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Speculation is also rife that Wang is due to visit Islamabad this week to take part in the China-Pakistan-Afghanistan trilateral meet during which he was also expected to hold talks with top Pakistani leaders.

The Swedish-owned Stena Impero was detained by Iran's Revolutionary Guards on July 19 in the Strait of Hormuz waterway for alleged marine violations, two weeks after Britain detained an Iranian tanker off the territory of Gibraltar.

The extradition bill triggered months of unrest and posed the gravest challenge to Chinese leader Xi Jinping since he came to power in 2012.

Five security personnel were injured in the operation carried out by the counter-terrorism police and intelligence agencies near Eastern Bypass in the provincial capital Quetta.

The moves came a month after a deadly shooting at a Texas Walmart claimed 22 lives.

Ujwal Sriharsha Sanne, the son of Khammam district BJP president Sanne Uday Pratap, had been missing for a few days and a large-scale search was launched for the 24-year-old assisted by a police helicopter.

Bolsonaro is due to undergo surgery next Sunday to correct an incisional hernia, his fourth operation since he was stabbed nearly a year ago during the presidential campaign.

The vessel has been zigzagging in the eastern Mediterranean since it was released from the British overseas territory of Gibraltar on August 18, after being held for six weeks on suspicion it was delivering oil for Tehran's ally Damascus.

Rev. Dan Reehil, the priest of Nashville's St. Edward Catholic School said he consulted exorcists in the US and Rome who recommended removing the books.

Counter-demonstrators waving Chinese flags approached the rally in Vilnius, triggering a disturbance and police later fined two Chinese citizens for disturbing public order.

Ranil Wickremesinghe's visit to Maldives comes amidst an internal struggle in his United National Party (UNP) over the naming of party's presidential candidate.

A young female protester, Ka Yau Ho, said a photograph shared online of her being detained by the police during a rally was altered so it appeared her nipples were showing.

When Sri Lankan presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa was defence chief in his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa's government he crushed ethnic Tamil separatist rebels, bringing a 26-year-long civil war to a close.

A gunman near Odessa, Texas, killed seven and wounded 21 more after fleeing a traffic stop on Saturday. His motives remain unclear.

If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 20 years of imprisonment. New York City Police Commissioner James O'Neill said Chudhary had carefully planned, conducted reconnaissance, picked a target, and was in the process of obtaining the weapon.

Police have arrested one of the suspects named Arsalan, a friend of the prime accused Mohammad Hassan who married the Sikh girl.