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More than 800 have been arrested in connection with the flash mobs, officials say, which have rattled the interim government of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus as he oversees the South Asian nation of 170 million until the polls.

KZN Premier Thami Ntuli, Deputy Minister of Transport Mkhuleko Hlengwa and KZN MEC for Sport, Arts and Culture, Mntomuhle Khawula, said Mthethwa played a critical role in bringing the ANC and IFP together in the province.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif condemned what he said were "provocations by Afghanistan" along Pakistan's border area overnight.

The archipelago is vulnerable to climate change and is facing rising sea levels, the deterioration of the marine ecosystem -- particularly its coral reefs -- as well as landslides, flooding and drought.

It took aim at the US's own port fees charged on Chinese ships, claiming they "severely harmed China's interests".