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Tillerson's statement went on to describe some of those provocations, including support for terrorism, interference in Iraq, backing the Assad regime in Syria, support for the Houthis in Yemen, harassment of US navy ships in the Persian Gulf, and cyber-attacks against USA interests and allies.

Trump did not publicly mention the case when he met with Sisi, but a senior White House official said ahead of the meeting that the case would be addressed. Ms Hijazi, a U.S. citizen with dual nationality, and her Egyptian husband, Mohamed Hassanein, set up the Belady Foundation in 2013 to aid street children.

The Syrian government has moved its aircraft from a base bombed by the US two weeks ago to a Russian base in the coastal city of Latakia, ABC News reported. However it is nearly "mathematically impossible" that the Russian-Iranian draft will be adopted Thursday by the executive council as it would need 28 votes in favour out of the 41 members.

France, which has suffered from a wave of bloodshed over the past two years killing more than 230 people, has long feared an attack on the presidential election , the first round of which takes place on Sunday. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility. However previous attacks that have taken place soon before elections , including the November 2015 attacks in Paris ahead of regional polls and the shooting in a Jewish school before the 2012 presidentials, did not appear to ...

The UN said sarin had been used in that attack, which killed hundreds of people in the Ghouta agricultural belt to the west and east of the capital. The strike aimed to destroy airplanes as well as prevent take-offs and landings. Russian Federation has cautioned that the incident may have been a false flag operation meant to provoke a United States attack against Syrian government forces.

As the search intensified, it emerged that Cheurfi had a history of violent crime and was convicted of shooting at police in 2001. The shooting has not officially been declared a terrorist act but anti-terrorist forces are leading the investigation, French President François Hollande said.

Just days before France heads to the polls in the first-round of a fiercely contested presidential election, the attack has many pundits speculating as to whether it will give the far-right a final boost ahead of the vote. Rival François Fillon calls for unity and says France is "at war" against terror. The men were said to be French nationals who had been radicalised and were believed to have links to IS.

French officials say the two police officers injured on the Champs-Elysees by a gunman who killed one of their colleagues are both out of danger. Speaking Friday on RTL radio, Macron said: "What our attackers want is death, symbolism, to sow panic (and) to disturb a democratic process, which is the presidential election".

Such a contingency could include the risk of an armed conflict breaking out as tensions on the peninsula have risen in the wake of multiple North Korean missile tests. North Korea has accelerated its nuclear and missile tests in recent years, despite worldwide condemnation and United Nations sanctions. North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un waves at a performance on Sunday.

Issam al-Jibouri, a displaced resident who went by boat to western Mosul to take supplies to needy relatives, said: "We urge more efforts to reconstruct the bridges or bring larger boats". The advance has hardly moved for more than a month, though, as the militants are holding out in the densely populated Old City in western Mosul, where tanks and heavy vehicles are not able to operate because of its narrow streets.

Ambassador Marciano Paynor, who serves as the Asean 2017 National Organising Council director-general for operations, said Trump had "indicated" his desire to attend the summit after his phone conversation with President Rodrigo Duterte last December.