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Cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi's Tehreek-e-Labbaik (TLP) party blocked off roads in Pakistan's biggest protest for three days last week and threatened the Supreme Court judges who acquitted Asia Bibi.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said there would be no economic relief for North Korea until the US has 'achieved its ultimate objective'.

Nurul Islam, 15, was grazing cows when 17 rounds were fired from Myanmar's Rymongkhali security post, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) spokesman Major Iqbal Ahmed said.

According to UNICEF, 1.8 million Yemeni children under the age of five suffer from acute malnutrition, and the lives of 400,000 severely affected children are under threat.

Following the report, some NGOs and scientists propose that the WHO's Inter Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) must upgrade the present Group 2B (possible human carcinogen) classification of RF radiation to Group1 (human carcinogen).

Thousands of loyalists from across the country are camped out at the Temple Trees residence in Colombo, a colonial-era bungalow where Ranil Wickremesinghe has been holed up since his shock dismissal more than a week ago.

Twitter removed more than 10,000 accounts, according to three sources familiar with the Democrats' effort. The number is modest, considering that Twitter has previously deleted millions of accounts.

Ranil Wickremesinghe, who has been holed up at the prime minister's official residence for more than a week , said "desperate people" could cause chaos on the Indian Ocean island.

"Police got a call around 1:30 pm (1730 GMT) regarding an assault in progress. When we got there, we discovered that it looked like two individuals were fighting over a parking spot," a spokeswoman said.

As part of the deal, Asia Bibi, a mother of five who has been on death row since 2010, would be barred from leaving the country, according to a document of the agreement shared by the ultra-Islamist Tehreek-e-Labaik (TLP) group.

Palitha Range Bandara said a caller from the Rajapaksa camp urged him to defect before the parliament session, a charge denied by Rajapaksa's party.

Asia Bibi, a 47-year-old mother of four, was convicted in 2010 after being accused of insulting Islam in a row with her neighbours. She always maintained her innocence, but has spent most of the past eight years in solitary confinement.

The employee was working on the ramp on Saturday and decided to take a nap inside the plane in Kansas.

If named, she would take over from outgoing ambassador Nikki Haley who announced her resignation last month without offering details on why.

Trump's remarks came following widespread outrage over an interview in which he announced plans to terminate the right to citizenship for babies born on the US soil to non-citizens.

Trump said that we are the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the US for 85 years with all of those benefits. It's ridiculous, he said.