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Swaraj met her counterparts Aloysio Nunes Ferreira Filho and Maite Nkoana Mashabane from Brazil and South Africa respectively on the sidelines of the annual UN General Assembly session on Thursday.

One of those released is a 21-year-old, originally from Syria, detained outside a fast-food restaurant in west London on Saturday, a day after the rush hour attack on a subway train.

Liliane Bettencourt was the only child of Eugene Schueller, who founded L'Oreal in the early 20th century.

Leaving at least nine people dead in its wake across the Caribbean, Hurricane Maria blew ashore in the morning near the southeast coastal town of Yabucoa as a Category 4 storm with winds of 155 mph (250 kph).

In his first address to the annual 193-member U.N. General Assembly since taking office in January, Guterres said the crisis over North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile program must be solved through a political process.

Stanislav Petrov was on duty at a secret command centre south of Moscow in September 1983 when computers wrongly detected incoming missiles from the US but Petrov took the decision that they were a false alarm and did not report them to his superiors.

The 24-storey social housing block, home to a poor, multi-ethnic community, was destroyed on June 14 by a fire that started in a fourth-floor flat in the middle of the night and rapidly engulfed the whole building.

Outrage is growing over a military crackdown that has triggered an exodus of more than 400,000 Rohingya to neighboring Bangladesh in less than a month in what the UN has described as "ethnic cleansing. "

Frank Giaccio, who goes by the initials FX, was so focused on doing his job that he didn't even notice when Trump emerged from the White House to check out his work.

Pentagon spokesman Colonel Rob Manning said Defense Secretary Jim Mattis had directed senior officials to develop a plan to implement Trump's ban, but it doesn't need to be submitted to the president until February 21, 2018.

Friday, September 15, 2017, captured in photographs from across India and the world.

The UN has accused Myanmar of waging an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya, a stateless group that the Buddhist-majority country refuses to recognise as citizens.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been a major supporter of Doha in the crisis that has seen Qatar left diplomatically and economically isolated.

After more than a year of separation Syrian refugee Ammar Hammasho was finally, albeit briefly, reunited with his wife and four children through a chain link fence topped with barbed wire in Cyprus.

"The bad news is that this (Hurricane Irma) is some big monster," Donald Trump told reporters at the White House, saying damage from the storm would be very costly.

The North's Foreign Ministry issued a statement early on Monday saying it is watching the United States' moves closely and threatened it is "ready and willing" to respond with measures of its own.