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The US State Department on Tuesday termed MML an alias for terror organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which was behind the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.

The king also emphasised the need to advance the peace process in a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump made after Israeli security forces killed 16 Palestinians last week during a demonstration along the Israel-Gaza border.

Cape Town typically gets rain in the southern hemisphere winter, starting around May. Above-average-rainfall is now forecast over the next three months, according to the latest seasonal outlook from the South African Weather Service.

"We're concerned, with the financing structures for connectivity projects," Alex Wong, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs told reporters during a news conference.

Taiwan is one of China's most sensitive issues. The island is claimed by Beijing as its sacred territory and China has never renounced the use of force to bring under Chinese control what it considers to be a wayward province.

China's action, which was decided by the customs tariff commission of the State Council, followed weeks of rhetoric that has raised fears of a trade war between the world's two biggest economies.

Ethan Couch garnered international attention in 2013 as the "affluenza teen" when his lawyers argued his privileged childhood impaired his ability to tell right from wrong.

The men, along with two other British jihadis, allegedly made up the IS cell nicknamed "The Beatles" by surviving captives because of their English accents.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday it was summoning the representatives of a "raft of countries" that had taken what it called unfriendly action against Russia in solidarity with Britain because of the Skripal affair.

President Maithripala Sirisena Sirisena took away the central bank, the policy-making National Operations Room and several other institutions from the control of PM Ranil Wickremesinghe, who had held them since coming to power in January 2015.

A spokesman for the health ministry in the enclave said one farmer was killed and another injured by Israeli artillery fire near Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.

President Sisi's sole challenger was the little-known Moussa, himself a supporter of the president, who registered immediately before the close date for applications, saving the election from being a one-horse race.

Lavrov said that the US ambassador had been informed of "retaliatory measures", saying that "they include the expulsion of the equivalent number of diplomats and our decision to withdraw permission for the functioning of the US consulate general in Saint...

Some 23 million of the 60 million registered voters turned out during the three days of polling that ended on Wednesday.

Scientists described Tratayenia, a two-legged beast up to about 30 feet (9 meters) long, based on fossils unearthed in Argentina's Neuquén province, adding another impressive dinosaur to the list of those that inhabited Patagonia during the Cretaceous Per...

The couple is locked in a dispute over whether they use the English courts for their divorce.