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Nuclear-armed North Korea is barred from ballistic missile tests under UN resolutions, and its recent repeated testing of short-range missiles have been condemned by European members of the UN Security Council. Trump, however, has dismissed the tests as '...

The physical remand of former Pakistan PM and PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was extended till August 15 in an ongoing probe into a graft case related to the awarding of a contract to a liquified natural gas firm.

The move comes in response to an effort to address a problem discovered in June during a Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) simulator test.

Four mass shootings happened in public places so far this year, compared with 10 in 2018 and seven in 2017. But 2019 saw a big increase in the number of mass killings in domestic disputes, helping to keep this year's overall numbers similar to past years.

Civil Aviation Authority vice-chairman Shashi Danatunge said they had irrefutable facts to prove that Ravana was the pioneer and the first to fly using an aircraft.

Because of the measure, the government may lose about 4.3 billion rupees ($24 million) in revenue it could have earned from charging visas.

A forced marriage protection order can be used to help someone who is being forced into marriage or who has been subjected to one, according to the government's official leaflet on the orders.

The blast took place close to a police vehicle at the Bacha Khan Chowk in the remit of the City Police Station on Tuesday.

Members of the German government have been clear that freedom of navigation should be protected, said a spokeswoman of the US Embassy in Berlin.

Trump took aim at Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings, a high-profile critic of his administration whose district covers much of the majority black city of Baltimore.

Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 1986, the 20th century has seen a loss of over 95 percent of the world's wild tiger population.

Brazil’s part of the Amazon has lost more than 1,330 square miles of forest cover since Jair Bolsonaro took office in January, a 39% increase over the same period last year.

Trump had attacked Representative Elijah Cummings, a champion for civil rights, in a series of tweets on Saturday, after the lawmaker had criticised conditions at US facilities housing migrants along the Mexican border.

An initial quake of magnitude 5.4 that struck the Batanes islands was followed shortly by an aftershock of magnitude 5.9, according to Philippines government data. Another big aftershock struck a little later.

Most victims have drowned but some have even been killed by landslides, snake bites and lightning strikes.

State minister for European affairs Amelie de Montchalin said President Emmanuel Macron would hold Brexit-related talks with Boris Johnson in France in the coming weeks.