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The storm was now being called a 'very intense post-tropical cyclone,' but the Canadian Hurricane Centre warned that it was still packing winds equivalent to those of a Category 2 hurricane.

South Korea's government said at least eight people were being treated for injuries, including an elderly couple from Boryeong who were injured after steel scaffolding collapsed over their home.

Johnson was criticised earlier this week for describing Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn as a 'great big girl's blouse' - a coward - for refusing to support his call for a snap election.

The most powerful hurricane on record to hit the Bahamas swept through the islands earlier this week, leveling some neighborhoods, swallowing others with storm surge, and causing what one official described as a staggering number of deaths.

This week's spike in violence comes after US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad said he and the insurgents had reached a deal "in principle" that would begin a US troop pullout in exchange for Taliban counter-terror guarantees.

When asked Trump denied knowing anything, while continuing to maintain that the initial storm predictions included the possibility that Dorian would make landfall in the southern state.

Jo Johnson said that in recent weeks he was torn between family loyalty and the national interest.

The mother had a licensed .38 Special revolver and was home alone when she heard noise coming from the kitchen or hallway, police chief John Norman told the station.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said talks with European powers were moving forward, raising hopes of at least a pause in a diplomatic confrontation between Iran and the West that has stoked already heightened tensions across the region.

Mattis has previously commanded troops in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, Iraq and had headed up Central Command.

The move against the Conservative Party grandee marks one of the most bizarre turns in the three-year Brexit crisis that has gripped a country once touted as a confident pillar of Western economic and political stability.

The Readymade Sustainability Council will replace the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh to ensure compliance with work-place monitoring in the industry.

US and Europe have been caught up in a series of feuds over trade, Brexit, ties with Iran and climate change that Europe blames on the go-it-alone diplomacy of President Donald Trump.

Corbyn has long said he wants an election to oust the governing Conservatives, but some in his party fear Johnson will use a threatened new poll to take Britain out of the European Union without a deal by by-passing parliament.

Hong Kongers once were endlessly curious about life across the border and, tugged by bonds of family, culture and in some case politics, saw their city as part of a bigger Chinese story.

The world's two biggest economies have been embroiled in a bruising year-long trade war which escalated further on Sunday when Washington moved ahead with fresh levy hikes which Beijing had promised to match.