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A travel ban has been placed on the vessel's operators, suspected of bribing port authorities.
"[This] accelerates South Sudan's descent into an even more difficult situation from which it needs to extract itself," an official said.
French troops and UNHCR officials provided safe passage to the northeast for the last Muslims to leave the city.
Beijing has criticised the White House strategy as a bid to contain China's rising economic and political clout.
The Electoral Commission says it is ready to hold a runoff election should no candidate achieve 50+1 in the results.
UN official says 350 militia members stormed the camp and began killing refugees before peacekeepers returned fire.
Yellen defended Fed policy and said that despite the tapering of the stimulus programme, interest rates will not budge any time soon.
Police sources in Borno said that the girls were likely taken to Boko Haram's main camps in Sambisa forest to the north of the state.
South Korean naval authorities said they were able to rescue 174 people, 78 of whom were students.
On Tuesday, Lebanese authorities said they would begin limiting the number of Syrian refugees coming in to the country.
