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The CPEC is the flagship project of the multi-billion dollar Belt and Road Initiative, a pet project of President Xi Jinping aimed at enhancing China's influence around the world through China-funded infrastructure projects.

Pompeo, who met Kim during a short trip to Pyongyang on Sunday, said the inspectors would visit a missile engine test facility and the Punggye-ri nuclear testing site as soon as the two sides agree on logistics.

The zoo was allegedly modeled after the Hacienda Napoles -- the vast estate of the late Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar – by a violent Honduran cartel known as the Cachiros, which was sanctioned by the United States in 2013.

Some nominees ended up being rejected, others passed by the narrowest of margins and some would-be justices never made it to the Senate floor at all for consideration.

"China is the single or sole supplier for a number of specialty chemicals used in munitions and missiles," states the 146-page report that President Donald Trump commissioned more than a year ago.

Unemployment fell to a 48-year-low of 3.7 percent last month from 3.9 percent, an unusually large drop, according to the Labor Department's closely-watched monthly jobs report.

The Turkish-Arab Media Association (TAM) organised a rally in front of the consulate for Khashoggi, a former government adviser who has been critical of some policies of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Riyadh's intervention in the war in Yemen.

Asia Bibi was given capital punishment by a court in 2010 for passing derogatory remarks against Prophet Mohammed during an argument with a Muslim woman.

Palu city on Sulawesi island has been left in ruins after it was hit by a powerful quake and a wall of water which razed whole neighbourhoods to the ground, with the official death toll now 1,571.

The White House said on Thursday as it reiterated its warning to all purchaser of Iranian oil to bring it down to zero by November 4 or face imminent sanctions from the United States.

The Florence County Emergency Management Department said on Twitter that an "active shooting situation" reported in the area was "over and the suspect is in custody."

The three Indian-born Gupta brothers built a business empire during Zuma's nine-year tenure only to see it disintegrate as the scandal-plagued leader was forced out by his own party in February.

Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla had sought to keep a popular beach locked behind a gate as his exclusive property.

Recounting the story beside her at a small roadside stall in the quake-hit city, the 38-year-old civil servant struggled to keep his emotions in check, tears welling up behind his glasses.

A cultural team from the Indian Embassy in Beijing sung Gandhi's most popular bhajans and some of his popular quotes were recited by the Chinese school children.

The mass prison break happened after the powerful tremor sparked a wall of water that devastated the small city of Palu Friday.