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The US last week formally notified the United Nations of its withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Climate accord, a landmark global agreement which brought together 188 nations, including India, to combat global warming.

About 1,010 kilos of cocaine have been recovered so far, a sharp jump from just two days ago, when 763 kilos were reported.

A statement from the bank said although visits to the partner schools 'did not substantiate the allegations,' they were too widely dispersed to be properly monitored for adherence to bank standards.

The gunman opened fire on the opposing side in the dispute in Chanthaburi provincial court before a guard shot back and fatally wounded him.

She said her two years as US ambassador to the UN took her to places where values of human rights and freedom of expression, religion and press does not exist, even as an ideal.

The special adviser for Ukraine at the State Department, Catherine Croft, says she fielded inquiries from Ukraine about the holdup.

Paris, Berlin, London and Brussels said that Iran's action was 'inconsistent' with the 2015 JCPoA, under which Tehran had agreed to curb some of its nuclear activities -- notably uranium enrichment -- in return for a lifting of economic sanctions.

Dr Asiya Islam's application for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) was refused by the UK Home Office last week on the grounds that she had been out of Britain for longer than the stipulated period for such an application.

The figure is equivalent to over 80% of US rival Amazon.com Inc's online store sales in the latest quarter and matches takings across Alibaba's e-commerce platforms on Singles' Day last year.

The state attorney's office said Saturday they were tipped off to the desert burial pits by a group of volunteers called Searching Mothers that tries to find missing people.

Hong Kong is in the sixth month of protests that began over a proposed China extradition law and have expanded to include demands for greater democracy and other grievances.

Local media in Saint Petersburg reported that university professor Oleg Sokolov was drunk and fell into the river as he tried to dispose of body parts of the former student he murdered.

The cyclone Bulbul was packing winds of up to 120 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 130 kph (80 mph), but was forecast to weaken after crossing the coast.

On November 9, 1989, East German border guards, overwhelmed by large crowds, threw open the gates to West Berlin, allowing free passage for the first time since the Wall was built.

The unmanned aircraft was downed over Iranian territory with a domestically manufactured Mersad surface-to-air missile.

French President Emmanuel Macron's public criticism of NATO was rejected by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, setting the scene for a possible showdown in London next month when US President Donald Trump joins hi...