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The crisis between some of the world's richest countries erupted on June 5, 2017 as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt suddenly cut all ties with Doha, accusing it of supporting terrorism and Iran.

The party, known by its German acronym AfD, became the third largest in Germany's parliament after the 2017 election. It is also the largest opposition party.

Speaking at a high-profile security summit in Singapore, the Pentagon chief also said the US military continues to support diplomats pushing for the "complete, verifiable and irreversible" denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.

Lawson was adamant that Brexit would provide benefits to Britain — but insisted that it depends on how Prime Minister Theresa May manages the transition.

Ivanka Trump presented herself as a champion of equal pay for equal work, vowing to "fight for this right alongside of him," only to support Trump's rollback of a key equal pay initiative once he was president.

Redress Scheme will target people sexually abused as children while in the care of a Commonwealth institution and follows a nationwide inquiry that found widespread institutionalised child sexual abuse in Australia.

Missouri Governor Eric Greitens's troubles had mushroomed over revelations of a 2015 extra-marital affair and charges, which he vehemently disputed, that he attempted to blackmail his mistress into silence with a compromising semi-nude photo.

Arkady Babchenko, 41, died of his wounds in an ambulance after his wife found him covered in his blood in their home, police said.

After stabbing the officers, the man seized one of their handguns and shot both women dead before walking down the street and shooting dead a 22-year-old man who was sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car.

Critics were quick to point to a "zero tolerance" policy announced earlier this month by Attorney General Jeff Sessions that authorizes border security agents to take away the children of people who enter the United States unlawfully.

The Shacklewell Lane Mosque in Dalston, east London, has decided to accept bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in a bid to widen its donor base and cut down on currency conversion fees, mosque leaders said.

The Korean leaders' second summit in a month saw bear hugs and broad smiles, but their quickly arranged meeting on Saturday appears to highlight a sense of urgency on both sides of the world's most heavily armed border.

Alan Bean, who was the fourth man to walk on the moon, died on Saturday in Houston following a short illness.

Voters in the once deeply Catholic nation will be asked if they wish to scrap a prohibition that was enshrined in the constitution by referendum 35 year ago, and partly lifted in 2013 only for cases where the mother's life is in danger.

The Manhattan district attorney's office and New York police have investigated Weinstein for months, coming under growing pressure from the Time's Up movement to bring the fallen producer to justice.

Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves have dropped from $18.1 billion in April last year to $10.8 billion in May this year.