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Francis will likely focus on issues of religious freedom and fraternity in his public remarks. Unlike all his other foreign trips, he will not deliver a political speech.

Firefighters' vehicles were used to evacuate about 200 people in need after they had been trapped for hours, with temperatures around freezing, the spokesperson said.

Despite his exile in India since 1959, the Dalai Lama remains the most revered religious figure in the Himalayan region.

Western experts say Iran often exaggerates its weapons capabilities, although there are concerns about its long-range ballistic missiles.

The plaintiffs in the Louisiana case argue the new law "will have disastrous consequences for women in the state," where 10,000 women seek abortions every year.

At the time of their arrest, the reporters were probing the extrajudicial killing of 10 Rohingya men at Inn Din village in northern Rakhine state.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said that God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times and that she thinks he wanted Donald Trump to become president.

More than 70 years after the Holocaust, Brexit has prompted Wallfisch and thousands of other Jews in Britain to apply for German citizenship, which was stripped from their ancestors by the Nazis during the Third Reich.

The city's taxi drivers started the protests last week against the private services, which offer rides that often undercut taxi prices and can be hailed via the internet rather than in the street.

The HuffPost's parent company is Verizon Media (formerly Oath Inc), which owns other digital platforms such as AOL, Yahoo! and Verizon Media Services — all of which are suffering job cuts.

News of progress on a deal comes as the Taliban continue to stage nearly daily attacks against the Western-backed Afghan government and its security forces.

'It must be because of my skin color that you're asking me whether I condemn or don't condemn police violence', Prime Minister Antonio Costa, who is of Indian descent on his father's side, told the inquiring legislator.

The launch of the negotiations at the World Trade Organization is a rare win for international cooperation, with Beijing and Washington locked in a trade war and repeated threats to multilateralism by US President Donald Trump.

Trump said the Reciprocal Trade Act would give the US workers a fair and level-playing field against other countries. Trump had also flashed out a green colour board that had examples of non-reciprocal tariffs from various countries.

They called for a "coalition of the willing" to embrace the Paris Call, a multi-stakeholder declaration that favours the development of common principles for securing cyberspace.

A traffic warden had on Tuesday issued the challan to the Sikh youth riding the motorcycle for non use of the helmet.