BEIRUT DJ Moore Youth Jersey , Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- The American University of Beirut (AUB) ranks the first in the QS Arab Region University Ranking of 20172018, local media reported.
AUB said in a statement that this is the first time that AUB has held the top position since the QS Arab Region University Ranking was first published in 2014, adding that the "remarkable accomplishment" is achieved through a collective effort, the Daily Star reported.
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Khouri also added that the AUB is aiming at being placing on the list of the 100 finest universities in the world.
US president Donald Trump warned North Korea on Tuesday that any military option would be “devastating” for Pyongyang, but said the use of force was not Washington’s first option to deal with the country’s ballistic and nuclear weapons program.
“We are totally prepared for the second option, not a preferred option,” Trump said at a White House news conference, referring to military force. “But if we take that option Shaq Thompson Womens Jersey , it will be devastating, I can tell you that, devastating for North Korea. That’s called the military option. If we have to take it, we will.”
Bellicose statements by Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in recent weeks have created fears that a miscalculation could lead to action with untold ramifications, particularly since Pyongyang conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3.
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The assessment by Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, about Pyongyang’s military stance was in contrast to a South Korean lawmaker who said Pyongyang had boosted defenses on its east coast.
“While the political space is clearly very charged right now, we haven’t seen a change in the posture of North Korean forces, and we watch that very closely,” Dunford told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his reappointment to his post.
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North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho on Monday accused Trump of declaring war on the North and threatened that Pyongyang would shoot down U.S. warplanes flying near the Korean Peninsula after American bombers flew close to it last Saturday. Ri was reacting to Trump’s Twitter comments that Kim and Ri “won’t be around much longer” if they acted on their threats toward the United States.
North Korea has been working to develop nuclear-tipped missiles capable of hitting the U.S. mainland, which Trump has said he will never allow. Dunford said Pyongyang will have a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile “soon,” and it was only a matter of a “very short time”.
South Korean lawmaker Lee Cheol-uoo, briefed by the country’s spy agency, said North Korea was bolstering its defenses by moving aircraft to its east coast and taking other measures after the flight by U.S. bombers. Lee said the United States appeared to have disclosed the flight route intentionally because North Korea seemed to be unaware.
U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers Greg Olsen Womens Jersey , escorted by fighter jets, flew east of North Korea in a show of force after the heated exchange of rhetoric between Trump and Kim.
The United States has imposed sanctions on 26 people as part of its non-proliferation designations for North Korea and nine banks, including some with ties to China, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office Of Foreign Assets Control Sanctions said on Tuesday.
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will visit China from Thursday to Saturday for talks with senior officials that will include the crisis over North Korea and trade, the State Department said on Tuesday.
BEIJING, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Belgium's Philippe Gilbert won the final edition of the Tour of Beijing on Tuesday after an intense sprint of the final and fifth stage on Tuesday.
Ireland's Dan Martin, who was last year's runner-up, again took second place overall, while 24-year-old Esteban Chaves of Colombia took third.
Italian Sacha Modolo of Lampre-Merida won a grueling sprint to take the race's fifth and final stage Trai Turner Womens Jersey , a 117-kilometre course that started at Tiananmen Square.
In the last 1 kilometer before the finish line located at the east gate of Water Cube, Modolo showed a great sprinting power to complete the race first with 2 hours 40 minutes and 10 seconds.
Gilbert from BMC clinched the title on 17 hours 59 minutes and 57 seconds.
Michal Golas from QuickStep won the "King of Mountain" award, Chaves was the winner of "the best young rider".
GreenEDGE triumphed in the team classification, a clocking time of 54 hours 1 minute and 16 seconds, 1 minute and 19 seconds ahead of Eurocar.