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'Great news out of Turkey,' Trump tweeted, shortly before Vice President Mike Pence announced in Ankara that Turkey had agreed to end its military operation once Kurdish fighters withdraw from a safe zone.

The president's acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney also said that climate change will not be on the agenda of next year's G7 summit.

Ankara says Syria's main Kurdish force, the People's Protection Units, is a "terrorist" offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, which has waged a bloody insurgency inside Turkey since 1984.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office said that deputies showed up at the couple's house in the upscale neighborhood of Hope Ranch following an emergency call about a family dispute and found Valerie Lundeen Ely, 62, dead.

The accused was arrested and driven to a police station. As she was being brought out of the vehicle, she bit the left arm of a female police officer accompanying her.

The election chief said electronic voting systems will replace the current manual paper voting, for which India's assistance would be taken, in the next provincial polls, dates for which have not yet been announced.

Police said all four victims are related to the suspect, Shankar Nagappa Hangud, a data specialist who had worked for several companies in the Sacramento area.

Nancy Pelosi said, 'there is no requirement that we have a vote and so at this time we will not be having a vote.'

The businessman, Lev Parnas, is a close associate of Giuliani and was involved in his effort to investigate Trump's political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.

Britain and the EU are currently locked in last-ditch talks to secure a divorce deal ahead of a crunch two-day summit for European leaders in Brussels starting Thursday.

The operation threatens to drive large parts of the population from their homes, Merkel said, noting that it would also risk 'destabilisation of the region and lead to a resurgence of the IS'.

The demonstrators congregated on Sunday in shopping malls in Sha Tin and Tseun Wan holding umbrellas and wearing masks in defiance of a recently imposed ban on face coverings.

Animated show 'South Park' has been targeted by China for its recent episode, 'Band in China', in which it made fun of the country's censorship and had a major character deliver an epithet as a response.

Relations between the important trading partners have deteriorated in recent years amid accusations that China is meddling in Australian domestic affairs and Australian fears that China is seeking undue influence in the Pacific region.

Since the trade war began last year, however, moments of comity and cheer have more than once been shattered, giving way to jolting deteriorations in relations between the two sides.

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