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The three-day trade visit has seen May earn assurances from China that Brexit will not affect the country's enthusiasm for the so-called "golden era" of relations and a promise to open up Chinese markets to new British business.

Spokesman Chung Geun-Sik said many of them would be taken home unopened as souvenirs. "We don't expect the athletes to use them all," he added.

The White House cited a recent Harvard-Harris poll, according to which 79 percent of those polled believed the immigration system should be based on an aliens ability to contribute to America as measured by their education and skills.

The leaked study, published by the 'Buzzfeed' news website on Monday, suggested that in three different scenarios the UK economy would grow more slowly than it would if it stayed in the European Union.

The founder of the Moggery Rehoming Centre in Bristol Christine Bayka said the situation is 'more serious' than it has been in the last 20 years.

Some British politicians have said another referendum should be held on whether to leave the EU once the terms of departure and likely future relationship between Britain and the economic bloc are known.

The attack targeted the officers as they gathered in the San Jose neighborhood to receive their orders for the day in what police denounced as an "act of barbarity."

The 10 million pounds radar on Unst, Britain's most northerly inhabited island, is due to be fully operational soon, the Ministry of Defence said.

The Trump administration's debut at Davos caused a storm, not least because of comments by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who said this week the United States benefited from a lower dollar, which would make its exports cheaper.

Catalonia's newly elected parliament speaker, Roger Torrent, nominated Puigdemont on Monday as the sole candidate to be the regional president again, defying Spanish government warnings against such a move.

Senior U.S. officials hit back on Wednesday against suggestions that Donald Trump's "America First" agenda was hurting globalization and trade, setting an aggressive tone ahead of the U.S. president's visit to the World Economic Forum.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde said IMF research has showed that raising women's participation in the workforce to the level of men can boost Indian economy by 27 per cent.

Democrats had insisted that any short-term spending legislation to keep the government running include protections for young undocumented immigrants known as "Dreamers."

Trump, who in July 2016 said: "Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it," has asserted that past government shutdowns were the fault of the person in the White House.

The North's participation in the Winter Olympics in South Korea's Pyeongchang has been interpreted as an apparent diplomatic breakthrough after months of high tension over the North's nuclear and missile programme.

Lawmakers voted 111-69 to lift Andrej Babis's parliamentary immunity. Jaroslav Faltynek, the deputy chairman of Babis's ANO party, was also stripped of his immunity in another vote.