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A total of 292 turtles were found dead, the Federal Attorney's Office for Environmental Protection said on Thursday, adding that 27 were saved and will be nursed back to health before being released back into the wild.

The elections on Saturday, which are said to have a potential global impact, will set the course for the democratic island's ties with its giant and autocratic neighbour China, which claims Taiwan as its territory.

The House of Representatives, where the Democrats enjoy a majority, had impeached Trump last month.

The Iranian government, in a statement, urged Canada to share its information after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said 'multiple' intelligence sources indicate that Iran shot down the Ukrainian airliner.

US officials believe that Iran accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner, killing all of the 176 people on board, US media reported Thursday.

Indian-American biochemist Har Gobind Khorana, who won the 1968 Nobel Prize for medicine, was on Thursday honoured by the Pakistani university Government College University Lahore.

Pope Francis had apologised during his New Year's Day blessing for having lost his temper earlier when a woman aggressively grabbed his hand as he greeted pilgrims in St. Peter's Square.

The winning debut work follows eleven-year-old Asha, who is empowered with spiritual connections to her grandmother as she journeys through the wild and dangerous Himalayas with her best friend Jeevan.

The Arabian Sea region is strategically important for India as major ports including Kandla, Okha , Mumbai, Nhava Sheva (Navi Mumbai), Mormugo, New Mangalore, and Kochi are located there.

The Air France Boeing 777 had taken off from Abidjan on Tuesday evening and landed at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport early in the morning.

With 24 people and around a billion animals dead, Australia is struggling to contain the massive blazes, even with firefighting assistance from other countries, including the United States.

Iran's strikes came in response to a US drone attack last week that killed top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

Palestinians seek the West Bank and east Jerusalem as parts of a future independent state. Palestinians, and most of the international community, consider Israeli settlements in the two areas to be illegal.

The tweet came a day after Tehran announced it was further winding down observance of parts of an international deal struck to ensure that the country does not secretly develop a nuclear weapon under cover of its civilian nuclear industry.

'The motherland has always been Hong Kong's most powerful backing,' Luo Huining said in his first public remarks since becoming the head of China's liaison office in the city over the weekend.

The Pakistan Foreign Office said that Qureshi held telephonic conversations with his counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Iran, the UAE and Turkey to discuss the regional situation unfolding in the region.