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Under the deal, which led to the lifting of most international sanctions in 2016, Iran's level of enrichment must remain around 3.6 percent.

US President Donald Trump, who regularly lobs sharp attacks at the news media, declined to attend the journalism awards dinner for the second consecutive year.

Amber Rudd, who was due to make a House of Commons statement later in the day, had been under increasing pressure to quit over the scandal involving Caribbean immigrants who were brought to the UK from the so-called "Windrush generation" from the 1940s.

Footage on state TV showed uniformed soldiers moving through battered streets with dense clouds of black smoke overhead, while the whizz and crash of artillery fire, the rattle of small arms fire and deep echoing blasts could all be heard.

Trump gave an unequivocal statement that he would sit down with Kim a meeting that has been tentatively scheduled for May or early June in what would be a first during six decades of hostility.

Analysts say it remains to be seen whether the vague statement will lead to more concrete steps toward complete denuclearisation of Korean peninsula.

The handshake between Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in marked the latest milestone in a rapid rapprochement after months of global fears about a nuclear conflict.

The US military attaché Col. Joseph Emanuel Hall, who is accused of running a red light and killing a motorcyclist, enjoys diplomatic immunity.

Trump has said that unless European allies fix what he has called "terrible flaws" in the accord by May 12, he will restore U.S. economic sanctions on Iran, which would be a severe blow to the pact.

The streets of Yerevan have turned into masses of human anger since anti-government protesters began rallying on April 13, blocking government buildings and facing off with police. Sunday's rally attracted some 50,000 demonstrators.

Macron and Trump will discuss the Iran nuclear agreement at the White House on Tuesday, a senior US administration official said on Friday.

Planning for Tuesday's state dinner, being held in honor of the official visit of French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, began months ago; it was then that Melania Trump started to think of the details, such as an ideal gift.

Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister said the two bike-borne assailants, who fired 10 shots at the 35-year-old Fadi al-Batash, are believed to be linked to a foreign intelligence service.

During the visit, the two presidents are expected to discuss the landmark 2015 nuclear deal signed by the US and other world powers and Iran, the official said. The deal lifted economic sanctions on Tehran, and in return put limitations on its controversi...

The CFM56 jet engine on Southwest flight 1380 blew apart over Pennsylvania on Tuesday, about 20 minutes after the Dallas-bound flight left New York’s LaGuardia Airport with 149 people on board.

Authorities declared an exclusion zone with an 800-metre (yard) radius around the site located just north of the central railway station to defuse the 500-kg British bomb which was discovered during building work this week, more than seven decades after t...