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Gay rights advocates have expressed dismay at the Trump administration's record on LGBTQ issues, including a ban on transgender individuals serving in the U.S. military.

Nearly 5% of inspections have found cracks in a 'pickle fork' - a part that attaches the plane's fuselage, or body, to the wing structure and manages forces.

Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria, but added that the US 'does not endorse' Turkey's operation.

Trump said in a White House statement that al-Asiri was killed in 2017 in a United States counter-terrorism operation in Yemen.

The arrests were the latest dramatic development in a political saga that threatens Trump's presidency.

Television images showed security officers wrestling the couple to the ground outside a local university after the attack on the 72-year-old Wiranto, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.

The assault on Wednesday took place as Jews marked the holy day of Yom Kippur, with the gunman filming the attack and posting a video online in which he launched a diatribe against Jews.

Trump this week pulled back US troops from northeast Syria, essentially abandoning the Kurdish fighters who have been America's only allies in Syria fighting the Islamic State group.

The move is the latest in a series of measures aimed at increasing the rights of women in the kingdom, even as rights groups accuse Riyadh of cracking down on women activists.

Lam said Beijing wanted Hong Kong to solve its own problems, but under its mini-constitution, known as the Basic Law, Hong Kong could ask Beijing for help.

By law, Japan offers comparatively generous parental leave. Both parents can take up to a year off, with additional renewable six-month periods if a nursery place is unavailable.

October 9 was first declared World Post Day at the 1969 UPU Congress in Tokyo Japan. The proposal to celebrate the day was submitted by Shri Anand Mohan Narula, a member of the Indian delegation.

James Peebles was awarded the prize for 'theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology' and Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won it for 'the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.'

The US and China will hold the next round of trade negotiations on October 10, the White House announced on Monday, as the two major trading powers tried to end their bruising trade war.

Carrie Lam was speaking at a news conference after a long weekend of violent protests at which thousands of people defied colonial-era emergency powers imposed on Saturday that had banned the wearing of face masks.

Trump's statement came following his decision to withdraw American forces from northeastern Syria.