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The call for an immediate end to the sanctions comes as US President Donald Trump sets off on a trip to Asia - including China, South Korea and Japan - looking for help to pressure North Korea to stand down from the nuclear crisis.

Nearly 680 records were made public including 553 never-before-seen files from the Central Intelligence Agency, which had objected to their release previously on national security grounds.

The work was unveiled on the eve of Thursday's centenary of the Balfour Declaration at a mock tea party for Palestinian children at the artist's Walled Off hotel that opened last march in the town of Bethlehem.

Greek media have reported that Greece and Germany informally agreed in May to slow down refugee reunification, stranding families in Greece for months after they fled Syria's civil war. Greece denies this.

Trump, who made clampdown on immigration the mainstay of his election campaign, didn't specify the "vetting programme" he was referring to, neither did he mention how his Tuesday order was going to change an-already in-place programme.

Papadopoulos was only seven years out of university and with little professional experience when he was named in March 2016 to Republican hopeful Donald Trump's foreign policy team.

"We are accused of interfering not only in US elections but also in those of other countries without one piece of evidence," Sergei Lavrov told reporters in Moscow.

The British Prime Minister wrote to the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, calling for an independent mediation service for staff wanting to raise concerns about MPs' behaviour as the current procedure for discipline "lacked teeth".

Trump and Republicans have vowed to enact tax reform this year for the first time since 1986. But the plan to deliver up to $6 trillion in tax cuts for businesses and individuals faces challenges even from rank-and-file House Republicans.

Bjarni Benediktsson, 47, was accused named last year in the "Panama Papers" worldwide tax-evasion leaks. He has also been accused of wrongdoing during Iceland's financial collapse in 2008.

The so-called 'Quad' to discuss and cooperate on security emerged briefly as an initiative a decade ago — much to the annoyance of China, which saw as an attempt by regional democracies to contain its advances.

“Spoke to President Xi of China to congratulate him on his extraordinary elevation. Also discussed NoKo & trade, two very important subjects!” Trump tweeted after the call.

During his meeting with Pakistan PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Tillerson discussed the bilateral cooperation and partnership, expanding economic ties between both countries and Pakistan’s critical role in the region.

Ukraine was the chief victim of a major cyber attack earlier this year, and the government had warned on October 13 that another strike might be coming.

A couple of kilometres from the bustling Otay Mesa border crossing in San Diego, eight towering chunks of concrete and steel stand as high as 30 feet tall against the sky, possible models for what Trump has promised will one day be a solid wall extending...

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus named Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador on Wednesday at a conference in Uruguay that both men were attending.