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Demonstrators marched through the semiautonomous Chinese region's streets on Sunday and carried banners calling for the rejection of "authoritarian rule" and demanded the city's Justice Secretary Rimsky Yuen step down.

The concrete sprawl of Scampia, a bastion of the ruthless Camorra organised crime group, was immortalised in the 2006 bestselling book "Gomorrah" by Roberto Saviano and in a popular spin-off film and television series.

The refugees follow more than half a million fellow Rohingya who have emptied out of northern Rakhine in a single month, fleeing an army crackdown and communal violence the UN says amounts to "ethnic cleansing".

North Korean culinary establishment Okryu-gwan may be a taste of home for East Asian patrons -- even South Koreans, according to the waitresses -- but it is also a source of contention for Washington and Seoul, both on a fresh drive to isolate Pyongyang.

The White House did not immediately congratulate German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her election, as is customary, after a campaign which saw Merkel implicitly criticise President Donald Trump.

The peace prize will be announced on October 6. The date for the literature prize is revealed only a few days in advance but traditionally falls on a Thursday, so October 5 and 12 are seen as possible dates.

Otto Warmbier's father said, "North Korea is not a victim. They're terrorists....They kidnapped Otto. They tortured him. They intentionally injured him. They are not victims."

Former president and army chief Gen Musharraf, who was last month declared a fugitive by an anti-terrorism court which ordered seizure of his property in the Bhutto murder case, accused PPP co-chairman Zardari of "having the most to gain from Benazir Bhut...

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho suggested leader Kim Jong Un was considering testing "an unprecedented scale hydrogen bomb" over the Pacific in response to US President Donald Trump's threat at the United Nations to "totally destroy" the country.

Swaraj met her counterparts Aloysio Nunes Ferreira Filho and Maite Nkoana Mashabane from Brazil and South Africa respectively on the sidelines of the annual UN General Assembly session on Thursday.

Up to 15 million Australians taking part in the voluntary postal ballot can choose "yes" or "no" on whether gay marriage should be legalised, with the results to be released in mid-November.

Pope Francis, speaking in unscripted remarks to a commission advising him on how to root out sexual abuse, also acknowledged that early in his papacy he had made one bad call in being too lenient with an Italian priest who later went on to abuse again.

Under the 2015 deal, Iran agreed to limit its disputed nuclear program in return for the easing of economic sanctions. US President Donald Trump called the deal an "embarrassment" during his first speech at the United Nations on Tuesday.

US president Donald Trump, while announcing his new Afghan and South Asia policy in August, had criticised Pakistan for harbouring terrorists.

The shipment, being organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), was bound for the north of the state where insurgent attacks on Aug. 25 sparked a military backlash.

Opposition lawmakers and other members of a new anti-Duterte coalition performed the Hunger Games salute in unison on Monday while announcing protests on Thursday against his rule and drug war killings.