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The Marine One helicopter returned the 72-year-old head of state to the White House from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in the Washington suburb of Bethesda after a full four hours of prodding, poking and testing.

Among major global economies, the report said, the "most substantial movement can be seen from India, which has surged almost 20 per cent" and climbed eight places in the IP Index rankings from 44th to 36th.

Average global surface temperatures have reached 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degree Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times in 2018 and the outlook is for more sizzling heat approaching levels that most governments view as dangerous for the Earth.

The President also said that the US and its international partners freed more than five million civilians from the grip of the terrorist group and that virtually all of the territory previously held by ISIS in Syria and Iraq has been liberated.

In September, a senior policeman and an Indian national were arrested for the alleged assassination plot targeting Sirisena and former defence minister Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.

The president already has some powers to impose tariffs without congressional approval, primarily by citing national security as a reason. He had used those to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

According to the Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) wildlife department, Harlan paid a whopping USD 110,000 for hunting the rare wildlife species in the region under a conservation programme.

"We wanted to avoid having, in three or four days, a visitor who, just as in London hides a button... and the shredding continues," said Henning Schaper, director of Frieder Burda museum in Baden-Baden.

The pope arrived in Abu Dhabi on Sunday night for a three-day visit, during which he will lead a historical open-air mass for some 135,000 Catholics.

To mark World Cancer Day 2019, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) issued a statement in which it "unequivocally confirms the efficacy and safety of HPV vaccination".

The candidate who amasses the majority of delegates will be nominated at the party’s convention in the summer and will likely face Republican President Donald Trump in November's general election.

Referring to the possibility of an emergency declaration that could allow him to use funds that Congress has approved for other purposes, Trump said, 'I think there's a good chance that we'll have to do that.'

There were no immediate reports of major damage.

Nasr, with a strike range of about 70-km, is a high precision, shoot and scoot weapon system with the ability of in-flight maneuverability, according to the Pakistan Army. The missile was already tested last week.

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The four-week moving average of initial claims, considered a better measure of labour market trends as it irons out week-to-week volatility, rose from 5,000 to 220,250 last week.