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The French government office that rules on asylum requests rendered its decision last week, granting Grace Meng refugee status.

A government report published on Friday warned that Pakistan's growth rate is set to hit an eight-year low, with the country’s GDP rate likely to sink to 3.3 percent.

US District Judge Amit P. Mehta made his announcement on Thursday in a brief notice to both sides after receiving a first round of written arguments in the case.

The Govorit Moskva radio station said on Friday that its editor-in-chief, Sergei Dorenko, died of internal bleeding after an aorta rupture.

Muslim groups say they have received dozens of complaints from across Sri Lanka about people from the community being harassed at workplaces, including government offices, hospitals and in public transport since the Easter Sunday attacks.

Trump on Thursday urged Iran's leadership to sit down and talk with him about giving up Tehran's nuclear programme and said he could not rule out a military confrontation given the heightened tensions between the two countries.

Some Democrats argue that the document lays out multiple occasions in which the president may have obstructed justice, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, a 2020 presidential candidate who has called for impeachment proceedings.

The launch came hours after the North through its state media described its earlier firing of rocket artillery and an apparent short-range ballistic missile on Saturday.

The White House's move escalated a constitutional clash between the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives and Republican President Donald Trump over its powers to investigate him.

Now their venue is a bamboo shelter in a Bangladeshi camp on the edge of a trash-filled swamp, their audience a curious crowd of fellow refugees. But for the first time in decades they are free to play music.

The negative turn in sentiment over the talks between the world's two largest economies shook Wall Street, causing major stock indexes to tumble more than 1 percent.

Gujranwala, a city north of Lahore, has been a particular target of brokers, with more than 100 local Christian women and girls married off to Chinese in recent months.

Channel D, which was launched two years ago and operated from its boutique studio in Jumeirah, also had a unit in Kochi in Kerala.

Four months old bear cubs Bradley and Cooper were found by a local in the village of Kozani in Greece, and because they were kept in a sheep pen for a week, it was too late to reunite them with their mother.

The egg appeared to strike Prime Minister Scott Morrison on the back of the head on Tuesday then bounce off without breaking as he spoke to voters at a hall in the regional town of Albury.

The swift deterioration in negotiations between the world's two largest economies hit global financial markets as investors faced the prospect of an escalation rather than an end to a 10-month-old trade war.