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The 400-mile-wide storm blew ashore in the mostly cleared-out Florida Keys, then began a slow trek up the state's west coast, its punishing winds extending clear across to Miami and West Palm Beach on the Atlantic side.

Pakistan's Supreme Court had tasked the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to register corruption cases against ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his children, son-in-law Muhammad Safdar and finance minister Ishaq Dar within six weeks.

The bill now heads back to the House of Representatives, which approved a USD 7.9 billion, stand-alone emergency relief package Wednesday with no debt ceiling or government funding language.

In the last two weeks alone 1,64,000 mostly Rohingya civilians have fled to Bangladesh, overwhelming refugee camps that were already bursting at the seams and triggering warnings of a humanitarian crisis.

Australians will now begin voting in the non-compulsory ballot as early as next week, with a result expected some time in November.

Federica Mogherini told reporters ahead of the EU ministers' meeting in the Estonian capital: "Today we are facing a different level of threat that is clearly a threat to global peace and security.

On a visit to Kiev last month, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said he was actively reviewing sending lethal weapons to Ukraine to help it defend itself, an option that previous US president Barack Obama vetoed.

South Korea, after weeks of rising tension, is talking to the United States about deploying aircraft carriers and strategic bombers to the Korean peninsula, and has been ramping up its own defences.

US President Donald Trump and South Korea's leader Moon Jae-In agreed during a phone call late on Monday to remove limits on the payload of the South's missiles, fixed at 500 kilograms according to a 2001 bilateral agreement.

The English-language paper had been given a deadline of one month to pay $6.3 million for years of back taxes, which the publication disputed and described as "astronomical".

The South and the United States will deploy more of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) missile launchers that have infuriated Beijing, South Korea's defence ministry said.

U.S. President Donald Trump flew to Houston on Saturday to meet with victims of Hurricane Harvey and see the effects of the record-setting storm while he presses for a multi-billion-dollar aid package.

Authorities said the death toll could rise over the weekend as emergency crews surveyed the damage in villages with ramshackle homes.

Former two-time premier Bhutto was killed in a gun and bombing attack in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007 when she came out of park after addressing an election rally.

The announcement comes over a week after President Donald Trump hit out at Pakistan for providing safe havens to terror groups that kill Americans in Afghanistan. He also warned Pakistan that it has "much to lose" by harbouring terrorists.

More than 70 years after the end of the World War, unexploded bombs are regularly found buried on German land, legacies of the intense bombing campaigns by the Allied forces against Nazi Germany.