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Trump stirred up fresh outrage on social media late Monday with a tweet that sneered at an impassioned speech made by the 16-year-old at the UN climate summit in New York.

Beijing-backed Lam said it was 'quite remarkable' there had not been fatalities during three months of protests and she hoped dialogue would help resolve the political crisis gripping the Asian financial centre.

Donald Trump breezed by a major climate change summit Monday at the United Nations, choosing to focus instead on religious persecution, an issue that resonates with his evangelical supporters.

Referring to the then military dictator General Pervez Musharraf's decision to side with the US, Pakistan PM Imran Khan said his should have stayed neutral in the conflict.

It was not clear if concrete plans were in the works for another meeting meant to address a growing diplomatic impasse over the North Korea's development of nuclear-armed missiles targeting the US mainland.

Britain sends more tourists to Mexico's Caribbean coast than any other European country, and more than any country in the world except the United States and Canada. Hence the collapse of the British travel firm has left the country reeling.

The committee is to include 150 members a third picked by the regime, another by the opposition, and the remaining third by the United Nations.

The German bank admitted its role in the fraud case and accepted the fine at the district court in the Copenhagen suburb of Glostrup, the statement continued.

Under current French law, only heterosexual couples have the right to use medically assisted procreation methods such as in vitro fertilisation, commonly known as IVF.

Donald Trump treated the giant gathering in Houston as his own, declaring that Indian Americans have never had a “better friend” as president than himself.

The accident happened on Sunday in Pakistan's Chilas district. Rescue efforts were, however, facing difficulties due to lack of needed equipment and resources in the remote mountainous terrain.

Donald Trump, who as a Republican presidential candidate in 2016 promised to be India's best friend, is flying to Houston only to attend the event.

Tensions escalated between arch-foes Iran and the United States after devastating September 14 attacks on Saudi oil installations that Washington and Riyadh have blamed on Tehran.

Their experiment is the first outside the lab to release genetically altered mosquitoes in the hope of reducing their ability to spread malaria, often a deadly disease.

The country effectively banned protests under a 2013 law and a state of emergency is still in full effect.

China has hiked its military spending by seven per cent to USD 152 billion as Beijing aims at countering America's push into the disputed South China Sea.