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Sharif, 69, is currently serving seven-year imprisonment in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case in Kot Lakhpat jail

The evacuation zone stretched across both banks of the Main river, forcing the suspension of several train services on top of the general lockdown.

The Alex was escorted to Lampedusa by an Italian naval vessel and a sea patrol boat. Dozens of policemen waited on the quay in front of the boat. Migrants stood on the deck wearing life jackets.

In the video released on Saturday, top aid Ali Akbar Velayati said increasing enrichment closer to weapons-grade levels was 'unanimously agreed upon by every component of the establishment.'

Young people have taken the lead in protesting against the extradition legislation, which many see as a threat to the rights guaranteed to Hong Kong under the "one country, two systems" framework that governs the Chinese territory.

The gathering is worrying Muslim traders and residents in Kandy, an ancient capital that was rocked by violence last year as mobs ran amok for three days vandalising mosques, homes and businesses.

Those rescued had told Tunisian officials that 86 people were on board their inflatable boat when it left from the Libyan town of Zuwara, west of Tripoli, on its way to cross the Mediterranean to Italy.

Both men running to succeed British Prime Minister Theresa May — Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt — say they want to renegotiate the divorce agreement thrashed out with the EU.

A 12-member Dallas County jury took a little more than three hours on Wednesday to reach its unanimous decision on a life sentence for Wesley Mathews, who pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of injury to a child in the death of his 3-year-old adopted daug...

President Maithripala Sirisena had earlier said he was committed to bringing back capital punishment for drug offenders, months after vowing a tougher line on spiralling narcotics-related crime.

The United States and China, meeting on Saturday on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan, agreed to restart talks on ending the trade battle.

In New York City, Friday marked the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, when a police raid on a gay bar in Manhattan led to a riot and days of demonstrations that morphed into a sustained LGBTQ liberation movement.

US President Donald Trump tweeted that surprise invitation to Kim Jong-Un at a G20 summit in Japan and even a short meeting at the line dividing the two Koreas would be a remarkable diplomatic spectacle.

Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmena, whose term officially ends on Sunday, claimed that he spent his 'personal money' to spruce up the office when he assumed charge three years ago.

The award-winning website Bellingcat said late Friday that its joint analysis with the BBC helped establish the command structure Moscow's GRU network of foreign agents, used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and conduct other attacks.

Police made the arrests after an investigation started in 2018 revealed an alleged network of carers who used methods including electroshock to make the children believe they had been sexually abused.