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Britain said it was "concerned" by reports that North Korea conducted a missile test on Sunday, which the US Defence Department said blew up nearly immediately. The administration's emphasis, the officials said, will be on increasing pressure on North Korea with the help of China, North Korea's dominant trade partner.

Pence delivered President Trump's strong resolve to closely cooperate with South Korea, Japan and China to seek a peaceful solution to the North's nuclear issue. He leveled sharp criticism at the United States and South Korea for conducting the war games of unprecedented scope and scale and said they could entail dire consequences for peace in the region.

Even as the military options are reviewed and updated, Defense Secretary James Mattis is also underscoring the need for a non-military solution. Second, there is a parallel show of force with the Trump administration planning to send an aircraft carrier battle group.

Budding Australian citizens would have to be competent English language speakers and have been permanent residents for at least four years. The prime minister stressed that the country must continue to attract people who are willing to embrace Australian values regardless of their nationality or religion, and that the test puts Australian values at the very heart of Australian citizenship and pushes the country to become an even stronger and more successful multicultural country.

In an indication that patch-up could be a herculean task, he said only Panneerselvam had the support of people and cadres and the rival camp was "afraid" that the majority of MLAs only favoured Panneerselvam for the Chief Minister's post. 'We have to follow the path which Amma laid out for us. "I have initiated talks with the Panneerselvam camp". Police also claim to have recordings of phone conversations between Dhinakaran and Chandrashekhar, police sources said, adding that some money ...

The Kerala government had defended its decision to transfer Senkumar, arguing that he had protected "erring" police officials in the 2016 Puttingal temple fire tragedy that left 110 people dead and over 300 injured. I was in no way directly responsible for the two cases (Puttingal and Dalit student murder). "There should not be government's favorite officers", Senkumar said.

The tax mimics a similar surcharge British Columbia authorities introduced last summer to curb a 30%-plus run up in prices in the west-coast city of Vancouver, after local data and research indicated foreign investment - in particular from China - were helping fuel a surge.

It had recently lost the by-polls to the Rajouri Garden seat which it blamed was due to hostile constituency dynamics. Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia also appealed to the people to vote for the AAP to "help the national capital fight corruption".

Turkey's main opposition party has slammed the country's electoral board, accusing it of bias and favoring the ruling party. Unofficial results have Erdogan winning the referendum by a slim margin, with 51.4 percent voting "yes". 'But there's no such crime definition in the penal code'. 'I call on people not to give in to provocations or get caught up in incitement , ' he added.

The euro jumped as much as 2 percent to $1.09395, its highest level since November 10, the day after the results of the USA presidential election, as some markets opened in Asia. Over the past six years, Le Pen's rebranded "party of patriots" has gone from strength to strength, propelled by the kind of anti-globalisation, anti-establishment fury that drove Britain's vote to leave the European Union and Donald Trump's election in the United States.

The statement, negotiated by the US, included a call for "dialogue" with Pyongyang at the request of Russian Federation. Despite Washington's threats, North Korea remain undeterred: days ago, when the United States vice president was flying over the Korean region's airspace, Pyongyang attempted to launch another missile.