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Around 150,000 permits that are due to expire between September 5 and March 5 are to be processed for renewal. If a permit expires on March 6, there is nothing that can be done.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman also said the international community must take responsibility for what is happening to the Muslim Rohingya community in Myanmar.

When attached to a semi-automatic rifle, a bump stock uses the gun's recoil energy to "bump" the trigger into the finger, causing it to fire far more quickly than possible if using one's hand manually.

Tillerson's tenure has been dogged with rumours about unhappiness with Trump's policies and rhetoric, but the secretary of state on Wednesday offered a vigorous defence of both the US president and his foreign policy.

There are an estimated 809,000 Rohingya sheltering in Bangladesh after fleeing violence and persecution in Myanmar, more than half a million of whom have arrived since Aug. 25 to join 300,000 Rohingya who were already in Bangladesh.

Nearly 500,000 people belonging to Myanmar's Rohingya minority have been displaced after violence allegedly instigated by the country's military, causing a major humanitarian crisis.

Nawas Sharif, 67, had to step down as the chief of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) after he was disqualified as the prime minister by the Supreme Court on July 28 in the Panama Papers scandal.

While responding to a question if the White House is trying to get back to talks with North Korea, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters, "We have been clear that now is not the time to talk."

The citation for the 9-million-kronor ($1.1 million) prize says the researchers - Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michal W. Young- isolated a gene that controls the normal daily biological rhythm.

"I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man," Donald Trump wrote on Twitter, using his sarcastic nickname for Kim Jong un and seeming to contradict the top US diplomat.

Nadeem Mazen, 34, was set to declare his run as a Democrat for a district northwest of Boston, a seat that comes open next year as 71-year-old Representative Niki Tsongas opts not to seek a sixth term in office.

Rakhine state has been torn apart after unrest erupted in late August, when raids by Rohingya militants sparked a massive army crackdown which the UN says is tantamount to "ethnic cleansing".

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Saturday told top Chinese foreign policy adviser Yang Jiechi that President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping had developed a "very regular and close working relationship".

On August 31, an anti-terrorism court sentenced two senior police officers to 17 years in jail in the Bhutto murder case, nearly 10 years after her assassination.

Over the course of a six-year career, Frida — 8 years old, 65 pounds and trending internet topic — has found 41 bodies and 12 people alive. She has worked quake disasters abroad as well, including in 2010 in Haiti and 2016 in Ecuador.

The growing Rohingya refugee crisis prompted the UN Security Council to hold a rare public meeting on Myanmar, with the US slamming the country for trying "to cleanse the country of an ethnic minority" while Beijing and Moscow backed the Myanmar authoriti...