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On Wednesday, Sall told his ministers that he wanted to better control the "lifestyle" of the state machinery, including the administration's telephone, water and energy bills as well as the cost of the fleet of official vehicles.

The vote in parliament came a week after powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr appealed to young people to stop playing PUBG or watching football matches.

Bishop Patrick Chauvet acknowledged that the famed monument would close down for "five to six years" as he spoke with local business owners Wednesday, two days after a blaze torched the roof of the cathedral and brought down its spire.

Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir was ousted by the army last Thursday after four months of protests against his three decades of iron-fisted rule.

A record 245,000 candidates are running for public office, from the presidency and parliamentary seats to local positions — the first time all are being held on the same day.

Washington's Centre for Strategic and International Studies said in a report that satellite imagery of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear site from April 12 showed five specialised railcars near its Uranium Enrichment Facility.

The alert came four days before the 20th anniversary of the April 1999 massacre at Columbine, when two heavily armed students stormed the suburban Denver high school and fatally shot 12 classmates and a teacher before committing suicide.

The 57-story Torrespacio building, one of four skyscrapers that makes up a business park in northern Madrid, is being resettled to normalcy after the police found the threat to be false.

The exact cause of the blaze wasn't known, but French media quoted the fire brigade as saying it was 'potentially linked' to a 6 million euro ($6.8 million) renovation project on Notre Dame Cathedral's spire and its 250 tons of lead.

Donald Trump's armchair observations were striking, even for a president who seems to offer an opinion about just about everything.

US has warned that Turkey would be shut out of the F-35 project if it buys the Russian S-400 defence system.

EU governments on Monday backed the move launched by the European Commission two years ago to protect Europe's creative industries, which employ 11.7 million people in the bloc.

The sticking points, however, are the demands for market-determined exchange rates and sharing details of Chinese loans which Pakistan is reluctant to do.

Senators Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris have led the field of Democratic contenders in fundraising in 2019, raising $18.2 million and $12 million respectively.

India is the world's largest beneficiary of the GSP, dating from the 1970s, but trade ties with the US have widened over what Trump calls its high tariffs and concerns over New Delhi's e-commerce policies.

US authorities have reportedly already sent Great Britain a provisional arrest warrant regarding Assange's extradition.