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Donald Trump told his Cabinet colleagues that he received a letter of congratulations from news anchors.

The White House said Trump had said the United States was open to talks with North Korea "at the appropriate time, under the right circumstances."

Vijay Patel, 49, was attacked in Mill Hill area of the city on Saturday night and rushed to hospital, where he died of head injuries on Monday.

Ed Royce, one of the founders of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans, said he wants to spend the remaining months of his term to focus on "urgent threats" the US was facing.

He has been abandoned by financial patrons, condemned by erstwhile political allies and ridiculed by Trump himself over his reported comments in the book, which he has not denied making.

Rakhine was plunged into turmoil last August, when a series of insurgent raids prompted a military backlash so brutal the UN says it likely amounts to ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya minority.

Young became one of the most accomplished astronauts in the history of the US space program. He flew into space twice during NASA's Gemini program in the mid-1960s, twice on the Apollo lunar missions and twice on space shuttles in the 1980s.

The US official pointed out that China has been playing a more helpful role in terms of encouraging better relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"It would be tremendously bad policy to tell highly-skilled individuals who are applying for permanent residency and have been working in the US for several years that they are no longer welcome," a US Chambers of Commerce spokesperson said.

At least two thieves are thought to have entered the exhibition of Indian and Indian-inspired gems and artefacts owned by Qatari Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah al-Thani, mixing with other visitors.

The vast majority came from Eritrea and Sudan and many said they fled war and persecution as well as economic hardship, but Israel treats them as economic migrants.

This development comes three years after the US quashed Israel’s attempt at killing Soleimani, the report by Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida said

The confirmation comes after US President Donald Trump accused Pakistan of giving nothing to the US but "lies and deceit" and providing "safe haven" to terrorists in return for USD 33 billion aid over the last 15 years.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday issued a decree appointing new ministers for defence, industry and information, state television reported.

The demonstrations, which began Thursday over the economic woes plaguing Iran and continued Sunday, appear to be the largest to strike the Islamic Republic since the protests that followed the country's disputed 2009 presidential election.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said China will resolutely uphold the authority and status of the UN, actively fulfil China's international obligations and duties.