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The video captured a rare candid moment for Xi, whose image is carefully curated by Chinese state media.

That forecast is well below the 48 gigawatts the state-owned electricity group EDF says will be available on January 1, when demand usually soars as winter settles in.

The shortage of wood and woodchip began early this year, when the imports were banned and its impact may last beyond the immediate crisis, due to the time needed to grow it.

Khomeini is said to have been born at the house in the town of Khomein -- from where his surname derives -- at the turn of the century.

Hundreds of residents in the newly-liberated city of Kherson queued up in the rain to switch the Russian SIM cards in their mobile phones for local ones on Thursday, only days after the city was retaken by Ukrainian forces.

Russia wants the jailed arms dealer back in Moscow and is discussing a prisoner swap with the United States that could see him exchanged for Americans imprisoned in Russia including basketball star Brittney Griner.

Over 280,000 people have been displaced in North-Kivu province since the group staged their first major offensive in years at the end of March, authorities and the United Nations said.

Addressing a summit in Bangkok, Harris called the United States a "proud Pacific power" and said that the longstanding US network of security alliances has allowed Asia to prosper.

The APEC summit comes days after a high-stakes meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping took some heat out of their escalating rivalry.

Ljungqvist added that technical analyses were continuing in order to "draw more reliable conclusions regarding the incident."

It marks the start of a month-long footballing extravaganza that embattled Qatari organisers desperately hope will be remembered for events on the field rather than off it.

The 2022 World Cup has been dogged by controversy since Qatar was announced as the first Middle East nation, and Gulf absolute monarchy, to host it.

UN chief Antonio Guterres said late Thursday there was "clearly a breakdown in trust" between developed and emerging economies as he called for deal on loss and damage.

Hours after North Korea fired a missile that Japan said was capable of striking the US mainland, Harris met the leaders of close US partners on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit in Bangkok.

The Chinese-owned mine wants to expand, and many of Mutombo's fellow residents have taken buy-outs.

Saturday's general election looks to be the Southeast Asian nation's tightest since independence in 1957, with opinion polls predicting a hung parliament as no party or coalition is expected to get the simple majority needed to form a government.

Brent crude futures clawed back 64 cents to stand up 0.7% to $90.42 a barrel at 0446 GMT, but were not far off four-week lows of $89.53 hit in the previous session.

Flood-weary residents in Australia's southeast were urged to remain on high alert for major flooding through the weekend, authorities said on Friday, as swollen rivers continued to roll downstream despite an ease in severe weather conditions.

At 800 meters (2,600 feet) altitude, conditions are ideal for the eight varieties of high-quality arabica coffee beans he planted with his "own hands."

The bombastic journalist is one of several young upstart candidates who will contest the Himalayan republic's election on Sunday against the familiar faces that have strode the corridors of power for decades.

Khashoggi was killed and dismembered in October 2018 by Saudi agents in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, an operation which U.S. intelligence believed was ordered by Prince Mohammed.

The Malaysian airliner departed from Amsterdam and was bound for Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down over eastern Ukraine Ukraine on July 17, 2014, as fighting raged between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces.

Ardern is scheduled to meet President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bangkok. This will be their first in person meeting since 2019.

Xi was quoted by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV as telling Kishida that China and Japan should deepen trust, areas of cooperation and regional integration, and resist "conflict and confrontation".

A South Korean defence official told AFP that they "estimated that North Korea had fired an ICBM", without giving further details.

Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush was left waiting on the tarmac at Tripoli airport when Dendias refused to disembark from his plane and instead flew on to second city Benghazi, where a rival administration holds sway.

The Foundation's pledge, which is up 40% on the amount spent during the previous four years, will target projects tackling hunger, disease, poverty and gender inequality.

Gulf of Guinea neighbours Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Togo are confronting increased risks from Islamic State-allied and Al Qaeda militants waging war over their northern borders in the Sahel.

The Hungarian forint jumped to 411.50 from 414 against the euro on the news of the expected approval of the funding.