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The slow-moving storm has brought catastrophic flooding to Texas, killed at least nine people, led to mass evacuations and paralyzed Houston, the fourth most-populous U.S. city.

A family of six is believed to have died after drowning in a white van while trying to escape the floods.

Her bruised eyes still swollen shut, Buthaina Muhammad Mansour, believed to be four or five, doesn't yet know that her parents, five siblings and uncle were killed when an air strike flattened their home in Yemen's capital.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, the latest to target Afghanistan's minority Shiites.

The White House said 85-year-old Arpaio was a "worthy candidate" for the pardon, citing his "life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration.

As a precautionary measure, schools and universities in Houston and nearby areas have cancelled classesas Harvey continues to gain strength,prior to a projected landfall on Friday at the Texas Gulf Coast.

Kian Loyd Delos Santos, 17, was among more than 90 people killed in three days of intensified police operations last week that marked the bloodiest chapter of a campaign that has alarmed the international community.

Celebrations are planned nationwide, including weddings timed to coincide with the eclipse and a live Caribbean cruise ship performance of the 1983 hit Total Eclipse of the Heart by the singer herself, Bonnie Tyler.

The United States condemns the terror attack in Barcelona, Spain, and will do whatever is necessary to help, US President Donald Trump tweeted.

The UN estimates there are up to 25,000 civilians trapped inside Raqa, the jihadist group's erstwhile de facto Syrian capital.

The message was difficult to decipher from the photo made available by the park service, but the government agency said it "appears to state '[expletive] law.'"

The Qatar-based operations centre is undergoing a series of upgrades to its top-secret computer systems to transform how war planners here do business.

North Korea's Kim Jong-Un has just overseen his second test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, bringing much of the US mainland within reach and presenting US President Donald Trump with a crisis.

The pilot escaped unharmed. The crash disrupted flights to and from the island nation off the coast of Saudi Arabia that's home to the US Navy's 5th Fleet.

The US move came four days after the United States, Australia and Japan denounced Beijing's island-building and militarisation of the South China Sea on the sidelines of a security forum of the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in M...

Jim Mattis said, “The tragedy of war is well-enough known it doesn’t need another characterization beyond the fact that it would be catastrophic”.