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The Generalised System of Preference (GSP) is the largest and oldest US trade preference programme and is designed to promote economic development by allowing duty-free entry for thousands of products from designated beneficiary countries.

China, from April 30 have suspended imports of pork by companies, Olymel LP and Drummond Export. This comes with after China-Canadian ties have turned icy since last December.

The group of around 40 women were among some one million people believed to be held in a network of internment camps that authorities downplay as "vocational education centres".

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said Baghdadi's appearance was an attempt to boost militants and that Islamic State would attempt to carry out more attacks.

On March 26, the Supreme Court suspended Sharif's sentence in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case and granted him bail for six weeks but with a condition that he would not leave Pakistan during that period.

The bill was passed by parliament last week in retaliation for President Donald Trump's decision this month to designate Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards a foreign terrorist organisation.

The 56-year-old resigned from the party after Nine Network television on Monday night broadcast his antics in the Washington, D.C., club in September that were secretly videoed.

In Baghdadi's first purported appearance in five years, a cross-legged speaker said to be the world's most wanted man referred to the group's defeat last month in its final redoubt of Baghouz and threatened revenge attacks.

The police chief in Sri Lanka can only be removed through a parliamentary procedure and Sirisena's action suspending him is the first step towards that, the officials said.

The move comes just days after a parliamentarian submitted a Private Member’s Motion to ban the burqa on security grounds.

Zainee Hashim, Rilwan Hashim and their father Mohamed Hashim, who were seen in a video circulating on social media calling for all-out war against non believers, were among 15 killed in a fierce gun battle with the military.

Washington has decided not to renew exemptions from US sanctions to buyers of Iranian oil, in an effort to cut Iran's vital oil exports to zero.

Presidential spokesman said the move allows the government to confiscate any property belonging to the organisations linked with the ghastly terror attack.

The claim carried a photograph of two men before an IS flag, one carrying a Chinese variant of the Kalashnikov rifle like the one found at the scene, another smiling.

Sri Lanka Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera said that they expect a 30 percent drop in arrivals and that means a loss of about $1.5 billion in foreign exchange.

Sirisena, who is also the defence minister, said Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara resigned over failures which led to the attacks on three hotels and three churches on Sunday that claimed 253 lives.