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US President Donald Trump said Britain and the United States will now be free to strike a 'massive' new trade deal after Brexit.

While images of black-clad protesters hurling petrol bombs and riot police shooting tear gas have become ubiquitous, the visually impaired hear, rather than see, the unrest that has plunged the city into crisis.

The small African state of The Gambia has taken Myanmar to the tribunal in The Hague accusing it of genocide and seeking emergency measures to prevent further violence against the Rohingya.

Khaleda Zia, a three-time former prime minister, is lodged in a prison in Dhaka since February 2018, serving a total of 17 years jail term in two graft cases. Her health has massively deteriorated over the months.

Earlier this week, a Washington Post report disclosed thousands of pages of documents revealing that government officials for years misled the public about failures in the Afghanistan war.

The freezing order came on 23 properties of Shahbaz, his two sons - Hamza and Suleman - and two wives - Nusrat and Tehmina in connection with a money-laundering investigation.

The 16-year-old Greta Thunberg has found herself in the role of spokesperson for a generation haunted by climate emergency since her solo strike against global warming outside Sweden's parliament last year.

The CPJ found that at least 250 journalists have been jailed in relation to their work, with the largest number held in China.

The shooting took place at two scenes, starting at a cemetery, where the officer was gunned down, and continuing at a kosher supermarket, where five more bodies were found.

The Orange Line Metro train, which would complete 27 kms of distance in 45 minutes, will pass through the congested areas of Lahore where more than 250,000 passengers travel on a daily basis.

Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said that Hong Kong police have already responded with 'disproportionate force' to the protests.

Pyongyang has set Washington an end-of-year time limit to offer it new concessions in deadlocked nuclear negotiations, and has said it will adopt an unspecified "new way" if nothing acceptable is forthcoming.

In his message on the 35th SAARC Charter Day, the prime minister said December 8 marks the day when leaders with vision and foresight adopted the SAARC Charter and pledged to work together for the progress and prosperity of South Asia.

Trump said Chinese-American Xiyue Wang was returning to the United States. An Iranian official said that Iranian Massoud Soleimani had been freed from detention in the United States.

The New South Wales Rural Fire Service said that "a number of fires in the Hawkesbury, Hunter and Central Coast areas have now joined". The tweet included a map showing 10 separate fires connecting about 50 km north of metropolitan Sydney.

Maintaining a composed, calm demeanor throughout, Elon Musk stood by the thrust of his defense - that his tweets were off-handed, figurative retorts to a put-down from someone he did not know at the time. And he repeatedly expressed regret for them.