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Ata Ullah is believed to have ordered the deadly attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) in Myanmar's Rakhine state in August, provoking a ferocious offensive by security forces that has sent around 420,000 Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh.

Wang Yi also told the annual UN General Assembly China was committed to the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula and there should be no new nuclear weapons north or south of the border, or elsewhere in Northeast Asia.

The Saudi government is lifting a ban on calls made through online apps on Thursday but will monitor and censor them, a government spokesman said.

A South Korean presidential official told Yonhap news agency that Donald Trump's comments are mostly a repetition of a basic stance that all options will be considered when confronting North Korea.

The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) ruled in the parents' favour, finding the school had discriminated against Sidhak, it said.

Touch offered for rent life-sized sex dolls supposedly of Chinese, Russian, Korean and Hong Kong women, as well as an Amazon-like "Wonder Woman" with a sword and shield.

At least 21 members of the US mission in Havana and a smaller number of Canadians have suffered brain injuries and hearing loss in what have been reported as 'acoustic attacks', although US officials say their origin remains unclear.

President Donald Trump is willing to work with partners in the Paris agreement if the United States could construct a set of terms that are fair and balanced for Americans, Tillerson said on the CBS' "Face The Nation."

Analysts predict PML-N will win again but they say Imran Khan's party would build momentum ahead of the 2018 poll if PTI candidate Yasmin Rashid, a gynecologist from the area, substantially reduces the PML-N's 40,000 vote-winning margin from 2013.

Nearly 400,000 Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar have crossed into Bangladesh since Aug. 25, fleeing a Myanmar government offensive against insurgents that the United Nations has branded a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".

After the North's latest test, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called on China to use the oil it supplies to North Korea as leverage to pressure the isolated nation into reconsidering its nuclear programme.

Prime minister Shinzo Abe on Friday called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council and said Japan can never tolerate that North Korea trampled on the international community's resolve toward peace that has been shown in UN resolutions.

The nursing home deaths brought the total number of storm-related fatalities in Florida to 20 and illustrated the urgency of restoring electricity to millions of people across the southern state.

US President Donald Trump last week abrogated an order issued by his predecessor Barack Obama that protected around 800,000 young people by granting them temporary legal status as part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program.

Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has urged 'independentistas' to take to the streets on Monday in a massive show of support for the referendum.

Hurricane Jose, a Category 4 storm, is expected to swipe Saint Martin and Saint Barthelemy after storm Irma headed towards Florida.