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Many people living at the foot of Mount Sugar Loaf were asleep when the mountainside collapsed, burying dozens of houses, including two-storey buildings, witnesses said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the violence, which continued into the early hours Monday. Gunfire could be heard almost seven hours after the attack began.

"I think we're not closer to war than a week ago, but we are closer to war than we were a decade ago," said national security adviser Lt General H R McMaster.

Arcelor Mittal South Africa (AMSA), born out of Mittal's buyout of state steel manufacturer Iscor more than a decade ago after the steel magnate first rescued it from total collapse, last made a profit seven years ago.

U.S. authorities are investigating the outbreak of violence, which has put new pressure on the Trump administration to take an unequivocal stand against that segment of his political base. Some rightists have claimed allegiance to Trump, a Republican.

Jim Mattis said, “The tragedy of war is well-enough known it doesn’t need another characterization beyond the fact that it would be catastrophic”.

Ivanka Trump will lead the US delegation to India this fall, supporting women's entrepreneurship globally," Trump said in a tweet on Friday.

Trump assailed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Twitter posts on Wednesday and Thursday. He was responding to a speech in which McConnell said Trump had "excessive expectations" of Congress on matters like healthcare and did not understand how lo...

"This happened by mistake but the incident made us concerned as there are intelligence reports that terrorists could launch attacks to free militant inmates from this jail."

The exchange came less than two weeks after Senate rejection of the GOP effort to scuttle President Barack Obama's health care law.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson also said Russia and China support for UN sanctions shows the international community expects them to help North Korea accept realities.

Hundreds took to the streets in Valencia to support the uprising, said resident Carolina Herrera, who like other witnesses reported shots through the night.

Violence has raged across much of Congo this year, killing hundreds and displacing millions amid a political crisis caused by President Joseph Kabila's refusal to step down when his constitutional mandate expired in December.

The August 8 election is seen as a crucial test of Kenya's progress since a disputed poll a decade ago led to two months of politically motivated ethnic clashes, which along with a police crackdown on protests left more than 1,100 dead and 600,000 displac...

Vladimir Putin, 64, is renowned for his strong-man publicity stunts, which have contributed to his sky-high popularity ratings.

Extreme heat in Italy, and parts of France and Spain and the Balkans, has led to dozens of wildfires, damaged crops and fuelled power and water consumption.