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A former comedian who won a landslide election victory in April despite having no political experience, Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been unwillingly drawn into a political battle between Trump and his Democratic opponents.

North Korea also accused the US of being behind the European condemnation of its weapons tests after having 'begged for working-level North Korea-US talks' in Sweden.

The US president's request that Zelensky probe the activities of Joe Biden's son Hunter has sparked an impeachment probe in the US, with the Democrats looking into whether Trump used a delayed aid package as leverage.

The power cut knocked out traffic signals, forced school closures and shut businesses and government offices across northern and central California, according to Brian Ferguson, a spokesman for the state Office of Emergency Services.

Urging residents in the area to stay indoors, the police added that the suspected perpetrators fled in a car.

The statement by China Overseas Ports Holding Company came as Pakistan government stamped a 23-year income tax holiday and exemptions on sales tax and customs duties for the setting up of the Gwadar Free Zone.

Hong Kong pro-democracy activists have put up Lennon Walls, covered with colourful sticky notes, posters and slogans, across the city, and they have been set up in Taiwan too -- mostly at university campuses.

US Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun held talks with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts and 'reaffirmed the importance of continued coordination...on North Korea to achieve complete denuclearization'.

India's communication blackout in Kashmir is having a devastating impact on the lives and welfare of everyday Kashmiris, the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee said in a tweet on Monday.

Notably, according to the study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, redesigning molecules originally developed to treat the skin disease psoriasis could lead to an effective new drug against malaria.

According to researchers, while the clinical manifestations of the disease are well understood the mechanisms by which the virus infects human cells and subsequently multiply need more studies.

The cool reception from Brussels to Johnson's proposal indicates just how far apart the two sides are on the first departure of a sovereign state from the EU, which was forged from Europe's ruins after World War Two.

What to do with the enormous amount of water, which grows by around 150 tonnes a day, is a thorny question, with controversy surrounding a long-standing proposal to discharge it into the sea, after extensive decontamination.

Security forces opened up with a barrage of gunfire and reporters said they saw several people hit by bullets, some in the head and the stomach.

Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani have offered no evidence for their assertions of corruption against former Vice President Biden, a leading contender for the Democratic Party nomination to run against Trump.

Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against the owner of the resort where the gunman opened fire into an outdoor concert on October 1, 2017. The company also owns the venue where 58 people died and hundreds were injured.