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Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declared to the assembly that global cooperation is the world's best hope and "multilateralism is under fire precisely when we need it most". O'Donnell also asked Pompeo about Russian meddling in the USA election, and he said he's confident the US midterm elections in November will be safe.

Pompeo will visit Pyongyang again next month to prepare for a second summit. The five remaining parties to the 2015 accord - France, Britain, Germany, China and Russian Federation - agreed during a meeting in NY late Monday to set up a payment system to preserve business ties with Iran despite USA sanctions.

The Chinese government is not going to allow a U.S. Navy warship to dock in Hong Kong. Further inflaming tensions, the US State Department said Monday it was set to approve a $330 million sale of military aviation parts to the self-governing island of Taiwan .

The New York Times reported that on Monday morning, when it appeared Rosenstein was headed out the door at the Justice Department , President Donald Trump called Matt Whitaker, the chief of staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions . And while many of Trump's allies have urged caution, fearing a trap, moments ago Axios reported that Rosenstein has made a decision to preempt that step by verbally resigning to Chief of Staff John Kelly in anticipation of being fired by President Trump, ...

A YouGov survey of more than 1,000 Labour members for The Observer found 86% support a referendum on the outcome of Brexit talks, against just 8% who oppose it. However, if an election was not possible, a second referendum should be on the table. "All the polling that we have seen is that the country is still pretty split down the middle".

US President Donald Trump said he wants a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine and will release his plan within months. We are winning on every level. But Trump followed up his accusations with a series of tweets accusing China's government of paying for newspaper space in the U.S. state of Iowa to push its message.

George Hartmann, a spokesman for Republicans on the Judiciary Committee , said the hearing is still going forward on Thursday as scheduled. Ford is expected to testify Thursday about her allegations that Kavanaugh held her down, tried to remove her clothes and covered her mouth at a drunken high school party in the 1980s.

More than 30 professors cancelled classes on Monday to allow students to take part in the nationwide Walkout Monday to support the two women who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault and misconduct. Earlier on Friday, Collins said she was "appalled" by President Donald Trump's tweet in which he said that "if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents".

The court also held that educational institutions and bodies like the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE) and University Grants Commission (UGC), and schools and colleges, can not ask for Aadhaar details of potential candidates. He had some strong words for the Executive for the passage of the Aadhaar Act as a Money Bill , terming it a " fraud on the Constitution " and a subterfuge.

But Beijing also said it was willing to restart trade negotiations with the United States if the talks are "based on mutual respect and equality", Xinhua said, citing a white paper on the dispute published by China's State Council. All diplomatic efforts ended in vain. U.S. activated tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods that have scuttled their bilateral talks. Still, the US remains open to talks, Lindsay Walters, deputy White House press secretary, said in an emailed statement.

Deputy Governor in Khuzestan province, Ali Hosein Hoseinzadeh, said that two gunmen were killed by security forces and two others were injured, reported Al-Jazeera. At least 18 people were killed and more than 50 wounded in the 2017 attack that saw gunmen carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles and explosives storm the parliament complex where a legislative session had been in progress, starting an hours-long siege.