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The Palestinian leadership cut off contact with the Trump administration after the US president recognised the disputed city of Jerusalem as Israel's capital in December.

The bus was carrying around 40 passengers from neighbouring Helmand province to Kandahar and overturned after the collision.

The helicopter, which took off for Kathmandu airlifting a patient along with other passengers from Samagaun in Gorkha, lost radio contact with Kathmandu tower after flying some 32km at around 8.10am.

Neil Basu, an Indian-origin top counter-terrorism officer said a Nina Ricci 'Premier Jour' perfume bottle with a specially made poison applicator was recovered by police.

There were no early reports of deaths but a man suffered cardiac arrest after falling down stairs.

Rivlin went on to say that Duterte's visit to Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial on Monday must have illustrated to him the sensitivity surrounding any reference to Adolf Hitler.

According to the book, Trump told Mattis that he wanted to have Assad assassinated after the Syrian president launched a chemical attack on civilians in April 2017.

"Just as he endured great hardships for the religion of Allah during his youth and health, he also endured long illness during his later years," SITE quoted the Afghan Taliban statement as saying.

Even before the embers had begun to cool Monday, grief over the huge cultural loss gave way to anger at funding cuts many say are threatening Brazil's multi-cultural heritage.

The shooting happened on a hot holiday weekend in the city that is about 60 miles (96 km) east of Los Angeles.

Sri Lanka has already paid a heavy price for being highly indebted to China. Last year, the island nation had to grant a 99-year lease on a strategic port to Beijing over its inability to repay loans for the $1.4-billion project.

Trump attended the ASEAN summit in the Philippines and the APEC summit in Vietnam last year. This year, Mike Pence will travel to Singapore to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit and the East Asia Summit.

The intense flood waters devastated the rural flatland region where more than 60,000 people reside primarily in easily damaged bamboo and wooden houses.

According to the, Assistant Secretary of Defence for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, the US' vision of a free and open Indo Pacific, which is supported by India, is not so much about countering any particular country

Fire authorities sent a team to the Swar irrigation dam after the breach unleashed water into the nearby town of Swar and several other settlements.

At a meeting with those leaders at the White House on Monday, Donald Trump said everything was at stake for his conservative agenda if his party loses in November, according to an audiotape of the meeting obtained by the Times.