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Festival dates are determined by the sighting of the moon and the lunar calendar. Muslims traditionally mark Eid al-Adha with the sacrifice of sheep and cattle. According to him, the meat or blood of the sacrificed ram can not reach but Allah is only concern about the piety of a believer. The cleric, who warned Muslims against using ill-gotten money for the purchase ram for sacrifice, noted that the Almighty Allah was pure and would accept only that which was clean and pure.

Siblings Kim Gyong Sil, 72 and Gyong Yong, 71, wearing the traditional hanbok dress, coloured pale violet, stood nervously staring at the entrance, awaiting their 99-year-old mother Han Shin-ja. The elderly and about 300 others embarked on a trip to North Korea around 8:30 a.m.in 27 buses from Hanwha Resort in the South's northeastern coastal city of Sokcho, where they had spent the previous night.

As people try to get back to normalcy, News18 brings you a Google Form to help reach local authorities in this time of crisis. The United Nations' World Health Organisation ( WHO ) has sent a 13-member team to Kerala, while India's health ministry has said it has set up medical centres in numerous relief camps.

Karin Kneissl was all smiles as she danced with the strongman in a vineyard in Austria's southern Styria province - though critics anxious her invitation to Putin undermined the West's tough-guy approach with Moscow. The Iran nuclear deal , which was recently ditched by the USA, humanitarian efforts in war-ravaged Syria, and the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project...

Khan said "No one has ever been able to blackmail me before". The show received a mixed response from the Twitterati. (WebDesk) - It was the day when newly elected Prime Minister Imran Khan was supposed to steal the show and win the hearts of all those Pakistanis who have not voted for him in Pakistan's general elections 2018.

The president developed parade envy after watching a military parade in Paris, when he was a guest of French President Emmanuel Macron for Bastille Day festivities in 2017. The fact that we spend over $600 billion on defense annually - more than the defense budgets of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, France, United Kingdom, and Japan combined - would seem to suggest that we do, but Americans will have to wait at least another year to see the proof with their own eyes.

He had suffered a stroke in 2009, which reportedly weakened his cognitive abilities, following which he developed dementia. He was the prime minister who ordered nuclear tests in 1998, stoking fears of atomic war between India and Pakistan.

This investigation may have already led to more reasons to revoke his clearance than officials can make public. I'm taking bets. How much will the inevitable John Brennan GoFundMe raise in ResistanceBucks? White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced during Wednesday's daily briefing the Trump administration would be taking away Brennan's clearance .

The two sides "agreed at the meeting to hold a South-North summit in Pyongyang in September as planned", the joint statement said, without giving a precise date. His remarks come as the USA and North Korea face a deadlock in negotiations to follow up on their leaders' pledges at the June 12 summit in Singapore.

The Gibraltar government said in a statement the ship could no longer fly a Gibraltar flag from August 20 and should revert back to the "underlying owners' flag", which is Germany. Of the 141 migrants aboard, 67 are unaccompanied minors, and more than a third are from Eritrea or Somalia, the Spanish newspaper El Pais reported .

Officials said a red alert has been sounded in all the 14 districts of the state. Last week, the gates of the Idukki dam were opened after 26 years to release water that had reached the maximum permissible levels. The state has also sought the services of additional Army personnel and helicopters and the prime minister has assured all help, Vijayan said. With the water levels going up, all the shutters will be once again opened to release water, which may again affect the people in the ...

This punishment is light compared with Apple , YouTube and Spotify, which permanently removed material Jones had published. Jones was banned for a week from the platform after posting a Periscope video in which he urged viewers to ready their "battle rifles".

Hallquist will the Democratic primary in Vermont , CNN projects, becoming the first transgender gubernatorial nominee for a major political party, a breakthrough of both substantial and symbolic importance for LGBTQ Americans, in particular the trans community, which has for so always been shut out of the highest levels of elected office.

But keep one thing in mind - The U.S. has not given any concessions to Mexico - Instead, the U.S.is looking for even further concessions from Mexico as the August deadline for the talks approaches. He said this could take place in "the next few days or weeks". To complicate matters, the already rocky Canada-U.S. relationship has deteriorated since the partners suspended talks in the spring.

The FBI has fired agent Peter Strzok, known for exchanging text messages vowing to prevent Donald Trump from being elected while investigating Hillary Clinton's abuse of classified information and later alleged Trump campaign collusion with Russian Federation.

Trump tweeted that Kelly said Manigault Newman was a "loser & nothing but problems". On Monday, he took the criticism a step further, calling his former aide "vicious" and "not smart". Trump: " You know they run a big operation, but I didn't know it". "No... I, I - Nobody even told me about it". "I think she served previously in the Clinton White House , she had some experience", Short said.

The U.S. military already has a Space Command under the Air Force , headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., but the new Space Force would unify activities and 30,000 employees. what would it mean to go about right now creating a sixth branch of the military? ". "In an impassioned address, he said that space was no longer a "peaceful sanctuary but a domain of conflict" and it was in the national interest to ensure that the United States "[adapts] to that reality".

Kevin Yoder, the first Native American woman elected to Congress. Ocasio-Cortez, who defeated 10-term incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in New York's 14th District Democratic primary in June, acknowledged the $32.6 trillion cost of Sen. He also criticized Ocasio-Cortez's analogy of catcalling, labeling it an "insane" accusation. Indeed, recent interviews and comments from the superstar, who has a degree in economics from Boston University, indicate that she absorbed little at BU in the way of basic ...

In the petition - filed shortly before the expiry of the seven-day period - Mr Chamisa alleged electoral fraud and malpractices during the elections in which Zanu-PF romped to victory, claiming two-thirds parliamentary majority with President Mnangagwa taking a 6.5 percent lead.

As flames raged closer, some residents ignoring evacuation orders stood in driveways or on top of roofs and used garden hoses to keep their homes wet and to fight the flames as smoke billowed around them. But the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says Thursday it will still take several weeks to fully surround the massive wildfire in Northern California, called the Mendocino Complex Fire , because it's burning in steep terrain that's hard to reach.