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The child's disappearance made national news, sparking massive searches, with 1,500 volunteers scouring woods and fields in suburban Minneapolis in the US.

OPEC and its allies decided last month to cut their overall output by 1.2 million bpd starting in January, to boost prices hit by a supply glut and fears demand could plummet.

Human rights activists had expressed concerns that Australia's government -- which takes a hard line on immigration -- may revoke her tourist visa.

The attack occurred late Sunday at a bar in a low-income section relatively far from the beachside tourist resort zone.

On October 26, President Sirisena, 67, sacked Wickeremesinghe as Prime Minister and replaced him with ex-strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa, triggering the never-seen-before political and constitutional impasse in the island nation.

Surf Life Saving Queensland said over 2,600 people received treatment at the weekend. Bluebottle stings are painful but typically not life-threatening.

Tesla's Shanghai venture comes as US companies face pressure from Donald Trump to keep manufacturing jobs at home, and as Beijing and Washington persist with a trade spat that has seen both sides levy tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of products...

Brexit's influence has spread to books by established authors like Ali Smith and Jonathan Coe as well as those of debut novelists, pushing writers to examine often overlooked parts of the country and social themes.

While some social media users apologised for the protesters' behaviour, others were more tongue-in-cheek.

Sergeant Ronald Harris of the Torrance Police Department said all seven victims were male. Three were pronounced dead at the scene, with two others taken to hospital.

Sharif, 69, has been serving a seven-year jail term in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills graft case.

Pompeo said the US has continuously cautioned that ballistic missile and SLV launches by Iran have a destabilising effect on the region and beyond.

The rebels accuse the military, known in Myanmar as the Tatmadaw, of deploying heavy artillery against villagers.

The islands, hugely popular with holiday-makers especially during the peak Christmas and New Year season, have emptied out since Wednesday as tourists packed onto ferries bound for the southern Thai mainland, with swimming banned and boats set to suspend...

China ended its decades-old one-child policy in 2016 and permitted couples to have two children as the population of elderly rose with declining numbers of young people.

The tariffs on many US products like apples, almonds, walnuts, chickpeas and lentils were announced last year in retaliation to President Donald Trump's decision to impose heavy tariffs on imported steel and aluminium items.