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Taiwan's parliament passed a bill in May that endorsed same-sex marriage, after years of heated debate over marriage equality that has divided the self-ruled and democratic island.

The government said that the passport department has started receiving applications for women aged 21 and above to issue or renew passports and to travel outside the kingdom without permission.

Speaking to the media after the bilateral discussions, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that he had a fruitful interaction with Foreign Minister his counterpart A K Abdul Momen.

The INF had banned all land-based missiles, conventional and nuclear in an effort to abolish a class of nuclear arms being deployed by the United States and the then-Soviet Union that left Europe the most threatened.

Conservative leader Andrew Scheer's renewed call for a probe into possible obstruction of justice, detailed in a letter to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), comes only two months before national elections.

It was the calmest weekend protest since the latest demonstrations against perceived creeping Beijing influence in the former British colony began.

Four Twitter handles were suspended for allegedly spreading anti-India propaganda on Jammu and Kashmir following a request by security agencies.

Laszlo Magas, who organised the Pan-European picnic in 1989, said it was 'shocking and wonderful to see those people with their kids on their shoulders, approaching the border'.

The report said up to 85% of lorries using the main channel crossings 'may not be ready' for French customs, meaning disruption at ports would potentially last up to three months before the flow of traffic improves.

Lord Jitesh Gadhia and General David Petraeus have written a joint column for 'The Daily Telegraph', to urge the two nuclear powers to open dialogue to address their differences.

The government and residents of the Republic of the Marshall Islands have objected to the company's beer named Bikini Atoll, an area of the island chain that remains uninhabitable.

Demonstrators say they are fighting the erosion of the "one country, two systems" arrangement that enshrined some autonomy for Hong Kong since China took it back from Britain in 1997.

Greenland has been essential to US defense since World War II when it was a base for monitoring Nazi ships and submarines passing through the 'Arctic Avenue,' the sea gateway to the north Atlantic.

Members of China's paramilitary People's Armed Police marched and practiced crowd control tactics at a sports complex in Shenzhen. The police could be seen conducting drills in military fatigues, using shields, poles and other riot-control gear.

Kim Jong Un has expressed 'great satisfaction' over his military's 'mysterious and amazing success rates' and vowed to build up 'invincible military capabilities no one dare provoke.'

Greenland is a self-governing region of Denmark, which colonized the 772,000 square-mile (two-million square kilometer) island in the 18th century, and is home to nearly 57,000 people, most of whom belong to the indigenous Inuit community.