in EU customs arrangements to prevent a hard border between the British province of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, an EU member state.

At the Notre Dame cathedral, activity resumed Monday under strict new lead-protection measures for the stonemasons, cleanup workers and scientists working on the monument, according to the Culture Ministry.

US President Donald Trump announced last year that the USD 1.3 billion aid to Pakistan would remain suspended till the country did not act against militant safe heavens inside its territory.

James Reardon, 20, was being held on $250,000 bond on Sunday on charges of aggravated menacing and online harassment, according to records from the Mahoning County Sheriff's Office.

Gautier called for help on August 9, saying he had fallen down a cliff and broken both legs, but was unable to give his location other than 'in the middle of nowhere, on the coast'.

Gibraltar authorities rejected an eleventh-hour attempt by the United States' to reseize the oil tanker, arguing that EU regulations are less strict than US sanctions on Iran.

The protest movement, however, has been increasingly marked by clashes with police as demonstrators vent their frustrations over what they perceive to be the government's blatant refusal to respond to their demands.

The Employers' Federation of Pakistan feared that life-saving drugs, which are imported from India as raw material or in finished form, may vanish from the market and requested to relax the rules until some alternative source for the import is arranged.

The warrant issued by US says Iranian oil supertanker Grace 1 is subject to forfeiture based on violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, bank fraud, money laundering, and terrorism forfeiture statutes.

Police said the alarm was first sounded in Manhattan around 7:00 am when a passenger saw a cooker abandoned at the Fulton Street subway station near the World Trade Center -- a neighborhood rebuilt after the September 11 attacks in 2001.

After making three flights that lasted for 19 minutes, 40 seconds in total, he was nonetheless exposed to such a high dose of radiation that some dosimeters went haywire when he tried to measure his exposure.

International Organization for Migration has confirmed 89 deaths of Venezuelans this year, second only to more than 100 who were of unknown nationalities.

Robert's climb comes as more mass demonstrations are expected through the weekend. China has likened the protests to terrorism and warned it could use force to quell them.

The Grace 1 supertanker, carrying 2.1 million barrels of Iranian oil, was seized on July 4 by Gibraltar police and British special forces off the British territory, provoking a diplomatic crisis between Tehran and London.

The Ural Airlines' Airbus 321, with 233 people on board, struck a flock of gulls after take-off, disrupting its engines and forcing the pilots to land in the field about one km from Zhukovsky International Airport.

Pakistan said the Indian side should permit United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) to play its mandated role as per the UN Security Council resolutions.