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Due to two months of heavy rain in East Africa, bridges have been swept away and roads turned into rivers of mud affecting nearly a million people in Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Uganda.

According to authorities, Walshe had the real paintings, which he had stolen from a former classmate at Carnegie Mellon University who is now living in South Korea.

Iraqi agents used an app on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's top aide Ismail al-Eithawi's mobile phone to lure four commanders from the Islamic State into a trap, a security advisor to the Iraqi government said on Thursday.

Yemen's Iran-allied armed Houthi movement said it had launched the missiles at economic targets in the Saudi capital. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

Sun Zhengcai, a former Politburo member during the first five-year tenure of Xi, is the latest senior cadre to fall in the President's sweeping anti-corruption drive.

Mike Braun, who owns a distribution and freight company, says he would not have launched his Republican effort for the U.S. Senate if Trump had not blazed the trail two years ago.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said "the parliamentary presence" created by Hezbollah and its allies would guarantee the protection of the "resistance".

Trump said at the weekend that the two sides had settled on a date and location for the summit — the first between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader — without providing details.

The former first lady, 54, was greeted like a rock star at a conference called the United State of Women Summit, with an audience of some 5,000 people in Los Angeles, almost all women.

Opposition leader Navalny was held along with nearly 1,600 of his supporters on Saturday during nationwide rallies against Putin as police and paramilitary activists used force to break up demonstrations in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

Ahead of US President Donald Trump's much-awaited summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, South Korean President Moon Jae-in would brief Trump on his recent summit meeting with Kim.

The spacecraft was scheduled to blast off atop an Atlas V rocket at 4:05 am Pacific time (1105 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

In one case, two pilots on a C-130 cargo plane suffered minor eye injuries as they came in to land at the base in the Horn of Africa nation, Pentagon spokeswoman Major Sheryll Klinkel said.

During his two-day visit to the North, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said Beijing was in favour of peace efforts between Seoul and Pyongyang, who have remained technically at war since the 1950s.

The Senate voted 29-17 to pass the House of Representatives-approved bill, according to the legislature's online voting tallies. The bill now goes to Republican Governor Kim Reynolds, an abortion opponent, who has not said publicly whether she will sign i...

West was invited by TMZ to talk about his recent tweets, free thought and Trump when he made the controversial comments, which have received massive backlash.