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Acosta had negotiated a secret plea deal a decade ago with financier Epstein, who is accused of sexually abusing young girls.

China's trade surplus with the United States widened by 3 per cent to USD 29.9 billion, potentially giving its critics ammunition to demand Washington take a hard line with Beijing.

The weather system is expected to reach hurricane strength Friday or early Saturday when it nears Louisiana's coast, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), and has already caused major flooding.

Pelosi's comments came after the United Nations rights agency said last week that both India and Pakistan had failed to improve the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.

Some of the birds were found in distress and taken to two veterinarians, but they were unable to be saved.

Journalist Ezra Levant of the Rebel media, a Canadian far-right political website, interrupted and verbally assaulted the minister alleging that his Twitter account was suspended over complaints from the Pakistan government.

US President Donald Trump, however, retreated on Thursday from adding a contentious question on citizenship to the 2020 census.

Maulana Sufi Muhammad will be buried at his village Lal qila Maidan of Lower Dir district in northwest Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Indian IT professionals, most of whom are highly skilled and come to the US mainly on the H-1B work visas, are the worst sufferers of the current immigration system.

Zardari visited Dubai 51 times and spent Rs 100 million, while he spent Rs 320 million on 17 visits to the UK

The deal was earlier reported by the Wall Street Journal, which said the SPAC, Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp, will invest about $800 million for a 49% stake in Virgin Galactic.

London has been scrambling to stem the damage caused by the release of confidential telegrams from envoy Kim Darroch, which described Trump as "inept" and his White House as "uniquely dysfunctional."

South American dictators in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay set up Operation Condor in the 1970s as a coordinated effort to track down their opponents across borders and eliminate them.

Mitsotakis' New Democracy party won an outright majority with 158 seats in the 300-seat legislature. His pledges for more investments, well-paid jobs and fewer taxes won over Greeks worn out by years of EU-prescribed austerity.

The 10 per cent customs duty will attract other taxes, like the cost, insurance and freight tax and other charges, further pushing up the price of imported books, according to bookseller in Kathmandu.

The Dalai Lama turned 84 on Saturday and his followers in Nepal had hoped to celebrate the occasion in the capital, Kathmandu, but the communist government rejected their request.