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Imports of American goods to China were off 2.8% at $11 billion, giving China a surplus with the United States of $24.6 billion.

Customs data on Sunday showed exports to the United States fell 23 per cent from a year earlier while imports of American goods were off 2.8 per cent.

Prolonged drought and conditions caused by global warming have intensified bushfires, a phenomenon otherwise common, with temperatures soaring to over 40 degrees Celsius in Australia.

The president was reiterating a position long held by his administration, including David Malpass when he was a Treasury Department official prior to his election as the current head of the World Bank.

Donald Trump told the high-level meeting, that the government is 'looking very strongly' at water pressure troubles in the nation's bathrooms.

The report details Pakistan's actions against the groups the United Nations has listed as terrorist organisations as well as sentences handed to them by the courts.

In the defamation trial's third day, Vernon Unsworth refused to apologize for a July 13, 2018, CNN interview where he said that Musk's offer of a mini-submarine to help rescue a boys' soccer team from a flooded Thailand cave was a 'PR stunt'.

The report's release comes as world leaders met this week in Madrid for a 12-day UN climate summit, where they are expected to hammer out some of the details of the 2015 Paris agreement.

Myanmar's legal team led by civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to argue that genocide of Rohingya muslims did not occur and that the top UN court lacks jurisdiction.

Pelosi told reporters at her weekly press conference on Thursday that as a Catholic, she resents the suggestion that she hates anyone.

Indonesia's state-owned enterprise minister Erick Thohir, said Thursday a government investigation found Garuda Indonesia President was involved in the attempt to import the motorcycle on a new Airbus A330-900 without declaring it.

Roughly 200 people, including fire fighters and police, took part in the rescue efforts.

According to the Global Climate Risk Index, Pakistan lost 9,989 lives, suffered economic losses worth USD 3.8 billion and witnessed 152 extreme weather events from 1999 to 2018.

Six months of unprecedented protests in Hong Kong against eroding freedoms under Chinese rule have divided the city's population. Rifts in some cases have pitted relatives, friends and even lovers against each other.

The key objective of Australia's aid to Pakistan has been assisting women and girls with a focus on education, increased access to quality reproductive health and gender-based anti-violence services.

There are fears that the dispute over Hong Kong could impact efforts by Beijing and Washington to reach a preliminary deal to de-escalate a prolonged trade war between the world's two largest economies.