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The location of the protests, which change daily, are posted just an hour or two in advance, with the exact spots shared just minutes ahead of time.

The climate activist braved winter conditions in her native Stockholm to continue the weekly Friday School Strike for the Climate campaign that helped catapult her to international fame.

In his first ceremonial address to Parliament, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa called for electoral and constitutional reforms to make the country a progressive state and a stronger executive presidency to effectively combat extremism.

Investigators located the military helicopter's flight data recorder on Friday which will be analysed to help determine the cause of the crash.

Top Iranian commander of the Islamic republic's Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani, was killed in the attack.

Taking to Twitter, Moqtada Sadr ordered 'fighters, particularly those from the Mahdi Army, to be ready' following the strike, reactivating the notoriously anti-American force nearly a decade after he dissolved it.

Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said that the 445 Bangladeshi nationals had entered India legally with a valid VISA but overstayed and were intercepted by the BGB on they were returning back.

Morrison said he didn't take the attacks personally and instead saw them as 'sense of frustration and hurt and loss and anger'.

The plane crashed five minutes after take off from an airport in the state capital of El Geneina, after delivering aid to the area, which had been hit by recent deadly tribal fighting.

The security official said the bodies of those killed in the airport attack Friday were burned and difficult to identify.

The OIC is a 57-member grouping of Muslim majority nations, including Pakistan. The OIC has usually been supportive of Pakistan and often sided with Islamabad on the Kashmir issue.

Gurbaz Singh from Surrey was ascending Mount Hood, the highest peak in US' Oregon, marking his 90th mountain climb, when he lost his footing on ice and fell.

The floods inundated thousands of homes and buildings in poor and wealthy districts alike, have forced authorities to cut off electricity and water and paralyzed transport networks, National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Agus Wibowo said.

The pro-Iran demonstrators left the besieged US embassy after the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force ordered them to withdraw a day after their dramatic incursion.

Analysts said the declaration, reported by state media on Wednesday, amounted to Kim putting a missile "to Donald Trump's head" -- but warned that escalation by Pyongyang would probably backfire.

Billions around the world cheered in 2020 after a tumultuous year dominated by demonstrations calling for political upheaval and action on climate change.