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The three-hour 'Howdy, Modi!' event in which President Donald Trump will join PM Modi is being organised at the sprawling NRG Football Stadium, one of the largest in the US.

Temperatures are already rising faster in this vast mountainous zone than the global average, speeding up melting of glaciers that provide water for farmers, hydro-electric power plants and drinking water for millions of people.

Boyd spent 20 years as Washington bureau chief of Knight Ridder, once the nation's second-largest newspaper chain with properties like The Philadelphia Inquirer and Miami Herald.

Walmart's move comes on the heels of bans on sales of flavoured vaping products in New York and Michigan and after the Trump administration announced plans to remove all flavoured e-cigarettes.

The standoff has even raised the possibility of yet another election -- which would be the third to be held in a year following April polls that also ended inconclusively.

Gulalai Ismail has been accused of treason, but human rights defenders say she is being targeted for highlighting abuses committed by Pakistan’s military.

Christine Lagarde only last week left her post as IMF chief after eight years, the first woman to serve in that role, and she is going to be the first woman to serve as president of the European Central Bank.

Parts from the stricken plane, which was not carrying weapons and was flying from Belgium to a French base on a training mission, crashed into houses in the Morbihan region around the town of Pluvigner.

The Saudis on Wednesday displayed missile and drone wreckage at a press conference, and cited other evidence they alleged shows the raid was 'unquestionably sponsored by Iran.'

Sandy Hook Promise was founded by relatives of victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012, in which a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children.

Greta Thunberg maintained a busy schedule in Washington: demonstrating at the White House, meeting indigenous South American leaders and gathering on the Supreme Court steps with children suing the government for climate inaction.

US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke on Wednesday of a 'united diplomatic response' to the attack on Saudi oil installations.

Sharif, 69, has been serving a seven-year prison term at the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore since December 24, 2018 when the accountability court convicted him in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills graft case.

29-year-old, Artyom Manukyan has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for vandalising Hollywood Sikh Temple on Vermont Avenue in Los Feliz in 2017, in the US, according to a media report.

Without kingmaker Avigdor Lieberman's endorsement, both parties appear to have fallen well short of securing a parliamentary majority with ideological allies.

The malaria vaccine pilot programme is now fully underway in Africa, with Kenya joining Ghana and Malawi to introduce the landmark vaccine as a tool against a disease that continues to affect millions of children in Africa.