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Syria's war has killed more than 380,000 people and displaced millions since it started in 2011.

Surprised Buckingham Palace officials say those discussions are just beginning and many complex issues remain to be worked out.

General Amir Ali Hajizadeh told Iranian state television that dozens of US forces were killed and wounded "but we were not after killing anyone in this operation".

The defendant, who has appealed the verdict, had peppered co-workers' food with mercury and other substances over several years, leaving one in a coma and two others with serious kidney damage.

Harry and Meghan made their announcement to step back from their senior roles in the royal family late on Wednesday, taking Queen Elizabeth, Harry's grandmother, and Prince Charles, Harry's father, by surprise.

The report detailed what is said was China’s crackdown on religious minorities, labor activists and the press, and focused extensively on treatment of the minority Muslim Uighur population in Xinjiang.

Iran has one of the world's worst traffic safety records, with some 17,000 annual deaths in road accidents.

The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Wednesday the Iranians were thought to have targeted the attacks to miss US forces to prevent the crisis from escalating out of control .

US Ambassador Kelly Craft said to the UN the US stands ready to engage without preconditions in serious negotiations with Iran to prevent further endangerment of international peace and escalation.

This will be the first trial in several graft cases against Sarkozy, making him the first ex-president of France in at least 60 years to enter the dock for corruption.

Addressing the House of Commons, UK PM Boris Johnson issued a warning to Iran to refrain from further reckless and dangerous attacks as he confirmed that non-essential British personnel had been moved from the region.

It is reported that about 2.3 million people from the Philippines are working in the Middle East as domestic helpers, construction workers, engineers and nurses.

Scott Morrison made the plea for international visitor support on Wednesday as he visited Kangaroo Island, a tourist rich destination, that has been hit twice in recent weeks by fierce fires.

Juan Guaido, who was re-elected on Sunday to a second one-year term as head of the opposition-held congress, had pledged to preside over Tuesday's opening session after security forces blocked him from the building.

A Kenyan national police statement said the attackers targeted a telecommunications mast in eastern Garissa county near the border with Somalia, where the al-Qaida-linked extremist group is based.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said US President Donald Trump had displayed a lack of respect for international law by threatening Iran's cultural sites.