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The Malaysian ministers said Naik's comments may have been aimed at driving a wedge between Muslims and non-Muslims in Malaysia, an allegation that Naik denied.

"I invite you to visit Taiwan and experience the warmth and hospitality of the people here," President Tsai Ing-wen said in an English video.

In the video circulating online, Lodhi was seen evading questions based by the man during an interaction with the media.

The vast majority of people at the classes were Hispanic; El Paso is a predominantly Latino city. Police say the accused gunman deliberately attacked Hispanics in the Walmart.

The clip, filmed on Saturday and later circulated online by Russian celebrities with millions of followers, shows the moment two helmeted riot policemen drag the woman, Daria Sosnovskaya, to a waiting police bus.

The five scientists were buried in the closed city of Sarov on Monday. They died last Thursday in what state nuclear agency Rosatom has said was an accident during a rocket test on a sea platform off northern Russia.

Nasendoscopy -- a fibre optic camera on the end of a tube inserted through a nostril -- revealed a large, semicircular object covering his vocal cords.

Cathay Pacific has come under fire from authorities and residents in mainland China who accuse it of allowing staff to participate in illegal activities.

The US has been negotiating with its longtime foe over the past year for a pact that would see the Pentagon begin to withdraw its 14,000 troops from Afghanistan.

The focus on crime and other domestic issues before Britain is due to leave the European Union on Oct. 31 has fuelled speculation that Johnson is planning to call an election.

Epstein's death comes a day after a tranche of sealed legal documents were released for the first time providing new details about what prosecutors allege was his sex-trafficking operation.

Donald Trump's comments fanned fears on Wall Street that the world's two largest economies were digging in for a longer and costlier trade war, causing major stock indexes to extend losses to more than 1 percent.

The decline in UK's economy, the first since the fourth quarter of 2012, was unexpected. Most economists thought that the economy would be flat.

The quake struck at 5:28 am (2128 GMT Wednesday) at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles), off Yilan county on the northeastern coast. Taiwan's central weather bureau put the magnitude at 6.0.

Earlier, while talking to a private news channel, Chaudhry said Islamabad can approach the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against India for its decision to scrap the special status for Jammu and Kashmir.

Peter Chadwick was found to be in possession of forged identity documents and lived in a large apartment near Mexico City.