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“Today we refuse to be bystanders to further suffering and to the destruction of the two-state solution,” British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband says.

“Donald Trump clearly emphasised the desirability of bringing the conflict to an end as soon as possible,” Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov says after the Trump-Putin call.

The evidence on whether chemical castration is effective in bringing down crime rates is so far "not conclusive", said Senior Minister K Shanmugam.

Saudi Arabia's reprisals came after the Houthis fired dozens of ballistic missiles, hitting Abha International Airport, King Khalid air base and facilities belonging to state oil giant Aramco in Abha and Jizan.

South Korea said it had sent a fact-finding team to assess the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, but stressed that no decision had been made about potential troop deployment to the strategic waterway.

Operators must now also specify permitted GIRO deductions in contracts with parents, with unauthorised deductions potentially leading to the suspension or termination of their services.

There is also a cost to not attracting the talent needed to steer Singapore in more complicated times, says former Nominated Member of Parliament Nicholas Fang.

Non-monetary factors such as loss of privacy are bigger deterrents to entering political life, say experts after the government's first ministerial pay revision since 2011.