"They want to plant a giga-university without anyone here agreeing to it," Baranyi, a combative independent politician, told AFP at the windswept former industrial site beside the river Danube.   

A long-held moratorium on expanding ASEAN's external relations appears to be the only thing keeping the United Kingdom from deepening its relationship with the bloc following Brexit.

Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das also vowed to deploy "unconventional" measures if the crisis worsens.

Parliament unanimously passed a motion expressing "grave concern" at human rights abuses in Xinjiang province, but only after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's ruling Labour Party insisted any reference to genocide was scrubbed out.

The vow came as emergency services in the capital worked to retrieve the bodies of victims still trapped in the wreckage of the carriages that plunged to the ground Monday night in a cloud of dust that was soon filled by a rush of rescuers.

After decades of downsizing its role in the region, Britain is poised to have a "persistent deployment" in the Indo-Pacific, according to recent defense and foreign policy reviews.

While acknowledging that Japan has no intention to take provocative actions or "stick its finger in China's eye," Campbell said at an online event hosted by The Financial Times that Tokyo "wants to state clearly that it is behind the status quo (on the Taiwan situation)."

The 45-year-old -- who knelt on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes in Minneapolis -- faces up to 40 years in prison after being found guilty last month in a case that prompted a national reckoning on racial injustice and police brutality.

The incident was caught on camera after Morrison had just finished a news conference in the city of Rockhampton, where he fielded questions about his travel ban on Australian citizens returning from COVID-ravaged India.

The number of children aged 14 or younger stood at 14.93 million as of April 1, some 190,000 fewer than a year before and the lowest figure among comparable data available since 1950, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

There was also no guarantee that, should the right-wing leader fail to assemble a new coalition, parties outside his caretaker government could bridge political differences and unseat him.

The federal government had issued a notice banning mass gatherings commemorating the death of Prophet Mohammad's companion and son-in-law Imam Ali, but local negotiations with religious leaders failed.

Carriages were seen hanging from the overpass in a tangle of twisted cables with the ends pointing towards the ground in a V-shape.

The office formerly held by Prime Minister Boris Johnson oversees a budget of £17 billion ($24 billion, 20 billion euros) along with one of the world's biggest transport networks and city police forces, guaranteeing the mayor national exposure.

Security camera footage broadcast by local media showed the carriages plunging towards the ground in the south of the city.

Beijing's historic alleyways were packed with camera-wielding visitors Tuesday, while a bride dressed in red tulle took wedding photos with her groom outside the Forbidden City.

The supply of the equipment, also available for civilian use, is intended to strengthen defense ties with the Philippines as the two countries are faced with China's assertive claims in the East and South China seas.

In the past 24 hours, India added 357,229 cases, taking the total to 20.3 million, according to the health ministry. Deaths rose 3,449 to 222,408. Many experts suspect the true number to be much higher.

The first in-person G-7 foreign ministers' meeting in two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the gathering is expected to showcase the unity of democratic nations in dealing with global issues, an apparent rebuke of China and Russia which U.S. President Joe Biden has labeled as autocratic regimes.

The landmark posed a dilemma for Macron caught between calls from nationalists to celebrate one of the most significant figures in French history and a campaign from anti-racism activists against the fabled Corsican.

US Representative Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and a Trump critic, assailed him in a tweet, risking further raising the ire of the former president's allies in their Republican Party.

A statement Monday from the panel said the ruling would come at around 1300 GMT on Wednesday, to be followed by a news conference.

Scott Morrison's government moved to ban travellers from India from entering Australia until May 15, threatening rule-breakers -- including Australian citizens -- with prison time. 

The doses, to come on stream from October at the earliest, will broaden out the portfolio of vaccines in the Covax scheme, which has so far been heavily reliant on the AstraZeneca vaccine and hit by delays.

Cases have soared by around eight million since the end of March, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi under growing pressure to take decisive action to reverse the surge.

The European Commission urged the EU's 27 member countries -- which make their own decisions on health matters -- to "lift restrictions on non-essential travel for vaccinated persons travelling to the EU".

In February, Canada said the group posed an active security threat and played a "pivotal role" in the deadly attack on the US Capitol in January by supporters of then-President Donald Trump. US authorities have charged several members of the Proud Boys in connection with the Jan. 6 assault.

The Assad-appointed body approved only three out of 51 applications to stand in the May 26 ballot, among them the 55-year-old president himself, widely expected to win a fouth mandate.

The country's health ministry said there were 11,394 new cases over the last 24-hour period, bringing up the grim new milestone, with 156 new deaths taking fatalities to 64,252.

The documents, obtained by Kyodo News from the US National Archives, also showed that the US government had declined to alter its impartiality over the Japanese-controlled, Chinese-claimed islands in the East China Sea on the basis that the US government's "position on Senkakus dispute had not changed since 1972" when Okinawa, including the uninhabited islets, reverted to Japan.