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North Korea's test-firing Tuesday of a missile, which flew over Japan and landed in the northern Pacific Ocean, has intensified fear and reignited the debate.

UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Friday that the Syrian government and the Russians are very likely between now and the end of this month or perhaps early October, latest, will liberate Syria.

Chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier rejected complaints that his team was too rigidly tied by laboriously agreed guidelines from the member states to find compromises with Britain's demands for close new relations.

UN called on the government of President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela to release arbitrarily detained demonstrators and to halt the unlawful use of military courts to try civilians.

Saudi Arabia adheres to strict interpretations of Islamic law and tribal custom, requiring women to have male guardians and obey a modest dress code. They are barred from driving.

The bomber hit the entrance to a Kabul Bank branch in the well-off area of Kabul, close to the main diplomatic quarter, ministry spokesman Najib Danish said.

The visit of Alice Wells, acting assistant Secretary of State for South and Asian Affairs, scheduled for Monday, would have been the first high-profile visit by a US official since Trump's Afghan policy speech on August 21.

Atiqullah Khan, local director of Nawa district, said Sunday the majority of the dead were soldiers who were targeted by the attacker.

The new guidelines take effect October 1. China already had laws requiring companies to verify a user's identity but it was applied in a fragmented and incomplete way.

The office of the country's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, said on Friday that military and border police responded to the attacks by launching "clearance operations."

President Donald Trump said on Twitter on July 26 that the US government "will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity" in the military, a reversal of Pentagon policy.

French President Emmanuel Macron's plans to create an official status and job for his wife Brigitte Macron as first lady have been shelved in the face of a hostile online petition, but Brigitte said she planned to adopt the role informally anyway.

Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai said she had been accepted at Oxford to study Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.

Rex Tillerson made the comments at the State Department while introducing the agency's annual report on religious freedom, required by a 1998 act of Congress. The report is the first to be released during the Trump administration and covers 2016.

The Qatar-based operations centre is undergoing a series of upgrades to its top-secret computer systems to transform how war planners here do business.

The engines could have been bought from corrupt workers in Russia or Ukraine and smuggled to North Korea by criminal networks at some point between the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and Ukraine's current crisis.