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The president later told reporters in an impromptu news conference on the White House lawn he had given Kim a phone number to allow him to reach Trump directly.

Italy summoned France's envoy on Wednesday and angrily rejected French criticism of its immigration policies, escalating a diplomatic row that is widening one of Europe's main political fault lines.

The Shanghai native, who asked that her full name be withheld, misled friends and family with a macho facade but eventually, depressed by her identity crisis, underwent gender-reassignment surgery in 2015.

Dmitry Peskov said that the summit had helped reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

The two top judges of Malaysia are the latest in the line of bureaucrats to step down amid allegations of corruption in Najib Razak's regime

Rodman, who has struck up an unlikely friendship with the basketball loving North Korean leader, arrived in the city-state some nine hours before Trump met with Kim in a bid to negotiate an end to a decades-old nuclear stand-off.

Over 2,500 journalists are covering the summit, the first between a sitting United States President and a North Korean leader.

Vladimir Putin in talks with Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz to help him set up the upcoming summit with Donald Trump considering federal capital of Austria, Vienna, to be the possible venue for the summit.

The government official, who agreed to speak only on condition of anonymity, said he could not provide up-to-date statistics, but acknowledged the number of separations had risen sharply in recent weeks, largely because of new administration policies.

As he exited the world summit, Trump had delivered a stark warning to America's trading partners not to counter his decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

Donald Trump cited the unprecedented nature of the meeting and said he was convinced that the North Korean leader is serious about doing good things for his country.

Dennis Rodman has made five trips to Pyongyang since Kim Jong-Un took power and once called him his "friend for life."

President Donald Trump has made his hard-line stance on immigration an integral part of his presidency and has promised to build a wall along the US-Mexican border to stem the flow of migrants.

Donald Trump will meet Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12, a first-ever meeting between sitting North Korean and US leaders and one focused on Pyongyang's ominous nuclear weapons program.

"Whatever the fallout, he (Zardari) told Obama, it's very good news. It's been a long time. God be with you and the people of America," Ben Rhodes, who was Obama's close aide at the White House writes in his latest book.

The main door of the mosque in south of the city centre had been set on fire at about 3.45am (local time) on Monday. A few minutes later, the door of the Gurdwara was also set on fire, the report said.