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Beijing-backed Lam said it was 'quite remarkable' there had not been fatalities during three months of protests and she hoped dialogue would help resolve the political crisis gripping the Asian financial centre.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck late Monday 49 miles (79 kilometers) off the island's northwest coast at a shallow depth of 6 miles (10 kilometers).

The document signed by PM Dmitry Medvedev says that Russia is formally accepting the 2015 Paris agreement and will now 'allocate financial resources... to developing countries for prevention of and adaptation to climate change.'

Nissan will pay a USD 15 million fine. The SEC also charged former board member Greg Kelly aiding in the fraud.

Britain's highest court will rule on the legality of Johnson's advice to Queen Elizabeth II to prorogue parliament for five weeks until October 14— just a fortnight before Brexit day on October 31.

Many Democrats suggested that evidence indicating that US President Donald Trump pressed the Ukrainian government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden were changing their calculations about whether to seek his removal from office.

The protestors in Houston were carrying life-size cardboard cutouts of Narendra Modi.

Two arriving flights had to be diverted, it said, while media reports said the planes had landed at a smaller airport in the neighbouring emirate of Sharjah.

Some protesters put a Chinese flag on the floor and took turns running over it, before defacing it and putting it in a dumpster outside, which they then pushed into a nearby river.

The country effectively banned protests under a 2013 law and a state of emergency is still in full effect.

An International Monitory Fund (IMF) mission led by its Pakistan, Middle East and Central Asia Mission Chief Ernesto Ramirez Rigo concluded a five-day visit to Pakistan and reviewed its progress.

Benazir Bhutto Hospital and District Headquarters Hospital have tested another 355 patients positive in last 48 hours that amounts to over 177 patients of the infection reported per day.

The USFDA along with Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has this year approved the first vaccine for the prevention of dengue disease caused by virus serotypes.

The Houthis, who have threatened to widen attacks on Saudi Arabia, have in the past targeted vessels off Yemen, which lies on one side of the Bab al-Mandeb strait at the southern mouth of the Red Sea, one of the world's most vital oil tanker routes.

Earlier this month, the German city of Dortmund announced acclaimed novelist Kamila Shamsie as this year's winner of the Nelly Sachs Prize, named after a Jewish poet, in honour of her literary work.

Snowden has been living in Russia since June 2013 after leaking a trove of classified documents showing the scope of post-9/11 US government surveillance.