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The protesters also sprayed graffiti on the capital's Independence Monument, adorning the base of the stone edifice with the slogan 'damned pigs!'

Any delay of the vessel's departure could provide a window of opportunity for the US to mount further legal action and try to again stop the tanker amid growing confrontation with Tehran.

Ten weeks of protests have plunged the international finance hub into crisis, with the communist-ruled mainland taking an increasingly hardline tone, including labelling the more violent protester actions 'terrorist-like'.

Reports said that former President Zardari's counsel Sardar Latif Khosa told the court that his client had already said he be given a 90-day remand.

The South Korean military said the projectiles were fired from near the city of Tongchon of Kangwon Province into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan.

Greenland has been melting faster in the last decade and this summer, it has seen two of the biggest melts on record since 2012.

The move to bar Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota from visiting the close American ally appeared to be unprecedented, and marked a deep foray by Israel into America's bitterly polarised politics.

The US comments further strain relations with the Afghan government as a US envoy and the Taliban near a deal to end America's longest war.

The android Kannon preaches sermons at Kodaiji temple in Kyoto, and its human colleagues predict that with artificial intelligence it could one day acquire unlimited wisdom.

"I invite you to visit Taiwan and experience the warmth and hospitality of the people here," President Tsai Ing-wen said in an English video.

Qureshi's statement came two days after Russia becomes the first UN Security Council member to back India's move on Jammu and Kashmir, saying that the changes in the status are within the framework of the Indian Constitution.

AR Arun Prashanth, 25, committed sexual acts on three of his five victims who were then aged 12 to 15, and was found to have snapped more than 700 up-skirt photos of unknown women.

The clip, filmed on Saturday and later circulated online by Russian celebrities with millions of followers, shows the moment two helmeted riot policemen drag the woman, Daria Sosnovskaya, to a waiting police bus.

The routine is a sombre reminder of South Africa's perennial failure to identify many corpses. At the busiest mortuaries in Johannesburg, one in every 10 bodies is unidentified.

Khan has already called Prime Ministers of the UK and Malaysia, as well as the Turkish President, Saudi Crown Prince and King of Bahrain to apprise them about the Kashmir situation.

The disaster Friday in southeastern Mon state was the worst in recent memory and hundreds of emergency response workers were still pulling bodies out of the muddy wreckage early Sunday.