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Diplomats and security sources in the Comoros and the West are concerned that some Iranians acquired the passports to protect their interests as sanctions crimped Iran's ability to conduct international business.

BAE's Global Combat Ship, to be officially known as the Hunter class, beat off competition from Italian company Fincantieri and Spain's Navantia SA.

The US State Department in its annual Trafficking in Persons Report for 2018 urged India to increase prosecutions and convictions for all forms of trafficking, including forced and bonded labour, and of officials allegedly complicit in it.

Trump will meet Putin after attending a July 11-12 summit of NATO leaders and making a visit to Britain. The summit's date will give Putin a chance to attend the July 15 closing ceremony of the soccer World Cup which his country is hosting.

Polling stations were decorated with posters of pin-up football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo and election officials in one location even dressed as ghosts to boost the turnout.

After failing in two previous runs at the presidency, Lopez Obrador's popularity has grown in tandem with Mexicans anger at traditional parties' failure to subdue record levels of violence and end corruption.

While much of the attention has focused on the ban's aim at Muslim-majority nations, the largest contingent of non-immigrant visas actually went to Venezuela.

The pilot could be heard on one of the videos telling passengers the man had left the plane and was trying to get back onboard. The pilot later said the man had not been a passenger.

More than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims were forced to flee Rakhine state after a military crackdown that the United Nations has said amounts to 'ethnic cleansing'.

The Trump administration ramps up the pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who recently won a second term in an election condemned as illegitimate by the US and other countries.

In an interview, Sharif had acknowledged that militant organisations are active in Pakistan and questioned the policy to allow the 'non-state actors' to cross the border and 'kill' people in Mumbai.

The immigration crisis has triggered new political tension, and Trump lashed out at a Democratic congresswoman who had urged Americans to confront members of his inner circle in public places.

PM Narendra Modi called plastic a "menace to humanity" in a speech earlier this month and pledged to eliminate single-use plastic in India by 2022, Maharastra is cracking down companies immediately.

Dennis Hof, the 71-year-old star of HBO's ‘Cathouse’ series and Republican nominee for Nevada's 36th District in the State Assembly, is fashioning himself as the "Trump from Pahrump”.

"We have chosen two paths: the first and most important one is reconciliation. The second path is to attack terrorists if they don't surrender and refuse to make peace," Assad said.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end his 'Zero Tolerance' policy of separating immigrant children from their families on the U.S.- Mexico border, after images of youngsters in cages sparked outrage at home and abroad.