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Sedley also said that, “since refuge from persecution and war is a universal human right, this means recognizing that our Government’s present offer to take no more than 20,000 Syrian refugees over five years is wholly inadequate”.

Hargreaves Lansdown economist Ben Brettell commented on the drop saying that it relieved pressure on the Bank of England to “lift interest rates”.

The Dutch Safety Board report on the crash of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine in 2014 will serve as a cornerstone for additional investigation into the incident, US National Security Council Spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement on Tuesday.

Per NBC’s Kristen Welker, Biden was unable to reach a decision about his presidential plans after spending another weekend with his family, according to a source familiar with Biden’s thinking. He has given no indication that he will do so.

Only the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency eventually reported the conviction comment, and later in the day state TV broadcast Ejehi’s comment that Rezaian has been convicted.

That information was presented to the Dutch investigators, but was not taken into account, he claimed.

Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy, who was released from prison in Egypt last month after a presidential pardon, has returned to Canada, according to his Twitter feed.

Myanmar’s election commission held a meeting on Tuesday morning with major political parties to discuss a postponement of an election scheduled for November 8 due to flooding, a government official and a politician present at the meeting told Reuters.

A spokesman for the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF), Col. Paddy Ankunda, said Kampala expects to have withdrawn all of its troops in South Sudan within the next two weeks.

Timothy Lee Hurst was convicted of murdering his manager inside a Popeye’s restaurant. and the jury recommended a death sentence by a 7-5 vote.

But Saturday was more than just one dark day for U.S. Soccer. I didn’t see how I could afford a 2,800-mile drive from Florida, where we both live, but my friend was persuasive.

The Philippines on Tuesday welcomed Washington’s plan to send ships near China’s man-made but disputed islands in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), noting that it is within the concept of worldwide law.

EA has announced the game’s Ultimate Edition and season pass. That cycle continued one year later with its sequel, Star Wars: Battlefront II. However, of late, they seem to be trying again and their latest offering in the form of the much-awaited Star Wars Battlefront might...

Of the 19 patients, 17 are being treated at hospitals in Pune.

The Boeing 777 was en route to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam when it was downed in the skies over eastern Ukraine on July 17 a year ago.