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The contract for some 18 million euros (USD 20 million) calls for Siemens to supply rail infrastructure for the Carmichael mine in Queensland, near the Great Barrier Reef.

The militia also attacked a local police station and destroyed a telecommunications mast in the attack in the early hours of Monday in Garissa county.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Sunday's rocket attacks. The US has previously blamed such attacks on Iran-backed groups in Iraq.

The advice expands on an earlier EASA recommendation that national authorities bar airlines from overflying Iran below 25,000 feet.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said President Donald Trump will issue an executive order imposing sanctions on anyone involved in the Iranian textile, construction, manufacturing or mining sectors.

Helicopters and ships were searching the area south-west of the island of Paxos for more survivors, the Greek coastguard said. Authorities said they had accounts of up to 50 people being on the vessel.

The favourable poll came despite Harry never having expressed any interest in the post, which has been held by Canadians since the 1950s but was previously held by Britons.

A total of 292 turtles were found dead, the Federal Attorney's Office for Environmental Protection said on Thursday, adding that 27 were saved and will be nursed back to health before being released back into the wild.

Oil is now below where it was before a US drone strike killed a top Iranian general, with Iran responding with a ballistic missile attack on Iraqi air bases hosting US forces this week that left no casualties.

The state prosecution is reported to have issued a travel ban on Carlos Ghosn and also asked for his file from the Japanese authorities days after he fled from the country.

Even as Gulf Arab states — like Israel — lobbied hard for tough US sanctions and maximum pressure on Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have wanted to avoid outright war.

Iraq's foreign ministry said Wednesday it would call in the Iranian ambassador because of the missile attack, which it called a violation of Iraqi sovereignty.

The former CID director was interdicted by Nugegoda Magistrate's Court based on information which surfaced in a telephone conversation between him and former minister Ranjan Ramanayake of the United National Party.

The Air France Boeing 777 had taken off from Abidjan on Tuesday evening and landed at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport early in the morning.

Trump campaign did effectively use Facebook to rally support for his presidential run, and the social network should be mindful of that without making moves that stifle free political discourse, Andrew Bosworth said in a lengthy post on his personal Faceb...

As regional tensions spike after the US assassination of a top Iranian general, PM Shinzo Abe announced details of his trip, stating that he is deeply concerned about tensions in the Middle East.