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The US President indicated that he does not see China and Russia as rivals in the struggle to get North Korea to give up its nuclear arsenal.

Donald Trump took a dig at Joe Biden calling him "sleepy Joe" and expressing doubts over his decision to contest against him.

President Maithripala Sirisena had asked Defence Secretary Fernando and Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara to quit after their failure to prevent the blasts despite having prior intelligence.

In the most recent 12 months dominated by war, political crises and humanitarian emergencies across the globe, Chad took the unwelcome honor of being the world's most negative country.

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner is expected to present the comprehensive plan next week to President Donald Trump, who will decide whether to adopt it as his official position or send it back for changes.

The island nation was tipped off by Indian intelligence officers about the Sunday attacks two hours before it happened, but the report had failed to reach both the Prime Minister and the President.

Police said the death toll had risen to 359 from 321 overnight, with about 500 people wounded, but did not give a breakdown of casualties from the three churches and four hotels hit by the bombers.

According to NASA's Bruce Banerdt, the quake detection 'marks the birth of a new discipline: Martian seismology'.

The IS statement on Tuesday said three fighters it named as Abu Obeidah, Abu Baraa and Abu Moukhtar were behind the attacks on the Shangri-La, Cinnamon Grand and Kingsbury hotels.

IS' elusive supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had in recent years called for attacks on Saudi Arabia, which is part of a US-led coalition that has been battling the jihadists in Syria and Iraq since 2014.

Giuliani said Trump's legal team was weighing whether it would release a detailed written rebuttal to the Mueller report.

Saturday's attack began when a suicide bomber detonated explosives just outside the ministry building and three other assailants then entered the premises.

The poll found that 50 per cent of Americans agreed that 'Trump or someone from his campaign worked with Russia to influence the 2016 election,' and 58 per cent agreed that the president 'tried to stop investigations into Russian influence on his administ...

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren's call came a day after the release of a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, outlining the findings of his 22-month investigation.

The group has called for non-violent civil disobedience to push the British government to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2025 and to stop what it calls a global climate crisis.

The French Heritage Foundation, which has so far collected more than 13 million euros (USD 14.5 million) from individual donors to help restore the gothic landmark, said any phone or email appeals were fake.