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Video footage of the Independence Day rally posted on social media showed scores of demonstrators dressed in black - many in paramilitary-style clothing and all wearing face scarves - quietly parading several abreast down a sidewalk at the park.

Ghosn, once a leading light of the global car industry, was arrested in Japan in late 2018 and charged with underreporting his salary and using company funds for personal purposes, charges he denies.

Earlier in the day, Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli met President Bhandari and requested her to prorogue the budget session. Prior to this, a Cabinet meeting recommended to the president to prorogue the sessions of both lower and upper houses, the paper sai...

The Central Election Commission said 78% of votes counted across the world's largest country had supported changing the constitution. Just over 21% had voted against, it said.

More than half of new US cases each day come from Arizona, California, Florida and Texas, home to 30% of the country's population.

News website Axios reported that the tweet was removed after a copyright complaint from the New York Times, which owns the rights to the photo.

In December a Saudi court sentenced five people to death and three to jail for Khashoggi's killing after a largely secretive trial. Khashoggi's family later said they forgave his murderers, paving the way for their formal reprieve.

Chris Patten spoke after Hong Kong police fired tear gas and water cannon at thousands of protesters who had gathered for an annual rally to mark the anniversary of the former British colony's handover to China in 1997, in defiance of new security legisla...

The cuts are to be implemented by the summer of 2021, Airbus said in a statement, and follow a drop of nearly 40 percent of the commercial aviation business in recent months.

Biden's stand is in stark contrast with President Donald Trump who has already held large campaign gatherings.

Beijing must also allow the United Nations rights chief meaningful access to its western Xinjiang province, said the states -- including Britain, France, Germany and Japan -- in a rare oral rebuke of China at the UN Human Rights Council.

The French company - the world's biggest manufacturer of beauty products, including brands Maybelline and Garnier - said last week it would change its labelling after a similar move by Unilever.

DeAngelo's arrest in 2018 capped more than 40 years of investigation in a case that authorities said was finally solved by comparing crime-scene DNA samples to information on genealogy websites consumers use to explore their ancestry.

Tests showed that any immunity humans gain from exposure to seasonal flu does not provide protection from G4.

Tariff increases, import bans, stricter customs procedures, export duties and other such measures introduced during the review period affected 2.8 per cent of G20 trade, WTO said.

Anti-abortion advocates had hoped that the Supreme Court, with its 5-4 conservative majority, would be willing to permit abortion restrictions like those being pursued by Louisiana and other conservative states.