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Supporters of the ban insisted in campaign literature that "it is integral to our culture and our values to be able to look each other in the eyes without hiding".

The demonstrations went on peacefully, unlike a wave of unauthorized pension protests earlier this month organized by opposition leader Alexei Navalny that led to the detention of over 1,000 people across Russia.

The US State Department in its report said that though Pakistan continued military operations to eradicate terrorist safe havens in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, their impact on all terrorist groups was uneven.

The meetings come as Macron and other European leaders try to salvage a landmark 2015 accord to curb Tehran's nuclear programme, which Trump pulled the US out of last May.

Brett Kavanaugh's nomination plunged into chaos after Christine Blasey Ford, 51, told 'The Washington Post' that she was subjected to a sexual assault by Kavanaugh, 53, in high school in the early 1980s.

The accusation comes one day after China promised to take "countermeasures" against Trump's plan to impose tariffs on an additional USD 200 billion worth Chinese imports.

In her book, "Full Disclosure," Daniels has given details of her affair with the US President a decade ago.

The decision will hurt as many as 9.4 million domestic users 3.6 million of them falling in the lowest income slab and another 2.63 million in the second lowest income group.

The rankings showed Sweden claimed the top spot, overtaking Denmark, according to the Center for Global Development, a research institution focused on poverty reduction.

Moon has stressed that the South Korean government's role is "to find the point of agreement between the US and North Korea so that the two countries can accelerate conversation and speed up denuclearisation".

While the Hubble Space Telescope has already detected some of the most distant galaxies known, their numbers are small, making it hard for astronomers to determine if they represent the universe at large.

The boat was believed to be carrying nearly 150 passengers off the coast of Sulawesi province on Friday when the blaze started.

The allegation came just one week before the Senate Judiciary Committee is to vote on his nomination.

Installation took place from March to August last year, during Haley's tenure as ambassador.

More than a million coastal residents have been ordered to leave their homes ahead of the storm's projected arrival on Thursday.

A fresh assessment by the State Bank of Pakistan and the Finance Ministry showed that Pakistan needed $11.7 billion to service its external debt in current fiscal year 2018-19.