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The moves came in retaliation for the coordinated expulsion of Russian diplomats by Britain and its allies over a nerve agent attack against former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury on March 4.

The Intoxicating Liquor Act, passed in 1927, prohibited sales in shops and bars on three days a year -- Good Friday, Christmas Day and St Patrick's Day, although the latter was exempted in 1960.

South Korean trade officials braved snowstorms, ate instant noodles to save time and spent weeks hotel-hopping in Washington as they raced to overcome major trade hurdles with their U.S. ally ahead of high-stakes nuclear discussions with North Korea.

A virtual private network (VPN) can tunnel through the country's sophisticated barrier of online filters to access the global internet.

The United States has more than 2,000 military personnel in eastern Syria, working with local militia groups to defeat the extremist Islamic State group while trying to keep out of Syria's broader civil war.

Nicolas Sarkozy, who is embroiled in several criminal investigations, denies any wrongdoing and has vowed to have all cases dismissed. His lawyers said they would appeal Thursday's decision to try him.

Win Myint, who a week ago resigned from his post as the lower house speaker, was chosen by both chambers of the parliament where Suu Kyi's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party holds a comfortable majority.

Kim's shock visit to Beijing is the first time he is known to have set foot outside the impoverished North since he assumed the leadership.

South Korean envoys who met Kim in Pyongyang early this month quoted Kim as saying he was "committed to denuclearisation", and that he "expressed his eagerness to meet U.S. President Donald Trump as soon as possible".

Having wooed Putin for the better part of two years, the 71-year-old US president on Monday expelled 60 alleged Russian spies.

Contrary to its usual practice, CBS has not released excerpts of the interview, which will air today at 7:00 pm local time on the network's flagship "60 Minutes" programme.

China insists it has no hostile intent, but its sabre-rattling in the busy South China Sea waterway, and around Taiwan, has touched a nerve in the region and in Washington.

There was a previously recorded mass stranding in 1996, when 320 long-finned pilot whales stranded themselves just north of Hamelin Bay and died.

Luke Manimaran Degarajoo, 43, had touched the 18-year old inappropriately during a physiotherapy session massage at his clinic about a year ago. He was sentenced on Wednesday.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy told magistrates who put him under formal investigation that accusations that he got illicit Libyan funding for his 2007 election campaign were lies.

Sarkozy, a combative one-term president, who served from 2007-2012, was charged with corruption, illegal campaign financing and concealment of Libyan public money.