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A federal jury in Peoria, Illinois found Brendt Christensen, 29, guilty last month of the abduction and murder of Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

London has been scrambling to stem the damage caused by the release of confidential telegrams from envoy Kim Darroch, which described Trump as "inept" and his White House as "uniquely dysfunctional."

Emergency workers and security forces were being dispatched early Saturday to the epicenter of the shallow earthquake in a remote and sparsely populated area around 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Los Angeles, where it was also felt.

A meteorologist said the abnormally warm weather is being caused by a giant ridge of high pressure sitting right over the city.

Meanwhile, 18 Afghan security personnel were killed in separate Taliban attacks on Friday, one each in western Farah and Herat provinces.

The conciliatory gesture, announced in a letter from Macron's top aide Alexis Kohler to the French Presidential Press Association, is another sign of Macron's shifting communication strategy, which early in his tenure aimed to bypass journalists.

In an attempt to pay back his former clients, Kale Jagdish Purushottam, 43, forged signatures to siphon off USD 10 million from his present clients.

The police said they had also arrested six people linked to incidents the day before, and eight others suspected of being involved in the illegal disclosure online of police officers' private information.

The latest deal is the 22nd bailout package since Pakistan became member of the IMF in 1950.

The industry, which before the April attacks had expected a record number of foreign holidaymakers in 2019 on the back of rave reviews in international travel magazines, saw arrivals plummet in May.

US and China reached a truce at the recently held G20 summit in Japan but Roubini is still pessimistic that the countries can work out a long-term trade agreement anytime soon.

The seven-member jury deliberated for about nine hours before delivering its verdict in the court-martial of Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, a decorated career combat veteran whose case had drawn the interest of US President Donald Trump.

Christine Lagarde, who has been nominated for the position of the president of the European Central Bank, decided to temporarily relinquish her duties as the IMF managing director.

In this year's July 4 celebrations, the US President plans to speak at a military 'Salute to America' that will feature military bands and flyovers from the US Navy's Blue Angels and Air Force One, the modified Boeing 747 that transports US presidents.

Relatives of Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican employee who never returned after heading out to a music lesson in Rome, have long demanded that the Vatican to look into her disappearance and reveal all official documentation about the case.

Shanmugam Sampathkumar, 33, Murugesan Saravanan, 42, and 49-year-old Arumugam Chelladurai are Indian nationals. The fourth employee - Pang Wei Koon, 46, is from Malaysia.