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In an apparently co-ordinated effort, tens of thousands of Hong Kongers streamed towards the PolyU campus to break the siege, as clashes simultaneously raged with police nearby in Kowloon.

The US government said this extension to Huawei would allow service providers to continue to serve rural areas.

In August, a man killed 22 people at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart and injured 26 others.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 70, defeated Sajith Premadasa, 52, by more than 13 lakh votes, the election commission announced on Sunday. He will succeed President Maithripala Sirisena for a five-year term.

The Korean Air Boeing and Air Namibia Airbus planes hit each other shortly after both landed at the airport on Saturday evening.

The commander in chief also ordered a promotion for a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq.

As many as 12,845 polling stations were set up across the country for 15.9 million voters. A voter turnout of "almost 80 per cent" was recorded, the National Elections Commission said.

The president also reversed the demotion of Edward Gallagher, a 15-year Navy Seal accused of stabbing to death a wounded teenage Islamic State prisoner in Iraq, and of other killings of civilians.

Morales, who was granted asylum in Mexico after his resignation Sunday, said on Twitter that a massacre had occurred and he described Bolivia's government led by interim President Jeanine ez as a dictatorship.

There were no immediate reports of casualties, but a police official said the attackers had burnt tyres on the road and set up makeshift road blocks to ambush the convoy of more than 100 vehicles.

Pope Francis, however, did not name any politicians or countries as the targets of his criticism.

The high tide Friday is projected to peak at 1.60 meters (more than 5 feet) which is far beyond normal levels. The iconic St. Mark's Square was covered in knee-high water in the morning.

The Nielsen company said 10 different networks aired live or taped coverage of the hearing, which stretched nearly six hours on Wednesday.

One of the drivers lost control after a tyre blowout and crashed into the other vehicle, according to state TV.

On Wednesday the government granted one-time permission to Sharif for travel abroad for four weeks against submission of Rs 700 crore indemnity bonds.

For the first time in Sri Lanka’s history of Executive Presidency, no sitting President, Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition is contesting in the Presidential election.