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The US on Wednesday then circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution proposing an arms embargo and targeted sanctions against South Sudan if Kiir refuses to ink the peace pact.

Plans to bolster flood protection, drawn up years ago, never addressed the wild card of climate change, which most experts now acknowledge will lift sea levels and trigger more intense storms.

At least one woman and two children were among those killed in the attack, said Najib Danish of the interior ministry. Scores of others were wounded.

The officials affirmed that they have also come across of the reports of strong petroleum odor in that area.

It added: “Best estimates show e-cigarettes are 95% less harmful to your health than normal cigarettes, and when supported by a smoking cessation service, help most smokers to quit tobacco altogether”.

The suspect, believed to be a man of Moroccan origin who recently lived in Spain and Belgium, was reportedly armed with a slew of weapons: A Kalashnikov assault weapon, nine chargers, a Luger automatic pistol, a 9mm charger and a box cutter.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Spanish authorities had advised French intelligence about him because he belongs to the “radical Islamist movement”.

The committee decided on Saturday night to start preparations for convening the Palestinian National Council as part of Abbas’s efforts to bring new faces to the leadership.

Britain and Iran will reopen their respective embassies in the coming days, an Iranian official said, four years after protesters angry over nuclear sanctions stormed the UK mission in Tehran.

On Monday, the UN’s humanitarian chief fiercely condemned attacks against civilians in Syria at a press conference in Damascus.

Heston, who threw a no-hitter against the New York Mets on June9, has had trouble going deep into games in recent weeks. The most no-hitters thrown in the modern era in one season is seven, last achieved in 2012.

This summer, bishops in Iowa, Illinois and Ohio have held news conferences on the encyclical, urging political leaders to take up the pope’s call for bold leadership and pledging to reduce carbon emissions or water and power usage in their own dioceses.

The bombing has been more or less continuous, with multiple ceasefire agreements and so-called humanitarian pauses breached nearly as soon as they were announced. With only 16 per cent of the agency’s funding appeal of $182.6 million met so far, Yemen is one of the most...

“More than 65 civilians in the province of Taiz, Yemen have been killed in Saudi-led air strikes today, including 17 people from one family”.

Mr Rayhan’s family believed after he failed to come home from the market that he was among that number, and began mourning him that day.