Kelly urged aides during a senior staff meeting to focus on their work, rather than the rampant rumors about another staff shake-up in the West Wing, two officials said. Trump himself has fed the narrative of chaos inside the White House. The President's decision comes as he prepares for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Syrian State TV broadcast footage of men, women and children walking along a dirt road near the town of Hammouriyeh, many of them carrying bags, to escape rebel-held areas. A Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday warned about the situation of civilians in the city of Afrin in Syrian Kurdistan, calling on all sides to take "feasible precautions" to avoid loss of civilian lives.

The FAA will order a halt to such flights that "involve restraints that can not be released quickly in an emergency". The Helicopter Association International, which also represents pilots and others in the industry, has been warning against the growing practice of allowing people to photograph from copters without doors and has refused to certify those operations, Dan Sweet, the group's spokesman, said in an interview.

The president of Mauritius had earlier rejected the calls to resign, explaining that she hadn't done anything wrong and had evidence to prove it in court in order to deflate the accusations of the Prime minister Pravind Jugnauth . She even took to Twitter to swat away rumours of her stepping down from office. In 2016, she received a credit card from PEI to pay for travel and other expenses related to her work for the organisation.

Russian Federation has refused Britain's demands to explain how Novichok, a nerve agent first developed by the Soviet military, was used against Sergei Skripal , 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, who were found unconscious on a bench outside a shopping centre on March 4 in the southern English city of Salisbury.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May gave the 23 Russian diplomats - whom she described as undeclared intelligence officers - a week to leave on Wednesday as she accused the Russian state of being "culpable" for the attack in Salisbury. "Bristow told reporters upon leaving the ministry that this crisis has arisen as a result of an appalling attack in the United Kingdom", again linking Skripal's murder attempt to a chemical weapon developed in Russian Federation".

Ri is travelling with Choe Kang Il, deputy director general of the foreign ministry's North America section, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency. The prospect of an Abe-Kim summit also comes at a time of political turmoil for Japan's premier, who is under fire at home over the discount sale of government land to one of his supporters, a deal that was the apparent subject of a cover-up by the finance ministry.

Mr Putin has cast his country as a fortress besieged by hostile Western powers with him as its defender, and state media is likely to portray the anti-British move in that context. "And I don't rule out that something else could follow", first deputy head of the Russian Senate's foreign affairs committee Vladimir Dzhabarov told Interfax news agency.

It is believed at least four others are missing and a major search and rescue operation is under way off the island of Agathonisi, south of Samos. Three people - two women and one man - managed to swim to the coast and alert authorities. The tragedy in the Aegean struck nearly two years to the day since the European Union and Turkey struck a multi-billion euro deal to curb the number of migrants and refugees trying to make their way to Europe.

The Trump administration on Friday blamed the Russian government for a campaign of cyber attacks stretching back at least two years that targeted the USA power grid, marking the first time the United States has publicly accused Moscow of hacking into American energy infrastructure.

Russia is set to expel British diplomats after 23 Russian officials were ordered to leave the United Kingdom , as relations between the countries crashed to a post-Cold War low over the Salisbury nerve agent attack . The tensions threaten to overshadow Putin's expected re-election Sunday for another six-year term. British investigators are working on the theory that the toxin was impregnated in an item of clothing or cosmetics or in a gift that was opened in Skripal's house in ...

A video released from the Broward County Sheriff's office shows then-Deputy Scot Peterson standing around and doing nothing as the shooting at Majorie Douglas High School was ongoing. Couvertier, who watched the entire video with 10News reporter Josh Sidorowicz, said that based on his tactical SWAT experience, that a law enforcement officer in a situation like this is trained to always move toward a shooter.

The response from Moscow is robust and does go further than the United Kingdom measures. The closure of the consulate in St. Petersburg was not given a firm deadline, with the Foreign Ministry saying only that consulate employees will be given sufficient time to finish their work.

According to MDPD Director Juan Perez, three bodies discovered within those two vehicles. National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said at a press conference late yesterday that they are not now aware of cracks in the bridge and they had not received any tips.

Britain's foreign secretary accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of personally ordering the poisoning of the Skripals. It also said it would halt the activities of the British Council, the country's worldwide organisation for cultural relations, in Russian Federation.

The Russian Foreign Ministry also said in a statement that it is ordering the closure of the British Council, a government organization for cultural and scientific cooperation, and that it is ending an agreement to reopen the British consulate in St.

The first is that BJP has a real challenge in 2019 Lok Sabha elections if SP and BSP decide to continue with the alliance and contest against the BJP. Gorakhpur and Phulpur are highprofile constituencies as both the seats were represented by BJP's firebrand leader and current UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya respectively.

He urged the global community to shoulder its responsibilities and to take "urgent, effective and serious steps" on the ground for the protection of Syrian civilians from the daily bombardment, explosives and poisonous gases. 15, 2018. (SANA via AP) This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian civilians with their belongings, fleeing from fighting between the Syrian government forces and rebels, in Hamouria in eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, ...

North Korea has yet to confirm that it issued an invitation for Trump to meet Kim for nuclear disarmament talks, as South Korean officials reported to Trump during a White House meeting last week. Yun served as the State Department's point man on North Korea for 16 months, first under then-President Obama and then under Trump. On Tuesday, Tillerson, who had served as Secretary of State since December 2016, was ousted from the White House and replaced by former Central Intelligence Agency ...

The deadly attacks organized by Taliban and the IS group have reportedly claimed the lives of more than 200 people, mostly civilians, in the capital city since the beginning of this year. But Nicholson conceded that preventing further attacks would be challenging in the sprawling city that is poorly mapped and extremely porous. The 15-nation Council underlined the importance of an inclusive Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process for the long-term prosperity and stability of Afghanistan ...

Sweden is among a number of countries touted as a possible venue for what would be a historic meeting between Trump and Kim, who have engaged in bellicose mudslinging over North Korea's nuclear ambitions. Trump accepted an invitation from Kim when a South Korean delegation delivered it verbally in Washington. North Korea has yet to publicly comment on what it hopes to gain from the talks, leading some to view the offer for talks with skepticism.

Russian Federation said it was also shutting down the activities of the British Council, which fosters cultural links between the two countries, and Britain's consulate- general in St Petersburg. Bristow told reporters afterwards that the crisis had arisen after "the attempted murder of two people using a chemical weapon developed in Russian Federation".

The force stressed that at this stage there is nothing to suggest any link between the murder and the attempted murders of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury on March 4, nor any evidence that Glushkov was poisoned like them.

Over the months since the most recent Rohingya influx began, it has become the world's fastest growing refugee crisis - with tens of thousands fleeing by land and sea daily from Myanmar's northern Rakhine state at the peak of the emergency.

After the apology, Majithia announced he will withdraw the case against Kejriwal and Ashish Khaitan, another AAP leader. "Moreover, we were not taken into confidence before he tendered an apology", said AAP MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira while talking to reporters here.