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The statement called on people to attend a ceremony scheduled to take place at Tehran University on Monday.

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed "severe revenge" after a US drone strike on Friday in Baghdad killed Qasem Soleimani, the powerful commander of the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force foreign operations arm.

Kane Tanaka's record age is symbolic of Japan's fast-ageing population, which coupled with its falling birthrate is raising concerns about labour shortages and prospects for future economic growth.

Temperature records were smashed, and gale-force winds pounded fire-stricken coastal communities in the two most populous states New South Wales and Victoria.

The outbreak, which emerged last month, has revived memories of the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic that started in southern China and killed more than 700 people in the mainland, Hong Kong and elsewhere.

Democratic lawmakers and aides say congressional leaders including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, both fierce Trump critics, were left in the dark about the deadly strike.

The man had attacked several people in a park in Villejuif in Parisian suburbs before he was 'neutralised,' the Paris police department said.

President Donald Trump ordered the killing of the Iran Revolutionary Guards commander, who died Friday, 'in a decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad', the Pentagon said.

The dead were identified as crew master Gary Cobban Jr., David Lee Cobban, Arthur Ganacias, Brock Rainey and Seth Rousseau-Gano after search-and-rescue operations were called off amid rough weather.

Gun battles have killed at least three people this week in the northern city bordering the Texas city of Laredo, media have said. It one of the Mexican cities where the US government has sent asylum seekers to wait as their cases are decided.

A phone recovered from his car included repeated internet searches for 'German Jewish Temples near me' and 'Prominent companies founded by Jews in America,' the complaint said. Five people were stabbed and slashed in the Saturday attack north of New York...

The arrests were made for offences including 'unlawful assembly and possession of offensive weapons'. Organisers claimed more than a million people participated in the rally.

US Chief Justice John Roberts will preside over a Senate impeachment trial, while the Supreme Court he leads will rule on a titanic clash over the president's attempts to keep his financial records secret.

Tuesday began with small-scale lunchtime rallies, followed by marches through several prime shopping malls and giant human chains in various districts across the Chinese-ruled city.

The disquieting situation in Hong Kong, which continued to witness mass protests, especially by youth who often turned violent, figured high in Xi's customary New Year's Eve speech over the state-run China Central Television.

The new law gives authorities more enforcement powers and could speed up measures the industry is already taking to identify robocalls. And when phone companies block robocalls, they must do so without charging consumers.