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The surprise announcement by US President Donald Trump this week that he would withdraw roughly 2,000 troops has felled a pillar of American policy in the Middle East.

The uniforms use chips to monitor the location of students and can record their exit and entry into school, according to the tech firm behind the tracking

The shutdown crisis could be one of the final acts of the House GOP majority before relinquishing control to Democrats in January.

In one cable, the EU's diplomatic mission in Moscow describes the controversial summit in Helsinki in July between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin as "successful (at least for Putin)".

Pushing the government to the brink of a partial shutdown, the White House is insisting that Congress provide USD 5 billion to build a wall along the US-Mexico border despite lawmakers resistance from both parties.

The 552-carat stone, found in a mine in Canada's Northwest Territories near the Arctic Circle, is nearly three times the size of the previous record holder, an 187-carat gem called the Foxfire, Dominion Diamond Mines said in a statement Saturday.

The North's stinging response came after the United States said on Monday it had introduced sanctions on three North Korean officials, including a top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, for alleged human rights abuses.

"We haven't received any new information or outcome of the investigation from the Saudi side," Mevlut Cavusoglu said on the sidelines of a conference in Turkish ally Qatar.

Erdogan also slammed Riyadh for its changing account of how Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and prominent critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.

A seven-year-old Guatemalan girl died in American custody after being detained by US border police in the state of New Mexico, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.

During the seven hour, 45 minute spacewalk, veteran cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergei Prokopyev struggled, but eventually succeeded, in cutting away the insulation covering the hole and taking out a sample to analyse.

US President Donald Trump has made securing the country's southern border with Mexico a focal point of his presidency, with plans to beef up border security and create a wall as key components.

Whatever that decision, the losing side has up to 14 days within which to approach the High Court and seek leave to appeal, a spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said.

Nick Ayers was reportedly 'skeptical' of taking the position because of the rocky tenures of Kelly and his predecessor Reince Priebus.

The murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has damaged Riyadh's international reputation and Western countries including the US, France and Canada have placed sanctions on nearly 20 Saudi nationals.

A Dutch choreographer and nine Brazilian women who remained anonymous accused Joao Teixeira de Faria, 76, better known as "Joao de Deus" ("Joao of God") of making them masturbate him or perform fellatio.