Trump says he will demand drug tests at this week’s debate with Joe Biden, in an attack aimed at his Democratic rival’s mental capacity.

Protests also took place in nine other cities, underlining the wide extent of dismay and anger with President Alexander Lukashenko.

According to the report in the New York Times, the President has treated daughter Ivanka as a consultant, and then deducted payments worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to her as a cost of doing business.

The New Zealand Prime Minister has indicated that the trans-Tasman bubble could work if Australia was committed to shutting out any localised outbreaks.

The referendum defeated a move that could have triggered reciprocal disadvantages for millions of Swiss citizens living and working in the EU.

It comes after a retired colonel was sworn in as president, and coup-leader Colonel Assimi Goita as vice-president.

Trump is a highly tactical person. That characteristic, more than anything else, makes the question of what will happen in this week’s debate anyone’s guess.

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The injunction comes as negotiations are underway to hammer out terms of a preliminary deal for Walmart and Oracle to take stakes in the company’s US arm.

Australia’s ambassador to Lebanon, Rebekah Grindlay, says the country faces a crisis unless its political leaders set aside self-interest.