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Trump's renewed a long-standing call for better relations with Moscow despite a series of conflagrations and crises, including Russian meddling in the US election and the poisoning of a Russian double agent on British soil.

China has increased tariffs by up to 25 percent on 128 US products, including pork, nuts and ethanol, in response to US duties on aluminium and steel, a WTO document showed.

China has traditionally been secretive North Korea's closest ally but ties have been frayed by Kim's pursuit of nuclear weapons and missiles and Beijing's backing of tough U.N. sanctions in response.

The governor of Chiang Mai told Reuters on Sunday that he believed Pim Kemasingki, editor of the Chiang Mai Citylife magazine, had breached the Computer Crime Act by sharing the picture.

The bridge will link Hong Kong to the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai and the gambling enclave of Macau, cutting across the waters of the Pearl River Estuary.

Trump threw Washington into a tizzy on Friday when he threatened to veto the omnibus spending bill, in part because it didn't include the USD 25 billion he'd tried to secure for the wall in a last-minute bargaining spree.

Pakistan former prime minister Nawaz Sharif also called for an end to all laws made under martial law regimes.

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said that this will send a clear message to Russia that there are costs and consequences for their unacceptable pattern of behaviour.

Moscow vowed that this "unfriendly step by this group of countries will not pass without trace and we will respond to it."

The Israeli Prime Minister is suspected of awarding regulatory favours to Bezeq Telecom Israel in return for favourable coverage on a news site the company's owner controls.

A recent United Nations report cites Myanmar's "ongoing" arms relationship with North Korea — underscoring long-standing suspicions Myanmar has failed to sever those military ties as it has transitioned to democracy.

Moscow has denied responsibility for the March 4 attack on Skripal and his daughter, the first known offensive use of a nerve toxin in Europe since World War Two.

Donald Trump said on Thursday he would suspend tariffs for the EU, the United States’ biggest trading partner, as well as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea. The tariffs are suspended until May 1 as discussions continue.

Addressing a press conference on Thursday in Islamabad, Pakistan Minister of Planning, Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal said that CPEC was a purely economic development project that would benefit the region.

Footage from the body cameras and an overhead helicopter does not clearly depict what the man, who was only holding a cellphone, was doing in the moments before the police fired on Sunday night.

Putin's opponents, and independent election observers, say Sunday's vote was skewed across the country by officials loyal to Putin using a variety of tricks to inflate the turnout.