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Two scientists, Ri Hong Sop and Hong Sung Mu, have become increasingly high profile as Pyongyang's weapons programmes have advanced at a rapid pace under Kim Jong Un's leadership.

Hajj draws people from around the world to Saudi Arabia each year. The crowds, squeezed shoulder to shoulder in prayer five times a day, fill the city of Mecca and surrounding areas to perform a number of physically demanding and intricate rites.

Gagandeep Singh, a third year student who was also working as a taxi driver, was allegedly attacked by the 19- year-old passenger he had picked up at Spokane International Airport in Washington State.

The newspaper said the aim is to create a more consistent posture to counter China's maritime claims, rather than a more ad hoc approach favored during Barack Obama's administration.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Trump will announce on Tuesday whether he will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, programme, which protects nearly 800,000 young men and women from deportation.

Washington and Tokyo called for an emergency UN Security Council meeting, set to convene at 2100 GMT to discuss the crisis.

On Monday's aggressive missile launch, likely the longest ever from North Korea over a close US ally, sends a clear message of defiance, as Washington and Seoul conduct annual military drills.

Japan-U.S. trade talks “have dealt with frictions in the past, starting from the negotiations on textile in the 1960s, but this time we approached (the United States), calling for cooperation but not frictions,” Aso said.

Republican People's Party chief Kemal Kilicdaroglu condemned the crackdown as a "civilian coup" and said that the jailing of Enis Berberoglu "became the last straw."

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said the jihadist group had recaptured large swathes of territory from government forces in the fighting on Thursday.

"I think that's a ridiculous and outrageous claim and doesn't dignify a response from this podium," the White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters at her news conference.

Since Britain's June 2016 vote to exit the European Union, the annual difference between those moving to and leaving the country has fallen steadily from a peak of nearly 350,000, according to the Office for National Statistics.

The biennial Summer Universiade, dubbed the "Little Olympics," is the largest ever sporting event Taipei hosts but it has also highlighted tensions with Beijing and the island's struggle for international recognition.

A manhunt is underway for the driver of the van that ploughed through crowds of tourists in Barcelona's most popular street in broad daylight, killing 13.

Donald Trump has directed the United States Trade Representative to examine China's policies, practices, and actions with regard to the forced transfers of American technology and the theft of American intellectual property.

Mainstream historians say up to 200,000 women, mostly from Korea but also other parts of Asia including China, were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II.