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US President Donald Trump has insisted that his hand-picked Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome H Powell, is intentionally acting against him.

The message included an address and a request for a response from the person who finds it. Reporters from the state-owned Russian media network, Russia-1, tracked down the original writer, Capt. Anatoliy Botsanenko.

Gilbraltar's government said it could not seek a court order to detain the ship because US sanctions against Iran were not applicable in the European Union.

The explosion came just as the US and the Taliban are widely expected to sign off on a deal that would see American troops begin to depart Afghanistan in return for security assurances from the insurgents.

The passenger manifest listed 50 but rescuers and locals recovered 61 survivors while seven people, including two children aged two and four, were found dead.

Donald Trump had looked out in the crowd at the Thursday night rally and saw Frank Dawson shaking his fist as protesters were being led out. Dawson was wearing a 'Trump 2020' shirt but the president thought he was one of the protesters.

Fiji Pm Bainimaram accused Australia PM Morrison of heavy-handed tactics after the Pacific Island Forum in Tuvalu with pro-coal Canberra sharply at odds with island nations facing the existential threat of climate change.

People at various US airports posted videos on social media sites of lengthy lines at processing checkpoints and several airports warned of extensive delays.

The issue of internal displacement is being compounded by natural disasters including a historic drought, which last year forced about 245,000 people to move.

China also submitted a formal request for such a meeting but Poland has to consult and take into account preferences of other Council members before deciding on time and date for the meeting.

The dead wife's family had appealed for the Islamic law of retribution to be applied an "eye for an eye" form of punishment, but her brother said the family had decided to grant him a reprieve.

The youth, identified as Vishwanath Akuthota of Albany, was also ordered to pay USD 58,471 as restitution charge, United States Attorney Grant C Jaquith said.

Around two dozen officers found their police van blocked by a few hundred hardline protesters as it followed the ambulance. The officers jumped out of the vehicle to clear a path, using pepper spray on the crowds and detaining at least two people.

The apology from the jewellery brand came a day after several other luxury retailers apologised for mistakes in their labelling of the semi-autonomous cities of Hong Kong and Macau as well as the self-ruled island of Taiwan.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said violence by protesters had pushed Hong Kong into 'a state of panic and chaos'.

The August 4 attack, which ended when police shot and killed the gunman, 24-year-old Connor Betts, was one of three-high profile mass shootings over three weeks that stunned the United States and stoked its long-running debate on gun rights.