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Rouhani has had a tough time defending the trademark achievement of his presidency and his opponents have accused him of not making good on his promises. Iran's hardline candidates continue to toe that line. Every Iranian president since 1981 has won re-election. Opposition and reformist figures are backing Rouhani, and his recent fiery campaign speeches have led to a surge of public interest.

Our wealthiest banks with be hit with a special 0.015 per cent levy on liabilities to raise $6.2 billion over four years. "That would be really excessive", he told Sky News noting there was already a lot of concern about the conduct of banks.

Tillerson asked countries to "suspend or downgrade diplomatic relations with North Korea" last Friday at a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting. He emphasized that the only US goal is to pressure North Korea to "denuclearize", and that Washington was not seeking "regime change" or the accelerated reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

Jaitley went on to say that it was no longer safe to deal with excessive cash, tax evaded money. There are one lakh persons under the high risk bracket wherein the department has initiated enforcement action through verification, search, survey and scrutiny.

Support for the Greens nearly halved to 6.4 percent, while the liberal Free Democratic Party gained four percentage points to 12.6 percent. What was clear is that the ruling SPD-Greens coalition fell far short of a majority as the Greens won about 6 percent, down from 11.3 percent in 2012.

Just before the end of his tenure, former US President Barack Obama renewed a six-month waiver pushing a decision on whether to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem . New US ambassador to Israel David Friedman visits the Western Wall after arriving in the Jewish state on Monday. "Israel is convinced that this statement contradicts President Trump's policies".

The decision gives the Pentagon clearance to arm the entire Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF , a USA -backed coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters dominated by the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), making gains against ISIS in northern Syria .

The apparent chink in the NHS's defences led to criticism of the Government, with the Liberal Democrats demanding an inquiry. Problems with cyber security in NHS organisations were said to have been highlighted previous year by Dame Fiona Caldicott, the national data guardian, who warned issues were given insufficient priority and health bodies persisted in using obsolete computer systems.

Israel annexed east Jerusalem in 1967 and claims the entire city as its undivided capital. Klein elaborated that in recent meetings at the White House he told Trump aides, Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka, that "moving the embassy would make the Palestinians and the Arab world understand that Trump is serious and doing what's right and that the jig is up".

Macron has promised that half of those candidates will be new to elected politics, as he was before his victory. It will release its list of 577 candidates on Thursday. Jean-Luc Melenchon, who missed out on the presidential runoff by 620,000 votes, said his France Unbowed movement has failed to reach an accord with the Communist Party and will present its own full slate of candidates in the parliamentary election.

Soon after the report was published, the administration contended that it was false and that Trump did not reveal sources of intelligence, methods of gathering intelligence or military operations. After Mr Trump reportedly disclosed the information in a manner described as spontaneous, officials immediately called the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA), both of which have agreements with a number of allied intelligence services around the world, and ...