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Update: 8: 00 am - Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi has visited Mosul to congratulate Iraqi forces for their "victory" over Islamic State (IS) in the city.

Update: 6:21 am - The White House, in an official press release regarding the Donald Trump-Xi Jinping meet at the G20 Summit at Hamburg, called XI the President of the "Republic of China", the official name for Taiwan. The official name of Xi's presidency is the People's Republic of China.

Update: 7:26 am - French Polynesia's president Edouard Fritch has held talks in Paris with the French transport minister Elisabeth Borne about the future administration of Tahiti's international airport.

Update: 9:14am - The Vanuatu Ministry of Justice and Community Services has spoken out strongly about violence against women and girls.

Update: 8:34am - Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Saturday emerged as the "most potential candidate" to replace beleaguered Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif if he is disqualified by the Supreme Court for alleged graft and money laundering in the sensitive Panama Papers case.

Update: 8:07am - Children in the electorate of Papua New Guinea's incumbent prime minister are too scared to turn up to school due to election-related violence.

UPDATED: 7:07am - A United Nations human rights panel says it's concerned at the widespread use of corporal punishment in Samoa.

UPDATED: 6:08am - North Korea has conducted a series of missile tests in recent months, the latest one being a nuclear test which the country's central news agency claimed ran "perfect" and fit to be loaded on to a missile.

Updated: 7:18am - Eric Paddock said his wealthy brother was a big spender at casinos and often received free meals and rooms there. He also described Stephen as quite different from other people.

Updated: 7:46am - Authorities in the Solomon Islands are trying to work out if there's been any damage after a remote volcano erupted early morning yesterday.