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The phone call between the two leaders came nearly a month after the two clashed over tweets.

Former Uber manager Richard Jacobs, who was fired earlier this year, made the explosive claims in a 37-page letter that sought a big payoff for being forced out of the company.

"It has not yet shown to be a capable threat against us right now ... we're still doing the forensics analysis," Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon.

The Foreign Office's denial came days after Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal said that China had halted the release of funds for three CPEC projects till the revision of its "financial mechanism" by Beijing.

The court had been hearing a judicial review filed by Islamic activist group the Family Love Alliance that sought to alter the criminal code.

Making his first ever visit to EU headquarters in Brussels, Netanyahu said President Donald Trump's move to recognise made peace in the Middle East possible "because recognising reality is the substance of peace, the foundation of peace."

United Nations mediator Staffan de Mistura convened an eighth round of separate talks with Syrian government and unified opposition delegations on November 28, focusing on constitutional reform as well as elections.

The United States and South Korea conducted large-scale military drills last week, which the North said made the outbreak of war "an established fact".

Franks, an eight-term lawmaker from Arizona, had announced a day earlier that he would be stepping down from the House of Representatives on January 31.

Rita Makarau, seen as an ally of 93-year-old former president Robert Mugabe, gave no reason for her resignation, the official, who declined to be named, said.

The Islamist group Hamas urged Palestinians on Thursday to abandon peace efforts and launch a new uprising against Israel in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as its capital.

"For us, nothing is pre-determined, nothing is automatic," Schulz said this week, while also noting that another option would be to allow Merkel to run a minority government, an idea she has so far opposed as too unstable.

The funeral of Saleh was expected later on Tuesday. He was killed by his erstwhile Houthi allies on Monday, two days after announcing he was switching sides in the war to oppose them.

US President Donald Trump on Monday issued his most explicit endorsement to date of embattled Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has been accused of sexual assault by multiple women including one who was 14-years-old at the time.

Fighters from Yemen's armed Houthi movement blew up house the house of ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the centre of the capital Sanaa on Monday, residents reported, as his whereabouts remain unknown.

"He said it," Billy Bush wrote in a New York Times opinion piece about Trump's "grab them by the pussy" comment made on a hot mic in an "Access Hollywood" bus in 2005.