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Turkey on Wednesday launched an offensive in northern Syria targeting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, a key US ally in the five-year battle to crush the Islamic State group.

Gordon Sondland, who was part of text message chains discussing the president's effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate a political rival, was scheduled to testify this week but the administration blocked him.

Salamanca is in the state of Guanajuato, which has been a largely peaceful state with farming, industry and the colonial tourist magnets of its eponymous capital and San Miguel de Allende.

On a visit to the SpaceX headquarters, Bridenstine praised Elon Musk's company for its "fail fast, then fix" approach to spacecraft design after a personal tour and briefing at the sprawling manufacturing plant.

Turkey says its operation is aimed at pushing back Syrian Kurdish forces, which it considers 'terrorists', and establishing a 'safe zone' to repatriate Syrian refugees.

The histopathological examination report, compiled by the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences in Jamshoro on September 26, was handed over to Larkana police on Wednesday where it indicated that Nimrita Kumari died due to asphyxiation.

Outsized penalties awarded by some juries highlight risks in a longstanding strategy by drugmakers such as J&J of taking their chances at trial rather then settle product liability lawsuits brought by patients.

The surge came mainly from Central American migrants fleeing poverty and violence, crossing in large groups and family units into the US from Mexico and turning themselves in to ask for asylum.

The theory of a revenge attack, carried out after former president Jacques Chirac cancelled the payment of bribes on arms deals signed with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in 1994, has circulated for years.

One way that African countries are trying to address is by building dams, a report in Conversation states. Notably, number of large and small dams are currently under construction, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.

Notably, Tu Youyou, who was born in December 1930 has been dedicated towards finding a cure for malaria for more than five decades, reported Xinhua.

The directive, passed by a meeting of EU justice ministers in Luxembourg, enacts a measure the European Parliament overwhelmingly voted for in April.

Images posted on social media showed an effigy with long braids with a sign written in English reading 'Greta is your God'.

The flight, with 392 passengers onboard, marks the end of two-week-long Operation Matterhorn -- Britain's biggest repatriation since World War II.

General (retd) Musharraf, 76, who has been living in Dubai since March 2016, is facing the treason case for suspending the Constitution in 2007, a punishable offence for which he was indicted in 2014.

On Saturday Johnson started phoning his EU counterparts to sell his proposals for a managed withdrawal from the bloc, after the latest plans were given short shrift by Brussels.