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The extradition bill, which will cover Hong Kong residents and foreign and Chinese nationals living or travelling through the city, has sparked concerns it may threaten the rule of law that underpins Hong Kong's international financial status.

Father Augustine was ordained in 1886, becoming the first African-American Catholic priest, and returned to Illinois to serve in black parishes in that state until his death in 1897.

The property was one of the three hotels hit by the suicide attacks on April 21. While the other two hotels had reopened in recent weeks, most of the sections of the Shangri-La remained closed.

The arrest took place after a two-member Lahore High Court (LHC) bench dismissed bail applications filed by Hamza Shahbaz, 44, after his lawyer opted to withdraw the pleas in two corruption cases.

The pilot of a helicopter that attempted an emergency landing on the rooftop of a 51-storey building has been confirmed to be dead, while no casualties were reported from inside the building.

The tree came from a northern French forest where 2,000 US Marines died during the First World War.

The G20 ministers heaved a sigh of relief just hours before the meeting when the US and Mexico clinched a deal over immigration that stopped Washington imposing five per cent tariffs on Mexican goods.

The case has brought the issue of sexual violence against children to the forefront in Sierra Leone, where such crimes are often dealt with between families in private.

The theme for World Oceans Day 2019 is 'Gender and the Ocean', which urges to promote gender equality in ocean-related activities like marine scientific research, fisheries, labour at sea among others.

Speaking alongside Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, Macron said that the summit aims to ease tensions on world trade.

The move aims to choke off financing to the country's largest and most profitable petrochemical group and extends to its 39 subsidiaries and 'foreign-based sales agents,' the Treasury Department said in a statement.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, together with his delegation, arrived in Khartoum, Sudan this morning for talks.

The agreement, which caps the number of nuclear warheads well below Cold War limits, is set to expire in two years' time.

The small but wealthy country has been under a trade and transport boycott by Saudi Arabia and its allies since June 2017 that has forced it to retool an economy once heavily reliant on fellow Gulf states.

The 500-244 vote came after a March 24 general election that opposition parties say was designed to extend and legitimise military dominance over government.

Despite tens of thousands of people being moved off the streets and into permanent housing in the last year, the Californian county was just unable to keep up with the constant rise in the number of people falling into homelessness.