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"You would be shocked to see how totally prepared we are if we need to be," Trump said in an interview while discussing tensions with North Korea.

US President Donald Trump's broadside came a day after the White House defended chief of staff John Kelly after he mischaracterised Democratic congresswoman Frederica Wilson's remarks and called her an "empty barrel" making noise.

EU leaders have indicated they expect to decide on Friday — at a meeting without British Prime Minister Theresa May — that there has not been enough progress made on the divorce issues to move onto the future trading relationship and a transition.

Omar Khalid Khorasani's death comes ahead of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's visit and is likely to help ease tensions between the often-wary allies.

May travelled to Brussels on Monday for dinner with senior EU officials, hoping to nudge the Brexit talks forward to look at future ties which she says will help London make advances on calculating a financial settlement.

The Strasbourg-based ECHR said Navalny and his brother Oleg's convictions for fraud and money laundering were based on an unforeseeable application of criminal law and that the proceedings were arbitrary and unfair.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said at an EU meeting in Luxembourg: "We made a very good offer ... Let's get these negotiations going and stop letting the grass grow under our feet."

Climate, free trade, health care, immigration, foreign policy -- the 45th US president has set about undoing just about everything done by the 44th.

While psychologists typically refrain from diagnosing someone from afar, some say Weinstein -- who is accused of sexually assaulting a string of actresses over the years -- fits the profile of a sexual predator, not an addict.

Duterte said he would resort to a revolutionary government, as opposed to martial law that would require congressional approval, if communists and other opponents tried to destabilise his rule.

The decision is the most dramatic action Trump has taken yet to weaken the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, which extended insurance to 20 million Americans.

British Prime Minister Theresa May indicated she too might make a move at next week's Brussels summit. A spokeswoman said “there will be more to say there” on a promise May made last month to honour financial commitments when Britain leaves.

Trump signed an executive order aimed at letting small businesses band together across state lines to buy cheaper, less regulated health plans for their employees with fewer benefits.

The ECP ordered that the PTI chief "be arrested and brought for the next hearing of the case" filed by PTI dissident and one of the party's founding members, Akbar S. Babar, on October 26.

Nisha Desai Biswal replaces Mukesh Aghi, who quit USIBC in July because of the differences he had over the working and imposing style of US Chambers of Commerce, which tried undue interfere in the independent working of the US India Business Council.

In a speech to regional lawmakers in Barcelona that drew both praise and criticism from separatists, Catalan president Carles Puigdemont said on Monday he had accepted "the mandate of the people for Catalonia to become an independent republic" following a...