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Crowds of people marched in the capital's central boulevards for a protest "stroll" over the refusal by officials to let a number of opposition candidates run in September polls for city parliament seats.

Chanting in Chinese: 'Civil servants, add oil!' in words of encouragement for the movement, crowds spilled onto major roads, closing them down and halting traffic in the heart of the city's business district.

Corine Bastide ran off the road and into the woods last week near the southeast city of Liege. It was only when family friends were putting up missing posters days later that they spotted the vehicle and responders were able to extract her.

Thursday's vote in the Welsh sheep farming community of Brecon and Radnorshire offered a stark choice between a Brexit-backing candidate from Johnson's Conservative party and a Liberal Democrat who wants to preserve Britain's four-decade stay in the EU.

In El Salvador, any intentional termination of a pregnancy can be prosecuted as a crime, including stillbirths due to home delivery or abortions induced because of medical emergencies.

The paintings have been displayed previously at the George W Bush Presidential Center in Dallas and featured in a book, "Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors."

It was a crisp opening salvo to a debate where fireworks are expected, one night after the debate between 10 other candidates exposed deep fault lines in the party between the progressive wing and centrists.

Engine readings, compass data, altitude and other readings "could all be manipulated to provide false measurements to the pilot," according to the DHS alert.

South Korea's second-largest full-fledged carrier does not currently have plans to discontinue any routes to Japan, but it is monitoring the situation, a spokesman at Asiana Airlines told Reuters.

The man also pushed the boy's mother but she survived. Police were unaware of any connection between the man and the victims and his motive was unclear.

The rally came a week after the capital's biggest protest in years when some 22,000 marchers called on officials to reverse rulings and allow opposition activists to stand for the city council in September.

Trump's target in a series of tweets was US Representative Elijah Cummings, the Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives Oversight Committee, who has called Trump a racist and sharply criticised his immigration policies.

Trump resorted to tapping funds from the Defence Department after failing to persuade Congress to appropriate more money for the wall in a standoff that led to a 35-day-long partial shutdown of the federal government.

The five BRICS nations recognised the primary role of states and their competent bodies in preventing and countering terrorism.

On entering Downing Street, UK PM Boris Johnson vowed to negotiate a new deal and threatening that if EU refused, he would take Britain out on October 31 without a deal to limit economic dislocation.

Eight employees of the ministry of mines and petroleum were killed and 27 wounded in an attack on their bus, ministry officials said in a statement. Five women and a child were among the dead.