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The delegation was led by communications strategist Joel Rosenberg and included former US congresswoman Michele Bachmann.

India's Ministry of External Affairs said on Wednesday the bus service will be a violation of India's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Asia Bibi, a 47-year-old mother of four, was convicted in 2010 after being accused of insulting Islam in a row with her neighbours.

His comments came after the far-right governor-elect of Rio de Janeiro, Wilson Witzel, met with criticism after announcing he would deploy police snipers to shoot suspects even if officers' lives are not in danger.

The luxury bus service to be started by a private transport company will be officially launched on November 13 and will be operational between Lahore in Pakistan to Kashgar in China, the state-run Radio Pakistan reported.

"We should settle this through parliament, but if we take it out to the streets, there will be a huge bloodbath," Jayasuriya told reporters.

Kamala, a rising star in the opposition Democratic Party and a potential presidential candidate, is the first Indian-origin US Senator. She represents the state of California.

The decision, by local politicians, comes a month after residents elected a new governor who opposes plans to move the US Marines' Futenma Air Station from an urban area to a sparsely populated part of the island.

Prime Minister Imran Khan secured the Saudi package at a high-profile investment conference in Riyadh that has been boycotted by several other leaders over the death of a dissident Saudi writer at the country's consulate in Istanbul.

The children, aged between nine and 12 years, received bullet injuries on their legs in the incident and are now stable.

The visa curbs came as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Khashoggi's killing inside the Saudis' Istanbul consulate had been meticulously planned, in a speech that overshadowed a long-planned investment forum in Riyadh.

His statement on Tuesday, came a day after he claimed that people from the Middle East and members of the MS-13 criminal gang were part of a caravan of migrants from Latin American countries, including Honduras.

The Saudi rulers met Khashoggi's son Salah and brother Sahel at the royal palace, the state-run news agency reported.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised to reveal the "naked truth" about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Donald Trump has kept near-daily Twitter attacks on the approaching caravan, calling it a national emergency, and saying he had alerted US Border Patrol and military to take action.

Other world leaders have boycotted Saudi Arabia's investment conference over the death of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Turkey. Imran Khan said that he is concerned at journalist's death but could not skip the conference.