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The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued its strongest possible warning about the "historic" rainfall and said more was set to batter already saturated areas through Sunday, raising the danger of more landslides and major damage.

The death of the former military diver highlights the perils of the Thailand cave rescue operation to extract the team from deep inside the waterlogged cave, raising questions about the feasibility of bringing youngsters out the same way.

"How dumb (do) they think (Russia) is to use 'again' so-called 'Novichok' in the middle of the FIFA World Cup...The show must go on?," Russia's embassy to the Netherlands wrote on Twitter on Thursday.

Officials have said they prefer to get the boys out as soon as possible because heavy rain is expected to start by Saturday, which almost surely will raise water levels again in the cave, making passage in some areas even more difficult if not impossible.

The pair, a local 44-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man, were hospitalised after being found unwell on Saturday in Amesbury, just miles away from Salisbury where ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were attacked in March.

The suggestion made by President Donald Trump stunned those present at the meeting, including US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and national security adviser H R McMaster, both of whom have left the administration.

The woman, Therese Okoumou, told police she was protesting the separation of immigrant children from parents who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, according to a federal official who was briefed on what happened but wasn't authorized to discuss it a...

The 57-year-old businessman fell into a 10-metre (32-foot) void, sustaining serious injuries that emergency services were unable to treat at the site.

The Wisconsin-based motorcycle manufacturer said on June 25 that tariffs imposed by the EU would increase the average cost per motorcycle by about USD 2,200 and the company, as a result, will shift some of its production overseas.

The Court of Final Appeal judgement ends the protracted legal battle by "QT", who has entered into a civil partnership in Britain in 2011 and moved to Hong Kong with her partner the same year.

The IS propaganda agency Amaq announced, Al-Badri was killed in an operation against the Nussayriyyah and the Russians at the thermal power station in Homs.

Kristin Mink posted a video of the encounter with the EPA Chief, Scott Puritt, on her Facebook page, writing that he "was 3 tables away as I ate lunch with my child. I had to say something."

Antonio Halili was hit in the chest by a single shot fired from a distance, unleashing chaotic scenes during the weekly flag raising ceremony at the town hall in Tanauan, south of Manila.

The social media giant's acknowledgement came as a part of a more than 700-page document dump to the US House Energy and Commerce Committee on Friday evening.

Slovakia is the EU's leading car and car part exporter to the United States in terms of share of GDP — and the most vulnerable to tariffs.

Trump said on Twitter on Saturday that he asked Prince Salman to increase oil production "to make up the difference...Prices to high! He has agreed!"