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Ambassador Asad Majeed Khan, who is on a rare visit to Houston this week, noted that the United States also appreciated Pakistan's commitment in its first reaction to the designation on Thursday.

The police said a 42-year-old suspect was arrested after the recovery of explosives.

Keyur Vyas, from east London, would befriend women online with the pretence of building a relationship with them by wining and dining them.

Turkey and China are the only two countries so far to have expressed a desire to continue large purchases of Iranian crude.

About 1.4 million tourists visited Uzbekistan in the first quarter of 2019. This is 972.3 thousand people more compared to the same period last year.

Naruhito has one daughter, 17-year-old Princess Aiko. But she is not eligible to inherit the throne because of a males-only succession law.

The government claimed a soldier was hit by a bullet during the clashes sparked by a call from Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido on the military to help him force President Nicolas Maduro from power.

Malaria kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, mainly in Africa, and it is hoped a vaccine will bring down the toll.

In a video recorded at a Caracas military air base posted on social media, the US-backed Guaido said troops had heeded months of urging to join his campaign to oust Maduro.

The ban on platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Viber has been lifted with immediate effect in Sri Lanka.

The group of 60, including three women and three children, were flown back to Sri Lanka in a special flight.

Sanchez's Socialist Party (PSOE) got 123 lawmakers out of 350, or close to 29 per cent of votes — short of an absolute majority but much better than the 85 seats it got in 2016.

China also expressed its support for Pakistan and said it would stand with Islamabad in all ties.

President Maithripala Sirisena used emergency powers to ban the National Thawheed Jammath and a splinter group identified as Jamathei Millathu Ibraheem (JMI).

Among the complaints is a previously unreported issue in Boeing 737 involving damage to the wiring of the angle of attack sensor by a foreign object.

The gunbattle began Friday night after police tipped off soldiers to a suspected safe house, where authorities say the militants set off three explosions and opened fire.