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The white supply vessel is bringing back a host of science experiments, including lab mice that were studied in orbit to see how their bones changed in microgravity.

At the NRA's annual convention in Dallas, Trump called again for arming teachers and increasing school security to head off future mass shootings like the one in Parkland, Florida in February that killed 17 people. Such measures are supported by the NRA.

Pyongyang has in the past blamed Seoul for failing to stop previous leaflet launches, calling them "an act of war". The two Koreas even traded fire in 2014 after the North's military shot machine guns at balloons launched by defector activists.

Iran blocked Telegram - widely used by Iranians, the state media, politicians and companies - earlier this week to protect national security, state television said, weeks after a similar move by Russia.

A utopian vision of a just society for some, a blueprint for totalitarian regimes for others, Marxist thought is laid out in the Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital.

"We will be examining closely the details of the announcements of the winding down of Cambridge Analytica and the status of its parent company," a spokeswoman for the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said in a statement.

Her biography posted by the CIA on its website said that her first overseas assignment was as a case officer in Africa and quoted her as saying, "It was right out of a spy novel. It really didn't get any better than that."

Jewish groups also condemned Abbas' comments, made in a speech on Monday to the Palestinian National Council, that Jews had suffered historically not because of their religion but because they had served as bankers and money lenders.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders disputed the doctor's characterisation of the episode, calling the incident a 'standard operating procedure' for all new Presidents.

Ross said Trump was ready to impose tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum imports and to further punish Beijing over its intellectual property practices under so-called Section 232 and Section 301 trade investigations.

All three of the neighbours are deeply involved with North Korea -- the South as its neighbour, key US ally Japan as a sometime target for its threats, and China as its key diplomatic backer and business partner.

Foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi called the accusations that Tehran lied about its nuclear ambitions "worn-out, useless and shameful".

Ulaanbaatar topped New Delhi and Beijing as the world's most polluted capital in 2016, UNICEF said in a report warning of a health crisis that has put every child and pregnancy at risk.

US President Donald Trump, who regularly lobs sharp attacks at the news media, declined to attend the journalism awards dinner for the second consecutive year.

The White House press shop has shown no interest in a solo Presidential news conference. Instead, Trump engages the press in more 'informal settings' that aides say offer reporters 'far more access, more often, than past administrations'.

Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan outlined a populist 11-point plan to usher in a new era of prosperity that he envisages for Pakistan after the July general election.