British officials confirmed that Khuram Shahzad Butt, one of the three attackers who launched a van and knife attack in central London Saturday night, was a member of the al- Muhajiroun extremist group with links to the jailed preacher Anjem Choudary .

Noriega also helped the USA seize drug loads at sea and track money laundering in Panama's banks, and reported on guerrilla and terrorist activities. Known as "Pineapple Face" for his pockmarks, Gen Noriega became armed forces chief and ruler of the Central American country in 1983. Noriega had been serving lengthy prison sentences in Panama for murder and forced disappearances during his dictatorship.

Local police in Iran's western province of Kermanshah also said two people have been arrested in connection with the double attacks, while over 90 handguns have been discovered during a security operation in Ravansar County. "The fact ISIS claimed responsibility proves that they [Saudi Arabia] were involved in the brutal attack". The Islamic State (IS) group had said it carried out the attacks, which would be a first in Iran the BBC has reported.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said she had lost all legitimacy and called on her to stand aside and allow him to form an alternative administration, declaring: "We are ready to serve". Her remarks made clear that she is planning to form a minority government with backing from the DUP - rather than entering a formal coalition with the party.

It also comes as Saudi Arabia and other neighbors cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, alleging it funded terror groups and has developed a close relationship with Iran , a nation with which it shares its vast offshore natural gas field. Earlier this week, Trump appeared to tie the blockade to the success of his trip in May to Saudi Arabia and welcomed it as positive news in a series of tweets .

In a statement Gowdy said: "I am grateful to the Steering Committee and the Conference as a whole for this opportunity to serve ". The Oversight Committee is one of a number committees investigating potential ties between Trump associates and Russian officials.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi gave perhaps the dumbest response of the week when a reporter asked her if President Trump should testify against James Comey. Pelosi is assessing the president this way: "I'm concerned about his fitness for office". Her account of Trump's sentiment about the election raises questions about whether the president does indeed believe - against all evidence to the contrary - that he did or could have won the popular vote in November.

Modi pointed out that this was a historic day in the history of SCO and India is determined to cooperate in a proactive and positive manner. He said SCO can also focus attention to address the problem of climate change. However, India on Monday denied any possibility of a meeting between the two leaders on the sidelines of the SCO summit , according to a Hindustan Times report .

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The BBC reported, however, that May did not plan to resign. " Theresa May has no intention of announcing her resignation later today", BBC Political editor Laura Kuenssberg told BBC radio, adding, however: "It's not clear to me whether they're trying to kill the rumours off before she truly makes her mind up".

According to the KCNA, this powerful missile can hit every potential enemy ship. The launches Thursday from Wonsan were North Korea's fourth missile test in as many weeks as the country continues to speed up its development of nuclear weapons and missiles.

Saudi Arabia and several other Arab states have suspended flights to and from Qatar, affecting the nation's airline and Barcelona sponsor, Qatar Airways. The ministry did not say who it suspected carried out the attack, though it thanked the FBI and the British National Commission for Combating Crime for assisting it in its investigation.

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The committee is seeking the materials by June 23. Mueller is slowly filling his special counsel office with an all-star team. He said he would be happy to speak to special counsel Robert Mueller , who is investigating allegations that Russian Federation interfered with the election and colluded with Trump's campaign.

The clerk from the apartments, a Chinese-born Australian man, was gunned down in the foyer and found dead by police. Chief of staff Nicole Bland, who took the call, said she could hear a woman screaming in the background as the man declared "This is for IS".

I think we're all reeling. After receiving formal permission from the monarchy, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said Friday that she will try to forge a government after a snap-election gamble that cost her Conservative Party its parliamentary majority.

A strategic alliance with the United States was formed. Over the decades it has grown into a strong nation, striving to provide its citizens with security while seeking ways to end the conflict with its sworn enemies. Plans for another 1,800 dwellings in several existing settlements were also ratified, the reports said. Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudainah Wednesday said the Israeli government continues to "destroy any chance of resuming the peace process".

Italian media reports suggest Italian authorities had warned British and Moroccan police about the dangers he posed, after he was stopped at Bologna airport in 2016 attempting to make his way to Syria . One of the three knife-wielding terrorists in Saturday's London Bridge rampage was featured in a 2016 British documentary called " The Jihadis Next Door ", news reports show, while a Boston College student has emerged as a hero for helping a wounded man.

The core of the CHOICE act offers banks and financial institutions a way out of the Dodd-Frank supervisory regime and the Basel III risk-capital requirements if the banks opt to maintain higher capital levels. "Today, House Republicans are pushing a unsafe Wall Street-first - Wall Street-first, that's who they are - bill that would drag us back to the days of the Great Recession", House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at a press conference.

Opposition leaders led by Congress party's Rahul Gandhi were detained amidst some drama, on the pretext that they would ignite new fires. Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Bhupendra Singh confirmed today the death of five farmers in the clashes was because of police firing, which he had vehemently denied earlier.

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Ikken, 40, used a hammer to attack the police officer, who suffered slight injuries, and was found to be carrying kitchen knives. Christopher Castaner told RTL radio on Wednesday that police were quickly able to classify the hammer attack as a terrorist act because of "the words he said".

But Trump also warned "states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote". Iranian forces are seen outside the Parliament building in Tehran , on June 7, 2017, during a terrorist attack on the complex. One of the attackers later blew himself up inside, where a session was in progress, according to a statement carried by Iran's state TV. Gunmen and suicide bombers on Wednesday attacked the Iranian parliament and the mausoleum of the revolutionary founder of the ...

He, in turn, asked Maryland's attorney-general for an opinion. "Ten months ago, the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland accepted a request to issue an opinion on the legality of female bare-chestedness from the Worcester County State's Attorney", wrote Covington on her web page , which contains a NSFW photo.

But Haley, in an interview with CNN that aired fully on Sunday, did not hedge. Bloomberg has also pledged to muster $15 million for the United Nations' climate body, substituting for USA funding likely to be axed by Trump. The letter is called " We Are Still In " - as in, still in the Paris Accord. "I knew that as a governor". Similarly, mayors across the nation have signed on to the U.S.

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Saudi Arabia, Egypt , the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain announced Monday they were severing diplomatic relations and closing air, sea and land links with Qatar. "It was something that was ready to explode". The Saudis joined Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and the UAE in cutting ties to the country . The governments of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain have responded in kind.

The US military said Tuesday it had intercepted a mock-up of an intercontinental ballistic missile in a first-of-its-kind test that comes amid concerns over North Korea's weapons programme. UNITED NATIONS-U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Tuesday the Trump administration believes China is using "back channel networking" with North Korea to try and get Kim Jong Un to stop nuclear and ballistic missile testing.

While he didn't make his own conclusion on whether Trump's actions constituted obstruction of justice, he said he was "sure" that the special counsel now overseeing the investigation into the Trump campaign's possible collusion with Russia , Robert Mueller , would investigate it.

And thus began a debate about Jerusalem's status that continues until today, he said . Guterres said, "Today marks 50 years since the start of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, which resulted in Israel's occupation of the West Bank , East Jerusalem, Gaza and the Syrian Golan and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and Syrians".

The section on independence in the 2017 manifesto says that a referendum should be held "when the final terms of the deal are known" and that a win for the SNP next week would deliver "a triple lock" on Sturgeon's mandate to hold one. With the United Kingdom due to leave the European Union in less than two years, the First Minister argued an SNP victory in the General Election in Scotland would "further reinforce" the mandate for a second poll.

Arab superpowers including the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have cut relations with Qatar over claims they support extremism. Bahrain's move against Qatar is in step with other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a close regional alliance that includes Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman, Kuwait and Qatar.

He had said he had "no doubt" Russian Federation had interfered with the presidential election. Robert Mueller, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation director, was appointed as special counsel the week after Comey's firing, which set off a political firestorm and raised suspicions among Democrats and others that the White House was trying to blunt the Federal Bureau of Investigation probe.

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte said the attacker was simply "crazy". Fernando Carlos, his father, said his son wasn't mentally ill. The Philippine National Police on Sunday identified the lone gunman in an attack on a casino near Manila that killed 37 as a gambling addict and not a terrorist.

The intervention of the respected life peer - who served as head of the Foreign Office and as Britain's first National Security Adviser - follows outrage that Mr Trump chose to attack Mayor of London Sadiq Khan within hours of the London Bridge and Borough Market atrocity.

Police have named Zaghba as one of the three attackers who drove a rented van into pedestrians on London Bridge before fleeing into a busy market place and stabbing those who crossed their path. "We had discussions about religion, about Wahhabism and Salafism, but there was never anything about jihad", said Mrs Collina. Another neighbour, Michael Mimbo, told Reuters that Butt supported the north London football team Arsenal.

The result will heap pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May to resign, after she called a snap election in the hope of increasing the Conservative majority in Parliament to strengthen her position in Brexit negotiations. "She made the election a referendum on Theresa May and she has lost". German deputy foreign minister and member of Mrs Merkel's coalition government Michael Roth said Brexit negotiations need to start "as soon as possible".

The Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported Tuesday that Youssef Zaghba , the third named London Bridge attacker , had been stopped in Italy while trying to go to Syria in 2016. The Amaq news agency, which is affiliated with the IS group, said the attacks were carried out by "a detachment of fighters from Islamic State". The three terrorists were later gunned down and killed by police.

He is alleged to have been an associate of the hate preacher Anjem Choudary and appeared in a 2016 Channel 4 documentary about British Islamic extremists, The Jihadis Next Door . "That is a question that will need to be answered by MI5, by the police, as the investigation goes on", he said. Eighteen are still in critical condition, according to health authorities.

The fire, fanned by high winds spread to nearby Plettenburg Bay and Knysna in the Western Cape Province killing several people, destroying homes and forcing the evacuation of up to 10,000 people. City of Cape Town Disaster Management spokesperson Charlotte Powell said more than 800 families were homeless on Wednesday due to the storm. "Had it gone any further today we wouldn't be able to sit here because the situation would've been much worse", she said.

Voters dealt her a stinging rebuke and left her short of the 326 seats needed to win a majority in Britain's 650-seat Parliament. "It will be hard to govern and it could mean another election later in the year". "Well the mandate she's got is lost Conservative seats, lost votes, lost support and lost confidence". The Labour Party would then attempt to form a minority government and get its programme of proposed new laws passed in the same way.

At least 13 people died and dozens were injured in gun and bomb attacks at the Iranian parliament and Ayatollah Khomeini's shrine in Tehran on Wednesday. Assailants armed with Kalashnikov rifles stormed the parliament building Wednesday and one of the attackers blew himself up inside, where a session had been in progress.

The men had left Iran to fight for the extremist group in Mosul, Iraq, as well as Raqqa, Syria - the group's de facto capital, the ministry said. The statement indicated that only five people carried out Wednesday's twin attacks, rather than six originally reported .

The SCO had set the ball rolling to make India a member of the bloc during its summit in Ufa, Russia, in July, 2015, when administrative hurdles were cleared to grant membership to India and Pakistan. "We need a clear and honest rating, politically unbiased, not subject to the influence of a volatile political situation, which we have already faced in the recent past", Katyrin, who chairs Russia's part of the Business Council, said.

Details suggest that the document in question was the basis for a report from the Intercept on Monday about cyberattacks carried out by Russian government hackers against a US voting software supplier before the presidential election. Prosecutors successfully argued Thursday that 25-year-old Reality Winner might possess more stolen government secrets and that she might be a flight risk if released on bond.

With a hung parliament, the so-called "hard Brexit " that May had been pushing for seems less and less likely to pass. Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka of the Czech Republic told Czech Television that "now it will be necessary to wait for who will form a government and what this government will bring to negotiations over Brexit", Reuters reports.

India has been an observer to the forum since 2005. Pakistan give special attention to belt and road initiative of China and already in process to complete China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) linking China to sea. Modi said that the SCO will help in bringing peace in war-torn Afghanistan. "The sense of the meeting was that the two countries have great benefit, great interest in working with each other and we will have differences".

On May 23, a report appeared on the Qatar News Agency website that attributed positive remarks about Iran and Israel and criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump to the country's ruler, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. "If it does, we will offer them (route) alternatives", he told reporters on the sidelines of an airline industry meeting in Mexico. It was unclear whether the Qatari leader would accept, especially as one outspoken Emirati ruling family member, writer and political ...

The Kuwaiti ruler played a pivotal role in mediating a compromise in a 2014 diplomatic dispute between Saudi Arabia , Qatar and other Gulf states . Putin had a telephone conversation with the emir of Qatar Tuesday, urging dialogue. Qatar has denied the allegations. Reuters could not immediately validate the report.

It's official: Japanese Emperor Akihito will abdicate from the throne, making him the first Japanese monarch to do so in 200 years. Under the current Imperial Law, women are obliged to abandon their Imperial status if they marry a commoner.