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The External Affairs Minister has said the pending resolution on Kashmir introduced by Jayapal in the House is not a fair characterisation of the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.

A Palestinian security source in Gaza confirmed that at least three Hamas sites were hit, causing damage.

The announcement came after the government said it had found fault with the sentence, apparently taking sides in a split between the military and the judiciary.

A two-thirds majority — 67 senators — is required to convict and remove the president from office. But Republicans control the Senate, 53-47, and Trump is widely expected to be acquitted.

After the stabbings, the assailant stole the man's car and drove into the suburb of Tigard, where he stole another woman's car and stabbed her.

It was Pervez Musharraf's first reaction to Tuesday's court verdict, which had already been denounced by the country's powerful military.

No one claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attack, though religious hardliners over the past year have raised a scare on social media that some children were being poisoned and dying from contaminated vaccines.

The aircraft carrier named after Shandong Province in east China was launched from Sanya, located in the South China Sea coast by President Xi Jinping.

The nuclear-armed North has issued increasingly strident declarations in recent weeks, even promising an ominous 'Christmas gift' if Washington does not come up with some concessions.

Commuters and tourists faced a 13th straight day of traffic headaches as train drivers kept up their strike against President Emmanuel Macron's overhaul of a pension system that allows them to retire as early as their 50s.

Pervez Musharraf is accused of unlawfully suspending the constitution and instituting emergency rule in 2007.

Sulakhan Singh, 39, was found guilty of murdering Sukhwinder Singh last week following a trial at Leicester Crown Court. He was also found guilty of possessing a bladed article in a public place.

Hong Kong media have speculated that Lam's talks with Xi could yield fresh directives on the city's political crisis, including a possible cabinet reshuffle.--

Old splits between rich polluters and developing nations re-emerged over who should slash greenhouse gas emissions by how much, and how to pay the trillions needed to live in a climate-addled world.

The articles of impeachment will now be considered by the full House, which is expected to vote next week to impeach Trump.

Jo Swinson, who campaigned on a pledge to revoke Brexit if elected, was beaten into second place by the Scottish National Party (SNP) in her East Dunbartonshire seat in western Scotland.