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Earlier on Monday, Trump had lashed out at Khan, calling him a 'stone-cold loser' after the mayor criticised the British government for inviting the US president for a state visit.

China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Tuesday issued the travel alert for Chinese tourists travelling to the United States which could hit the American travel industry badly.

Duterte has a wavering record when it comes to gay rights. During his campaign for president in 2016 he voiced support for same sex marriage, but later backtracked.

North Korean publications on Monday showed Kim Yong Chol sitting near a clapping Kim Jong Un and other top officials during a musical performance by the wives of Korean People's Army officers.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said that Pompeo's emphasis on maintaining maximum pressure on Iran reflects the continuation of the same faulty behaviour that must be corrected.

Writing in the Guardian's Observer supplement on Sunday, Khan condemned the red-carpet treatment being afforded to Trump who, with his wife and First lady Melania, will be a guest of Queen Elizabeth during their three-day stay.

Seven South Korean citizens survived the crash and seven died, while 19 South Koreans and two Hungarians have been officially listed as missing for three days, all of them feared dead amid hostile conditions on the Danube river.

In life Khomeini was recognised by his followers as the "Imam", leader of the Shiite community, and decades after his death he remains enshrined in the Iranian constitution as "the great source of imitation".

China on Saturday also started collecting higher retaliatory tariffs on much of a $60 billion target list of US goods in a growing trade war between the two countries.

India is the biggest beneficiary of the GSP, which allows preferential duty-free imports of up to $5.6 billion from the South Asian nation.

Posing as Khalid Bin Al-Saud, 48-year-old Anthony Gignac lived in a condo on Miami's posh Fisher Island, drove a Ferrari with a forged diplomatic license plate and eagerly courted investors and gift-givers.

The announcement was made a day before Beijing is due to increase tariffs on USD 60 billion in US goods, capping a week marked by rising Chinese threats of retaliation after President Donald Trump blacklisted Huawei.

The incident took place shortly after noon on the Ellipse — south of the president's residence — near 15th Street and Constitution Avenue, the Secret Service said on Twitter.

Five of the seven members of the senior leadership team at Amnesty's international secretariat are leaving the organisation after a review by Naidoo, a South Africa-born human rights activist of Indian descent.

Felix Klein, the Germany's commissioner on anti-Semitism sparked uproar when he said in an interview that he could not 'advise Jews to wear the kippa everywhere all the time in Germany.'

Nepal issued a record 381 Everest permits this season, and several hundred of the summiteers are not properly trained, take poor decisions and 'put their own life in risk', Ameesha Chauhan said.