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Sharif appealed to the court to extend exemption from personal appearance in proceedings against him in Chaudhry Sugar Mills case, the report said.

Police in the German capital said Saturday that unknown people opened fire outside the Tempodrom, located near Potsdamer Platz in the center of the city.

Another 2,277 new suspected cases were reported Friday, said the Chinese National Health Commission.

Police said that the ex-ambassador, who is also closely related to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's family, was arrested in connection with an investigation into the Sri Lankan military's 2006 purchase of four second-hand MiG-27 aircraft from Ukraine.

The Turkish president, who had raised Kashmir earlier in the UN, also announced his country's backing to Pakistan so that it comes out of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list.

The extent of Arctic sea ice was 5.3% below the average from 1981-2010, and Antarctic sea ice was 9.8% below the average.

Total confirmed cases in the Hubei province have now reached 51,986, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

How the trillion trees initiative migrated from billionaire Marc Benioff PowerPoint presentations to the president’s pronouncements, first at Davos and then his State of the Union address, is a study in ad hoc policymaking at the Trump White House.

Alok Sharma, 52, has a tough role ahead of him as the man in charge of the UK's climate strategy and also bringing about global consensus on some contentious issue around greenhouse gas emissions at the summit in Glasgow.

Adm. Philip S Davidson, commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command, told a foreign policy think-tank in Sydney that all nations in the region were involved in a strategic competition 'between a Beijing-centric order and a free and open Indo-Pacific.'

Uliana Solopova, a spokeswoman for the Moscow City Court, confirmed the incident and said the court was trying to work out how Sviridov had managed to obtain a weapon. Russian courts generally have metal detectors and security guards at the entrance.

Earlier, the force had said they are concerned for the welfare of 34-year-old Komal Karaji, who got into a taxi from her home in Leicester on Tuesday afternoon and travelled to Leicester Railway station.

Vendors at the Tomohon Extreme Meat market on Sulawesi island say business is booming and curious tourists keep arriving to check out exotic fare that enrages animal rights activists.

Experts in crisis management said the Japan government was offering a textbook example of how not to handle a public health crisis.

The United States will continue to build support around the world to confront the Iranian regime's reckless ballistic missile activity, Mike Pompeo said.

Nepal government is preparing to bring back Nepalese nationals currently residing in Wuhan city of China through a chartered flight of Nepal Airlines in a few days, official sources said.