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During previous hearings of the case, Sharif's counsel Khawaja Haris told the court that his client was suffering from multiple dangerous diseases, which cannot be treated in Pakistan, pleading to grant him bail as his life is in danger.

More sentences are expected to be handed down on Thursday. Among them is US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, who Turkey accuses of ordering the attempted putsch which left hundreds dead and thousands more injured in July 2016.

The late leader, affectionately known as 'Uncle Ho' in Vietnam, is preserved in a large Soviet-built mausoleum in capital Hanoi.

The female bear, visibly weak and seemingly ill, lay despondently on the ground for hours on Tuesday in Norilsk's suburbs, its feet caked in mud, occasionally rising to sniff around for food.

The United States in a report accused North Korea of breaching the United Nations-imposed ceiling on fuel imports and carrying out dozens of ship-to-ship transfers.

India's designation as a beneficiary developing nation under the key GSP trade programme was terminated by Trump after determining that it had not assured the US that it will provide 'equitable and reasonable access to its markets'.

Philip Arps, 44, was arrested in Christchurch four days after gunman Brenton Tarrant's March 15 rampage at two mosques became modern New Zealand's worst massacre.

Although there has been a decrease in the number of nuclear arms, all nuclear weapon-possessing countries are modernising these arms - and China, India and Pakistan are also increasing the size of their arsenals.

The scale of the outage was such that generators had been unable to compensate. By midday, power had returned to some sectors of Buenos Aires but the metro and trains were still halted. Public hospitals and private clinics were running on generators.

US State of Secretary Mike Pompeo hopes 'this will be among the issues that they discuss' in a couple of weeks at the G20 summit in the Japanese city of Osaka.

James Reitz had been a judge in Putnam County since 2007, according to the New York Law Journal. Before that, he was a lawyer with a private practice.

A German tourist was killed by a falling tree in a camping in Haute-Savoie, and 10 people were slightly injured in the Drome and Isere departments

Netanyahu was fined 10,000 shekels ($2,800) and ordered to reimburse the state a further 45,000 shekels, the latter of which she will pay in nine installments, at her request.

Tehran and Washington have both said they have no interest in starting a war, but this has done little to assuage concerns that the two arch foes could stumble into a conflict. Guterres said the world cannot afford a major confrontation in the Gulf.

Valery Plotnikov, a top researcher at the local branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said the animal belonged to an ancient subspecies of wolf that lived at the same time as the mammoths.

The self-proclaimed white supremacist has been charged with 51 counts of murder, 40 of attempted murder and engaging in a terrorist act.