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Johnson thanked townsfolk for looking after tourists, including 200 Britons, who were stranded in the town after the quake and for teaching him a Maori greeting called a hongi, in which people press noses together.

Der Spiegel magazine reported on Saturday that four German women who joined Islamic State in recent years, including a 16-year-old girl from the small town of Pulsnitz near Dresden, are being held in an Iraqi prison and receiving consular assistance.

Several German nationals are among those being held and Berlin has warned its citizens that their safety cannot be guaranteed in Turkey and that consular access is not assured in case of arrest.

52 percent voters say meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and the Russian lawyer was inappropriate, compared to 23 percent who say the meeting was appropriate.

Palestinian youths hurled stones and petrol bombs as the army used a bulldozer to close off the 19-year-old attacker's West Bank village and prepare his house for probable demolition.

As President Donald Trump's frontman at televised White House news briefings, Sean Spicer achieved a certain fame for defending the commander-in-chief at all costs through a variety of crises that have beset Trump's young presidency.

Sanders shares her father's ability to strip-back topics and bring them to life with a pithy down-at-home turn of phrase. She's equally likely to disarm questioners by challenging their premise, by lobbing a stinging barb or talk about one of her children...

The Pentagon will not make military reimbursements to Pakistan for fiscal year 2016 after US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told Congress that Islamabad had not taken sufficient action against the Haqqani network.

Local officials said 100 people were injured on the Greek holiday island of Kos, a destination favoured by British holidaymakers.

The Saudi king ordered Mohammed bin Nayef to step aside in favour of the king's favourite son, Mohammed bin Salman. The reason: an addiction to painkilling drugs was clouding Nayef's judgment.

It was the latest in a series of healthcare setbacks for Republicans, despite their control of both chambers of Congress and the White House.

In New York to attend a UN forum on development, Mohammad Javad Zarif said he was open to speak with Rex Tillerson as Washington carries out a review of the 2015 agreement reached with world powers on curbing Iran's nuclear program.

The quake struck at 11:34 a.m. on Tuesday (2334 GMT on Monday) some 125 miles (200 km) from the city of Nikolskoye on Bering island off the Kamchatka Peninsula.

The administration asked the justices to overturn the decision of a US district judge in Hawaii, which limited the scope of the administration's temporary ban on refugees and travelers from six Muslim-majority countries

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, a Republican, plans to send a letter on Thursday to Donald Trump Jr. to ask him to testify before his committee in a public session, CNN reported.

French President Emmanuel Macron said he “respected” Trump’s decision and it would not impact discussions on other topics.