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Montenegro's government defended its contribution to peace in response to a verbal attack from US President Donald Trump.

Lucknow-born businesswoman Ruby McGregor-Smith joins the race alongside British Sikh politician Kulveer Ranger, both of whom will go head to head with the others at hustings next month before a vote on the final candidate by October.

Kamal Bains was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday in what is believed to be the first prosecution of its kind in the UK since new Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations were introduced in October 2015.

The new planes are set to be delivered "mission ready" by 2024, replacing the current Air Force Ones that are now 31 years old, according to a White House statement.

Vladimir Putin suggested on Monday, like Donald Trump has done repeatedly, that Robert Mueller's appointment as an independent prosecutor to pursue the investigation lacks legitimacy.

Trump held his meeting with Putin just days after a special prosecutor in the United States indicted 12 Russian agents for stealing Democratic Party documents to help him win the vote.

At a rambling news conference after one-on-one talks, Trump said not a single critical word about Russia on any of the issues that have brought relations between the Washington and Moscow to a post-Cold War low.

Critics of Beijing's policies say foreign firms are competing with Chinese rivals backed by massive, market-distorting subsidies and government support, issues not sufficiently addressed under WTO rules.

The accident took place before dawn on Monday in the town of Matiarai in southern Sindh province. Local police officials 17 people were injured in the crash and some were in critical condition.

The atheist ruling Communist Party has banned minors under 16 from religious activity or study in Linxia, a deeply Islamic region in western China that had offered a haven of comparative religious freedom for the ethnic Hui Muslims there.

Singer Majid al-Mohandis was performing at a festival in the western city of Taif on Friday when the woman darted on to the stage after which she was arrested and referred to the public prosecution to face charges under the law criminalising harassment.

On being asked about what they(Thai boys) were looking forward to eating, their wish list included slow-cooked pork leg with steamed rice, fried crispy pork, roasted red pork, sushi, steak and KFC.

The advocacy group said it feared the technique could be abused to violate the privacy of non-criminals.

At least ten people have been killed and around 35 injured when the blast hit the rally of the Baluchistan Awami Party (BAP) in the Derengarh area of Mastung district, police said.

Photographs on Chinese social media showed a huge fire and plumes of smoke rising from the facility. The fire, which broke out early on Thursday evening, was put out by 11:30 p.m.

This was the third terrorist attack on an election rally in Pakistan ahead of the general elections.