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Tension has been growing between the two communities in Sri Lanka over the past year, with some hardline Buddhist groups accusing Muslims of forcing people to convert to Islam and vandalising Buddhist archaeological sites.

The woman accused An Hee-jung, Governor of South Chungcheong province and a leading hopeful in last year's presidential election, in a television interview on Monday evening.

Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who starts talks in London on Wednesday, has won Western plaudits for seeking to reduce Saudi Arabia's reliance on oil, tackle chronic corruption and transform the deeply conservative, mainly Sunni Muslim kingdom.

"We've not seen decisive and sustained changes yet in Pakistan's behaviour, but certainly we are continuing to engage with Pakistan over areas where we think they can play a helpful role in changing the calculus of the Taliban," said Alice Wells, Principa...

The western countries recently reaccused the Syrian army of using chemical weapons in attacks against rebels, most recently in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta countryside of Damascus.

"The mistake that our trade negotiators made way back then and continued to make was not time limiting it, concessions that were perfectly reasonable to make to Germany in 1945 or China in 1945 don't make sense anymore. Those are now very mature, big, str...

In the closed-door remarks, a recording of which was obtained by CNN, Trump also praised China's President Xi Jinping for recently consolidating power and extending his potential tenure, musing he wouldn't mind making such a maneuver himself.

Almost 1.7 million homes and businesses were without power in the Northeast and Midwest as the storm pummelled the East Coast from Virginia to Maine. Government offices in Washington closed as winds gusted to more than 60 mph (96 kph) in the U.S. capital.

The robbery took place in the central Ninth Arrondissement of Paris, which is home to a number of diamond trading businesses.

The early morning incident put the campus into lockdown — trapping students in classrooms and dormitories until mid-afternoon — while police conducted an expansive search for the 19-year-old suspected gunman.

The latest killings were part of a cycle of unrest between the Hema and Lendu communities in the northeastern province, the government told AFP.

After weeks of rumors and counter-rumors about his administration's intentions, President Donald Trump on Thursday announced he would sign off on measures designed to protect US producers next week

It was not clear who was behind the violence but Burkina Faso and other West African countries have been targeted by jihadist groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State in the past few years.

Gereshk police chief Ismail Khplwak said the man — who was detained by Afghan Special Forces during a night raid — was the "military adviser of Mullah Nasir", commander of the Taliban's elite "Red Unit" in Helmand.

China has poured billions of yuan into domestic security, but the secretive Ministry of State Security and the Ministry of Public Security in recent years have been hit with high-level corruption scandals and intelligence failings.

Mazlevski, who became interested in IS and frequently viewed its online content in recent years, joined the jihadist group's internet forums, Israeli authorities said.