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Asked about Trump's remarks, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said, 'Our position is very clear'.

As European leaders sought to arrange a tension-reducing encounter between the Iranian and US presidents, Rouhani dismissed what he saw a photo-op for the media-hungry Trump.

Trump, at a signing ceremony with Abe on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, said the deal's first phase would cover $40 billion worth of digital trade between the world's first and third-largest economies.

The first day of campaigning saw the Taliban target Ghani's running-mate Amrullah Saleh in an attack that killed 20 people in July.

The engine-run boat, carrying 30 passengers, capsized around 7 pm on Tuesday in Kaliakotha Haor of the district's Derai upazila due to strong winds.

During a late-night, 20-minute address that drew laughs and baffled looks from delegates, Boris Johnson struck a light tone on a serious subject as he warned of technology's capacity to control citizens.

Authorities say rescuers managed to free the pilot hours after Tuesday's crash. They rappelled to the man and lowered him to the ground with the help of a pruning bucket.

The Conservatives and Liberals had been neck and neck at the start of the campaign. But polls, taken after several images emerged of Trudeau in blackface makeup, put the Tories three to five points ahead of the Liberals.

Britain's highest court had ruled on Tuesday that Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks in the crucial countdown to the country's Brexit deadline was illegal.

The case had marked a rare confrontation between the prime minister, the courts and Parliament over their rights and responsibilities.

The Civil Aviation Authority regulator, which is managing the UK's biggest repatriation since World War II after Thomas Cook's dramatic bankruptcy, said in a statement that it flew back 14,700 of the 150,000 stranded Britons on Monday.

Britain sends more tourists to Mexico's Caribbean coast than any other European country, and more than any country in the world except the United States and Canada. Hence the collapse of the British travel firm has left the country reeling.

The September 14 attacks on the two giant plants caused raging fires and damage that halved the crude output of the world's top oil exporter, by shutting down 5.7 million barrels per day of production.

The company Oxitec experimented by releasing nonbiting-male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which bore a gene that should doom most of their offspring before adulthood.

Around 250 people including children joined the solemn two-hour climb up the side of Pizol mountain in northeastern Switzerland to the foot of the rapidly melting ice formation.

Protesters called for a boycott of businesses in the Chinese-ruled city seen as pro-Beijing and made a paper chain of receipts from those stores, which were then hung across the mall.