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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov urged all parties to seek a "peaceful resolution" to the current stand-off with Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons program, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement.

In just a few hours, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) hiked Maria from a Category Two to a Category Four hurricane, packing winds of 209 kilometres per hour that it forecast would strengthen further over the next day or so.

Snapchat has blocked Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera from its app in Saudi Arabia at the request of Saudi authorities, the image sharing service said Monday, as tensions simmer between the Gulf states.

Bangladesh has been overwhelmed by the exodus and struggling to house the refugees in the shelters being built with assistance from UN and other international organisations.

North Korea has launched dozens of missiles under Kim's leadership as it accelerates a weapons program designed to give it the ability to target the United States with a powerful, nuclear-tipped missile.

Nearly 80,000 people have been evacuated from coastal regions in preparation for Doksuri.

The UN has accused Myanmar of waging an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya, a stateless group that the Buddhist-majority country refuses to recognise as citizens.

The coastline where Hurricane Max made landfall is sparsely populated and dotted with fishing villages.

Ambulances and a Lifeflight helicopter were sent to the spot after the incident took place at Freeman High School in the tiny town of Rockford, south of Spokane.

The fire broke out in the two-storey religious school Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah's building, located in the centre of the capital Kuala Lumpur.

Bangladesh's foreign minister said Sunday that genocide was being waged in Myanmar's violence-racked Rakhine state, triggering an exodus of nearly 300,000 Muslim Rohingya to his country.

Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army urged Myanmar to "reciprocate this humanitarian pause" in fighting, with huge numbers of displaced moving across Rakhine many believed to be in desperate need of help after over two weeks of violence.

The bill extends US borrowing authority and funds the federal government until December 8, and frees up emergency relief funding just as Florida braces for a direct hit from Hurricane Irma

The new decision states that the ban must exclude "refugees who have a formal assurance from an agency within the United States that the agency will provide or ensure the provision of reception and placement services to that refugee."

Keegan Jakovlevs from Wrexham in north Wales had pleaded guilty to publishing material with the intention of stirring up religious hatred. He was sentenced at Mold Crown Court in Wales on Thursday under the UK's Public Order Act 1986.

The opening ceremony of the three-day BRICS summit started with BRICS Business Council in Xiamen in Fujian province amid a downpour triggered by typhoon Mawar which had caused widespread disruption to the summit preparations and the city's traffic.