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Puigdemont, who lives in self-imposed exile in Belgium, has been visiting Finland since Thursday for talks with lawmakers and had been due to leave Saturday afternoon.

Trade tension between China and the United States flared this week when President Donald Trump unveiled plans on Thursday to slap tariffs on potentially up to $60 billion in Chinese goods.

China, which looks at Maldives as a major participant in its 21st century Maritime Silk Road plan in the Indian Ocean, has made heavy investments in the nation of islands which has 26 tropical atolls and 1,000 small islands.

Prosecutors accuse Lee of taking a total of 11 billion won (USD 10 million) in bribes from his own intelligence agency, business groups and others.

France, the world's third-biggest arms exporter, counts Saudi Arabia and the UAE among its biggest purchasers, and France's biggest defence firms, including Dassault and Thales, have major contracts in the Gulf.

The House of Representatives planned to debate and vote on the measure later on Thursday morning.

Although the exact specifics of Uber's technology are not known, self-driving cars typically use a combination of sensors, including radar and light-based Lidar, to identify objects around the vehicle, including potential obstacles coming into range.

US President Donald Trump's call of congratulations drew him bruising criticism from members of his own party even before The Washington Post reported that aides had given him instructions not to do so.

Htin Kyaw, who became president in 2016, was Myanmar's first elected civilian president and head of its first government to be elected in free and fair polls since a 1962 military coup.

In the long run, 500 metres by car with a mid-range vehicle will cost one kilogramme of glacier ice, researchers said.

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has alleged that the Congress party had links with Cambridge Analytica. "My question to Congress party is whether to win elections, Congress will depend on data manipulation and theft of data," he said.

Hawking's children, Lucy, Robert and Tim said they chose to hold the funeral in Cambridge in recognition that it is the city their father "loved so much and which loved him".

Officials did not say if they believed the device, which exploded at the FedEx facility in Schertz, Texas, was the work of a "serial bomber" who police feared may be responsible for the four earlier devices, which killed two people and injured six others....

Professor Leonid Rink, who worked under the Soviet Union at a chemical weapons facility where the Novichok military-grade nerve agent was developed, dismissed British media reports that Yulia Skripal could have unwittingly carried the nerve agent from Mos...

The findings follow a similar analysis by the same researchers of Draghi's Japanese counterpart, Haruhiko Kuroda, last year, which claimed to have identified a correlation between patterns in his facial expressions and subsequent policy changes.

Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar and Republican John Kennedy called for Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg to appear before Congress, along with Google and Twitter's CEOs.