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Despite fierce objections from the United States and other allies, Germany has so far refused to ban Huawei from playing a role in developing the country's next-generation 5G mobile networks.

Police said they fired tear gas in Paris after protesters hurled projectiles at them, with 30 people arrested in the French capital.

The official death toll from the eruption on White Island, also known by its Māori name of Whakaari, stands at 16. Six bodies were retrieved from the island on Friday.

Authorities said the suspects opened fire on a National Guard patrol on a highway near the city of Irapuato and the officers returned fire.

In an extraordinarily angry letter stretching more than five pages, Donald Trump told Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, that 'history will judge you harshly.'

The 25-year-old leader had in 2013 fled Syria for the Netherlands, where he founded a network of refugee volunteers to help the local community.

The council will meet behind closed doors for the first time since a similar gathering in August, which was also called by Pakistan ally China, after India scrapped provisions of Article 370.

The Citizenship Act seeks to provide citizenship to non-Muslim religious minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who arrived in India till December 31, 2014 to escape religious persecution.

Marry Chiwenga is also accused of laundering about USD 1 million to neighbouring South Africa by pretending to pay for goods that were never brought into Zimbabwe.

In a later statement carried by KCNA, Chief of the General Staff Pak Jong Chon said the tests were designed to bolster North Korea's defences by developing new weapons.

An international team of searchers continued the hunt, while officials on shore said they would use DNA analysis to identify the crash victims.

Donald Trump, who calls himself the most pro-Israeli US president in history, reinforced his determined effort to win over traditionally pro-Democratic American Jewish voters ahead of next year's presidential election.

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.

US Attorney General William Barr said that it now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a US presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in his view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken.

In his message on the 35th SAARC Charter Day, Imran Khan 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.

In the Eastern province over 79,000 people have been affected by the floods and 2,507 people have been displaced, while in the Northern province 64,448 people have been affected while 8,478 people from 2,611 families have been displaced.