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Military honours will be paid to Jacques Chirac at the Hotel des Invalides in central Paris, before his coffin is taken in a procession to the church of Saint Sulpice.

Pornography played on the retailer's outdoor screens for up to nine hours -- until staff arrived at the shop around 10am on Sunday and switched them off.

The station is dedicated to the Haramain High Speed Rail system which opened to the public in October last year, transporting passengers between Mecca and Medina, Islam's holiest sites.

The new regulations require men and women to dress modestly and to refrain from public displays of affection. Women are free to choose modest clothing, a statement said.

Mugabe, who led a bitter guerrilla war to end white-minority rule in the country, was Zimbabwe's first leader and ruled from 1980, overseeing a years-long slide from prosperity to ruin and repression.

Johnson's supporters denounce the referral as a politically motivated attack launched just before the Conservative Party conference.

Alain Robert, 57, reached the top of the 154-metre building in just 30 minutes, causing passersby to stop, stare and take photos.

The Democratic-led House passed the joint resolution by 236-174, as 11 Republicans and one independent joined Democrats in casting yea votes. The Republican-led Senate approved the measure earlier this week by 54-41.

The white paper, while highlighting the CPS's 'peaceful rise' made no reference of the bloody 1962 war with India and the vast tracts of land, especially in the Aksai Chin area, occupied by China.

Venezuelan Ambassador Jorge Valero slammed the resolution as a 'hostile initiative', and said his country had no intention of cooperating with the new probe.

Benjamin Netanyahu, who is trying to form a new government following a deadlocked election, pledged before the vote to impose Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea which account for one-third of the West Bank.

The country is witnessing a surge in mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, malaria and chikungunya after incessant rains created favourable conditions for the breeding of the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

The quake's centre was in the town of Silivri in Istanbul province, Istanbul's Bogazici University Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute said, measuring it at magnitude 5.7.

According to a summary of the telephone call released by the Trump administration, Trump pressed Zelenskiy to investigate a political rival, former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden.

The world has been noticeably quiet about Xinjiang, where China has built a vast network of detention camps in a state-led operation to convert Uighur Muslims into loyal, secular supporters of the Communist Party.

The September 14 attacks on state oil giant Aramco, which initially halved the kingdom's crude output and sent global energy markets into a tailspin, have escalated regional tensions.