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Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the ruling Communist Party, has launched a high-profile campaign targeting party, government, military and state owned company officials suspected of corruption.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Iraqi PM Adil Abdul Mahdi that those who violated human rights should be held accountable.

The fund will be used for cushioning the economic blow of Britain leaving the European Union without a negotiated agreement, the finance minister said.

Activists say the incident highlights growing repression of women in Bangladesh despite laws to protect them from abuse and sexual assault.

Trump has declined to release his tax returns and there have been various attempts to obtain them, including by the Democratic-led House of Representatives.

They established the basis for our understanding of how oxygen levels affect cellular metabolism and physiological function, the jury said.

Before attending the 74th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, Imran Khan had first visited Saudi Arabia.

More than 100 people have been killed in Iraq since clashes erupted last week between protesters and security forces, the majority of them demonstrators struck by bullets.

London hinted Sunday that it could soften its position on 'problematic' aspects of its Brexit plan, while calling on the EU to show 'flexibility'.

Fouzia Azeem, better known as Qandeel was strangled to death at her home in Multan in the Punjab province on July 15, 2016, in a chilling murder that sent shock waves across Pakistan.

Duterte, 74, was the oldest person to be elected president of the country and questions about his health have swirled since taking office in 2016.

Khan's visit to China, third since he took over as Prime Minister in August last year, acquires significance as it comes days ahead of President Xi's planned high-profile visit to India.

The deadline to make the deposits ended at 12 noon on Sunday and Sirisena was not among the 41 candidates who had paid deposits in order to handover nominations on Monday.

The clashes came after authorities earlier in the day lifted a round-the-clock curfew in the capital meant to quell the unrest, sparked by popular anger over lack of jobs and endemic corruption in the oil-rich country.

The investigation picked up steam as Democrats in the House of Representatives began interviewing a key US intelligence official on a whistleblower complaint that alleged abuse of office by the president.

In the video, a man named Sameen, who is the president of the shopkeepers union, is seen guiding police in the detention of the hairdressers.