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From August 31, citizens will be able to add an "observation" to their passports stating their sex should be "identified as 'X', indicating it is unspecified," the government said in a statement on Thursday.

Almost all Norco residents are standing by their candidate, even as he faces a storm of bipartisan criticism over his response to a violent white supremacist rally.

"It's not myth. It's not science. It's culture," said Aveni, a professor of physics and sociology at Colgate University. A sampling of eclipse lore and history.

The mistake, which makes the red-and-white Indonesian flag resemble Poland's, has caused anger in Indonesia where "shameonyoumalaysia" has become the most popular hashtag on Twitter.

Zimbabwe blocked flights by South Africa’s government-owned airline amid tensions over allegations that Zimbabwe’s first lady Grace Mugabe assaulted a young model at a Johannesburg hotel.

From Trump Tower in New York, where he is spending a few days, the Republican leader retweeted a message from a man who called him a "fascist." It took him about 20 minutes to delete it.

Earlier Monday, gunmen attacked two neighboring U.N. camps in Douentza in the Mopti region of central Mali, killing a Malian soldier and a U.N. peacekeeper and lightly wounding another peacekeeper.

The hammers which have struck the 13.7 tonne bell every hour for most of the last 157 years will be locked and disconnected from the clock, although the bongs will still sound for important events such as New Year's Eve celebrations.

US President Donald Trump said he would like Russia and the United States, China and Pakistan, and many other countries that have nuclear weapons, get rid of them.

Widely known as Pakistan's Mother Teresa, Pfau was eulogised by the prime minister and army chief for her contributions towards freeing the country of a contagious disease that can cause disfigurement.

Pyongyang said it was "carefully examining" a plan to strike Guam, an island of around 162,000 in the western Pacific.

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) said the availability of staff overall suffered its biggest fall last month in a year and a half.

Flooding has crippled four provinces, damaging water systems and farms, where rice and fruit are grown, with about 200 homes destroyed and 400 more affected.

Del Ponte, a 70-year-old Swiss national who came to prominence investigating war crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, has been part of the four-member UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria since September 2012.

Sessions had been the public target of the president's anger recently because he had recused himself from a probe into allegations that Trump's aides coordinated with Russia to tilt last year's election in his favor.

Martin Shkreli, best known for jacking up the price of an HIV drug to $750 a pill, was found guilty on three out of eight counts in the securities fraud trial.