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A description of the gunman was not provided. The motive for the shooting is also unknown.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un also sent a message to Xi saying their countries' 'invincible friendship will be immortal on the road of accomplishing the cause of socialism,' said Pyongyang's state news agency KCNA on Sunday.

Egypt depends on the Nile for about 90 percent of its needs for irrigation and drinking water, and says it has "historic rights" to the river guaranteed by treaties from 1929 and 1959.

Mexico is the most dangerous country for journalists in the Western Hemisphere. The Committee to Protect Journalists says five journalists have been killed in the country this year.

Violent protests erupted across the Asian financial centre on Friday hours after its embattled leader Carrie Lam invoked colonial-era emergency powers, last used more than 50 years ago, to curb months of unrest.

This is the most complex tour undertaken by the Duke and Duchess to date, given the logistical and security considerations, Kensington Palace said.

Li Ka-shing's announcement came shortly before the city's chief executive Carrie Lam announced a law banning face masks in public, the latest move from a government that has struggled to control four months of increasingly violent pro-democracy demonstrat...

He turned to the courts, filing a lawsuit before a judge in Greenville under an 'alienation of affection' law dating from the 1800s, an era when wives were considered their husband's property.

Only Russia and the US currently possess such a warning system.

Tensions have been exacerbated by a near-total internet blackout, the closure of government offices in Baghdad and calls by firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr for "a general strike."

September's IHS Markit/CIPS services Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to a six-month low of 49.5, below the 50 level that divides growth from contraction.

Activists went on the rampage in districts across the Chinese-ruled city late into the night, hurling petrol bombs, setting fires, blocking roads and vandalising some shops and metro stations as police fired tear gas to disperse them.

Rouhani said the plan included preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, securing its support for regional peace, lifting US sanctions and the immediate resumption of Iranian oil exports.

China has grown more willing to apply pressure against other countries and accept friction in pursuit of its vision, said Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo Pacific Security Affairs Randall Shriver.

With less than a month until Britain is due to leave the EU, the future of Brexit, the country's biggest trade and foreign policy shift in more than 40 years, is uncertain. Britain could leave with a deal, without one or not exit at all.

The wildlife rescue group said it was 'horrified' by the 'apparent act of cruelty', with the three surviving joeys now requiring round-the-clock care.