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Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that the approximately 1,000 US troops in Syria are not leaving the country entirely but are trying to avoid becoming embroiled in the conflict.

Hunter Biden's business dealings in China and Ukraine have become an issue in the 2020 presidential race with Donald Trump and his allies pressing corruption allegations against him and his father.

The explosion on Sunday morning gutted a restaurant and damaged neighboring shops in China's coastal Jiangsu province's Wuxi city.

On Sunday, the Chinese president met Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and held delegation-level talks. After the talks, the two sides signed 18 MoUs and two letters of exchange in different sectors.

Animated show 'South Park' has been targeted by China for its recent episode, 'Band in China', in which it made fun of the country's censorship and had a major character deliver an epithet as a response.

As Trudeau left the stage to greet supporters he was surrounded by security officers, some with large backpacks on, footage showed.

India imposed retaliatory tariffs on 28 US products, including walnuts, almonds and apples from June 5, after the Trump administration revoked preferential trade privileges.

Newman had said he wished 'with all my heart' to be buried alongside lifelong friend and fellow convert Ambrose St. John with whom lived for 32 years, though it is not clear whether their relationship was a sexually active one.

President Xi is also scheduled to meet the main Opposition Nepali Congress leader, Sher Bahadur Deuba before joining the banquet being hosted by the Nepal President at Hotel Soaltee.

In the context of the Turkish military offensive in northeastern Syria, the government will not issue any new permits for any military equipment that could be used in Syria by Turkey, German Defence minister said.

Residents of nearby Menia Village managed to save ten of the whales, all roughly three to four metres long, in a rescue attempt on Friday.

During the meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli, are expected to ink a number of agreements and MoUs, including an extradition treaty.

There were gatherings of several hundred people in other locations, too. A rally in a shopping mall pulled together about 300 people who sang and put up protest posters.

Yovanovitch told lawmakers investigating Trump's dealings with Ukraine that there was a 'concerted campaign' against her based on 'unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives'.

Turkey stepped up its air and artillery strikes on Kurdish militia in northeast Syria on Friday, escalating an offensive that has drawn warnings of humanitarian catastrophe and turned Republican lawmakers against US President Donald Trump.

Abiy's abrupt announcement last year, just weeks after taking office, that his country would fully embrace a peace deal revived hopes for an end to one of Africa's longest wars.