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Eastern Ghouta - described as " hell on earth " by the United Nations chief - has been under a Russian-backed siege since 18 February, which has claimed over 600 lives and injured thousands . Almost 600 people have been killed and more than 2,000 injured since the assault began three weeks ago, said the UN. "This collective punishment of civilians is simply unacceptable", Moumtzis said in a statement.

President Donald Trump. The Saudi Crown Prince is scheduled to tour national projects, including the first phase of King Salman University in Sinai, the tourist city in the Giza Pyramids area and various health initiatives. During his three-day visit to Egypt, Salman is expected to visit the main Coptic cathedral in Cairo, the first by a senior Saudi official, according to sources in the Egyptian capital.

A firing incident took place near an Army camp in the Pahnoo area of Shopian this evening, a police official said. "Body of the militant was recovered along with a weapon", he said, adding, "Three OGWs accompanying the militant in a vehicle were also found dead".

The ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier begins on March 4, and the Windies will play their opening match against the United Arab Emirates , the side which almost beat them in the second warm-up match on Thursday. We can't just go out and blast and dominate against these attacks. Currently, West Indies is on the No-9 position of ODI rankings, and Young Afganistan is one step away from them by standing No-10 Position on ODI Rankings.

In late June 2017, he began posting material on photo-sharing social media site Instagram, promoting jihad and supporting Al-Qaeda. He was found with a gutting knife and a hammer, as well as a "martyrdom letter" that read: "I am a soldier of the Islamic State".

Donald Trump's comedic chops were on full display at Saturday's annual Gridiron Club dinner, which brings together members of the media and the President for a night of laughs. "I was very excited to receive this invitation and ruin your evening in person", Trump said. Just as he had during the campaign, Trump routinely bashed the media, often calling it "fake news", but also, at one point in a February, 2017, tweet, the "enemy of the American people".

He added Iran will not let interference in its affairs. The rebellion against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad wouldn't require Iran to deploy medium range missiles to the country, especially given that the Russian Air Force is also involved on their behalf.

Mrs Kramp-Karrenbauer, the moderate former minister-president of the Saarland, would launch a programme of renewal in the CDU. Representatives of CSU will head three more ministers. Seemingly devoid of vanity and indifferent to the trappings of power, she lives in a Berlin flat with her media-shy scientist husband Joachim Sauer, shops in a local supermarket and spends holidays hiking in the Alps.

Bannister etched his name into athletics history on May 6, 1954 , when he completed the mile distance in a time of three minutes, 59.4 seconds in Oxford, England. "The world's best runners had been attempting the four-minute barrier for a quarter of a century". But Bannister's achievement has continued to inspire athletics enthusiasts, with the shoes he wore to break the four-minute barrier selling for a record.

Evgeny Kuznetsov , Nicklas Backstrom , John Carlson and Jakub Vrana also scored for Washington, which hardly looked like a team that had recently lost four of six to shrink its large lead atop the Metropolitan Division. Andersen stopped 20 shots. Rather than assign blame to Andersen, Babcock spoke more generally about mistakes his others players made against an opponent that eliminated the Maple Leafs in the first round of the playoffs last season.

The company's stock had a trading volume of 38,082,882 shares, compared to its average volume of 45,370,000. Bank of America restated their outperform rating on shares of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) in a report issued on Thursday, February 8th, Marketbeat Ratings reports.

The much-anticipated choice by Mayawati Ji. She did indicate that any decision on a tie-up would be taken during the Lok Sabha polls and would depend on whether the BSP is offered a "respectable number of seats". On a related note, bypolls in both Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha constituencies will be held on March 11 , and the counting for the same will be conducted on March 14.

Brayman says none of the shots appear to have been directed toward the White House. The gunman has been identified by the Secret service and the Metropolitan Police Department, but his name has not been disclosed citing security reasons. The man has since died; no one else was injured in the incident, the Secret Service spokesperson said. Reporters inside the White House tweeted that they had been told to take shelter.

Crews had been "taking advantage of the warm weather: there, training for water and search-and-rescue missions". "I heard the lady screaming, 'Somebody killed me!" Turns out what sounded like a bomb was actually an 80-pound inflatable raft crashing through the roof of her home in the 14000 block of Northeast 10th Court.

The actor delivered a scathing speech mocking Trump's ambivalent response to the Parkland shootings and stance on gun control. The original tweet read " Alex Baldwin, whose dieing mediocre career was saved by his impersonation of me on SNL , now says playing DJT was agony for him", Trump wrote.

Many in the agricultural industry fear that retaliatory measures from these countries could hurt US exports of meat and grains. "The EU has been a close security ally of the USA for decades". The U.S. accounted for about 14 per cent of Stelco's sales in the last six months of 2017, though the American auto industry is a major growth target for Chief Executive Officer Alan Kestenbaum.

A delegation of three Congress leaders - Kamal Nath, Ahmed Patel and CP Joshi - met the governor at 7 pm last night. "I am confident that the regional parties and the BJP will form the government in Meghalaya together". Meghalaya threw up a fractured mandate yesterday with the ruling Congress emerging as the largest party, marginally ahead of its rival, the NPP, an ally of the BJP at the Centre and in Manipur.

Bhubaneswar: BJD leaders on Saturday ridiculed BJP president Amit Shah's statement and claimed that the saffron party's "dream" of forming the government Odisha will never be fulfilled even though it has won in Tripura and other north eastern states.

The elections in 59 seats in the 60-member Assembly were held on February 18. The BJP ousted Manik Sarkar-led CPI (M) government from Tripura after its 25- year-long rule, winning 43 out of the total 60 seats. Its ally NDPP won 11 seats and was leading in four. On the other hand, NPP leader Conrad Sangma has expressed confidence that his party will form the government in Meghalaya .

Jeffcoat was sacked over the email as well as NAIA rule violations regarding player eligibility, Slabach said, adding that he could not go into detail about those violations because the investigation was ongoing. Slabach clarified that the "additional factor is an NAIA rule violation". "I didnt know what to think to be honest at all", Bell said. "My intention wasn't trying to get this guy fired", Bell said.

Instead, the mystery of whether Porter will ever play for Missouri again will have to continue until, at least, the team's first game in the SEC Tournament on Thursday. Porter has missed all but two minutes of this season after injuring his back in the Tigers' opener in early November. Taking it slow might be hard to stomach with so few games left in the season, but if the Tigers are going to make a run, they need to buy as much time for Porter to get in shape as possible.

Pacer Advisors Inc. now owns 115,441 shares of the oil and gas company's stock worth $9,464,000 after buying an additional 11,439 shares in the last quarter. Bellwether Investment Group LLC now owns 3,355 shares of the oil and gas company's stock worth $271,000 after buying an additional 44 shares during the period.

Trump's announcement came as President Xi Jinping's top economic aide, Liu He, met USA officials at the White House to discuss the fraught economic relationship. Zhang said repealing term limits was necessary to preserve unified leadership, since Xi's other two titles - party leader and military chief - don't face similar restrictions.

Liu Yonghao said he hopes the world's top two economies avoid a trade war, but "we will be able to find ways" to cope if soybeans are drawn into the spat. Referring to the ongoing talks, Zhang said for the past couple of days, China and the United States had consultations over the trade issues and agreed to hold the talks in Beijing to deepen the bilateral cooperation.

North Korea has slammed Trump's unilateral sanctions against it, but it said it was open to talks with the United States during senior North Korean officials' visit to South Korea for the Olympics last month. If agreed, the 33 ships proposed by the U.S., 19 of which are North Korean vessels, would be subjected to a global port entry ban. It's a high stakes trip, with strengthening worldwide resolve to denuclearize North Korea high on the agenda.

United Nations rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein issued a warning on March 2 about the re-emergence of chemical attacks in Ghouta as well as the fierce Syrian government bombing campaign that he said has targeted civilian areas and hospitals and killed more than 600 people since last month.

Karti has been taken to Byculla jail and will be brought face-to-face with Indrani and Peter Mukerjea, who are now lodged in jail awaiting trial for allegedly killing Sheena Bora. "He ( P. Chidambaram ) is likely to be called for questioning in connection with the case to unravel the quid pro quo", a senior CBI officer said , requesting anonymity.

Yet the mood among the party's rank-and-file is hard to predict after the Social Democrats slumped to their worst postwar election result in September, triggering a youthful grass-roots movement to take the party into opposition. Spiegel weekly noted that the poor figures have "terrified many" in the SPD and could spur them to go for the lesser evil of joining forces with Merkel again.

The Congress basically did not stand any chance in Nagaland as the party has been out of power in the state for 15 years. He thanked the people of Nagaland for supporting BJP and its allies. Any promise, therefore, of rapid material advancement pays political dividends. # People from North-East always felt that Delhi is far away from them, but with the "Doner Ministry" in place, BJP has brought Delhi to their doorsteps.

The avalanche hit five people Friday, leaving one hospitalized with a serious lower body injury, the Placer County Sheriff's Office said. Three people were partially buried after an avalanche at Mammoth Mountain, according to the resort's official Twitter page.

An adjustment to a billboard along Interstate 15 in Las Vegas changed the advertisement for a shooting range into a political protest piece overnight. INDECLINE isn't anti-gun. Some of the members of this collective own guns. A worker takes a photo of a billboard poster for the Battlefield Vegas shooting range after it was vandalized on March 1, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

KELLY: But again, you say that you are going to use these weapons, these nuclear-powered weapons, if Russian Federation or its allies come under attack. " Russia still has the greatest nuclear potential in the world, but nobody listened to us", Mr Putin said. Ballistic missiles are launched into the atmosphere and then come down toward their target, whereas cruise missiles fly low to the ground.

Le Drian plans to pay a visit to Iran on Monday to hold talks with senior Iranian authorities. The Iranian military's spokesman has commented on US President Donald Trump's threat to scrap the 2015 Iran Nuclear on the pretext of Tehran developing its missile program.

Suh, who joined the spy agency in 1980, played a role in behind-the-scenes negotiations with Pyongyang to arrange two inter-Korean summits in June 2000 and October 2007. South Korea will likely send a ministerial-level official to the upcoming talks to reciprocate for the high-level North Korean delegation sent to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the sources said.

The ship's captain and 34 crew are being questioned, Silitonga said. Agung Setya, director of economic and special crimes at Indonesia's criminal investigation bureau, told Metro TV, "We have been inspecting the crew since yesterday and now we are taking action, since we have received approval from the court".