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The attacks, which hit state-controlled oil giant Saudi Aramco's facilities in the country's east at Khurais and the world's largest oil processing facility at Abqaiq, were claimed by Yemen's Huthi rebels.

With Modi-Trump meeting on Tuesday, the two leaders would be meeting for the fourth time in as many months. This meeting is expected to set the tone of bilateral relationship between the two countries over the next few years.

The US President had fired John Bolton last week, revealing deep divisions between the two on major foreign policy issues including nuclear talks with Pyongyang.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared a state of emergency for 13 counties after tropical Depression Imelda slammed the state on Thursday.

In one instance, police shone green lasers into the eyes of detainees, Amnesty said, employing a tactic previously used by many protesters against police.

Iran Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif earlier accused Mike Pompeo of being part of a so-called "B-team", which Tehran says includes Saudi Arabia's crown prince and is trying to dupe Trump into opting for war.

India is currently imposing a 70 per cent tariff on US apples 50 per cent Most Favoured Nation tariff in addition to the recently imposed 20 percent retaliatory tariff, a media statement said.

The Taliban took responsibility for the attack, which destroyed part of the hospital in Qalat, the capital of southern Zabul province, and left a fleet of ambulances broken and battered.

Police recovered the bodies of the boys on Tuesday in Kasur district, some 50 kms from Lahore. The incident enraged the residents, who blocked roads in Chunian and burned tyres.

Saudi Defence Ministry said it will hold a news conference on Wednesday to present "material evidence and Iranian weapons proving the Iranian regime's involvement in the terrorist attack".

With neither Netanyahu's Likud nor former military chief Benny Gantz's centrist Blue and White party forecast to secure a majority in the 120-seat parliament without his support, Lieberman has emerged as the election's true winner.

Dongyuan Li, 41, admitted in her plea agreement that between 2013 and March 2015, her company -- called 'You Win USA Vacation Services '-- assisted mainly Chinese foreign nationals who were pregnant to travel to the US and give birth.

The lawsuit says Snowden published his book, 'Permanent Record', which went on sale on Tuesday, without submitting it to the US agencies first for pre-publication review.

The International Life Sciences Institute, a US non-profit with an innocuous sounding name, has been quietly infiltrating government health and nutrition bodies around the world.

The story also gave President Donald Trump and his allies fresh ammunition in his campaign against the media, where the Times was already a favourite target.

While Trump will address Indian-Americans, along with PM Modi, at the 'Howdy Modi!' event in Houston on September 22, the American president did not say when or where will he be meeting PM Imran Khan.