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North Korea may soon conduct its first underwaterlaunched ballistic missile test in about a year, a South Korean military official said Wednesday, amid longstalled nuclear talks between the North and the United States.

Applied DNA Sciences plans to initiate clinical trial of one of its five LineaDNA vaccine candidates for veterinary use to prevent coronavirus infections in domestic cats, the diagnostic test maker said on Wednesday.

September 16 is celebrated as International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer or World Ozone Day. Ozone is the essential gaseous layer around our planet which maintains the balance in nature.

Irish government ministers dropped plans to restrict their movements on Tuesday evening after health minister Stephen Donnelly tested negative for COVID19, a government spokeswoman said.

Israeli aircraft attacked targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, witnesses said, and sirens warning of rocket fire from the Palestinian territory sounded in southern Israel.

The backup safety driver behind the wheel of a selfdriving Uber Technologies test vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, in 2018 was charged with negligent homicide, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel, wounding two people, on Tuesday at the same time as Israel and two Gulf Arab states signed normalisation agreements at the White House in Washington.

The Israeli leader signed bilateral accords at the White House with UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan and Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani, and all three leaders signed a joint declaration along with Trump.

The city government of Louisville, Kentucky, is expected to announce on Tuesday a financial settlement with the family of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman fatally shot by police in March, the Courier Journal reported.

Delegations from Yemen's warring parties will meet on Thursday in Switzerland to discuss a United Nationsbacked agreement on prisoner releases, a Houthi spokesman and a U.N. source said on Tuesday.

Thailand's prime minister pledged on Tuesday to ensure that a major protest this weekend against his government would be peaceful but said he was concerned that outsiders might try to instigate unrest.

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny shared a photograph from a Berlin hospital on Tuesday, sitting up in bed and surrounded by his family, and said he could now breathe independently following his suspected poisoning last month.

A Taiwan conservation group said on Tuesday it had been kicked out of a Britishbased wild bird protection body after it had been asked and refused to sign a document stating it did not advocate for the Chineseclaimed island's independence.

Democrat Joe Biden on Tuesday will make his first campaign visit of the year to Florida, where opinion polls show a tight race against President Donald Trump amid signs of lagging support for Biden among the battleground state's crucial Hispanic voters.

Two dozen Hong Kong prodemocracy activists appeared in court on Tuesday to hear charges of participating in an illegal assembly over a June 4 vigil commemorating the crackdown on protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Neighbouring Lithuania violated international law when it recognised opposition politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya as Belarusian leader on Sept. 10, Belarus' upper house of parliament said in a statement on Tuesday.