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In a shaky video, a small, bright explosion is seen in the night sky, with city lights in the distance.

Pyotr Verzilov, who has both Canadian and Russian citizenship, was admitted to hospital following a court hearing on Tuesday and later transferred to a Moscow trauma centre where staff described his condition as "serious".

Data is processed by a programme called Sentry that estimates the plane's trajectory and sends a warning, triggering Facebook and Telegram messages, tweets and loud sirens throughout cities in opposition-held Syria.

A move by Manafort to cooperate could be a blow to Trump, while an outright guilty plea with no cooperation would resolve a cloud over the president ahead of congressional elections in less than two months.

Discussions have gained momentum within the U.S. government over possible economic penalties in response to reports of mass detentions of ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in China.

The press freedom group said the military had established "lines of control" to pressure the media and journalists who pushed back or were overly critical were attacked, threatened or arrested.

A senior official of the Punjab government also confirmed to PTI that the parole period would be extended till the last rituals of Kulsoom are performed in Lahore.

President Vladimir Putin is expected to attend the games after hosting an economic forum in Russia's far eastern city Vladivostok where his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping is one of the prominent guests.

The European Court of Auditors (ECA), said pollution's toll on health in Bulgaria and other eastern European countries was even worse than in Asian giants China and India.

The petition also seeks action against Nawaz Sharif under treason charges for claiming that those involved in the deadly 2008 Mumbai terror attack belonged to Pakistan.

Nearly every able-bodied South Korean man is required to enrol by age 28 in the military, for a minimum of 21 months.

Tensions ramped up between the two countries after US President Donald Trump pulled out of a landmark nuclear deal with Iran in May.

The ICC defended itself, noting it has the support of 123 member states and that even the United Nations Security Council has found it valuable, asking it in 2005 to investigate genocide in Darfur, Sudan.

The projects concerned are part of the multi-billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) plan - the most ambitious part of the BRI, which seeks to connect Asia and Europe along the ancient silk road.

Police said as many as 18,500 protesters took the streets in Paris joining a global campaign dubbed "Rise for climate" and a French one launched in support of former environment minister Nicolas Hulot who quit on August 28.

Media speculation in the recent days suggested that Sirisena may opt to have a presidential poll after January next year, at the end of 4 years of his 5 year term. He is constitutionally empowered to hold the presidential poll after a lapse of 4 years.