Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut diplomatic and trade links with Qatar in June 2017.

Allyson Felix beat retiree Usain Bolt's record just 10 months after undergoing an emergency C-section.

The Taliban launched the "massive attack" from several different points around the city overnight, said Sayed Sarwar Hussaini, spokesman for the provincial police chief, who reported "intense gun battles" around the city.

The talks began on Saturday and are expected to continue into the next week.

The upcoming negotiations are scheduled between the leaders of the Taliban and U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad to discuss the withdrawal of foreign forces and a possible ceasefire in 2019.

Qatar sent its state minister for foreign affairs to the annual one-day summit, which was overshadowed by the economic and diplomatic boycott of Doha since mid-2017 by Saudi Arabia.

Qatar announced Monday it will withdraw from OPEC in January, a rebuke of the Saudi-dominated cartel ahead of a crucial meeting of the group later this week.

Olsen finished second behind U.S. superstar Simone Biles.

The Salwa Marine Canal would be dug entirely inside Saudi territory, and would leave a one-kilometre sliver of Saudi land beside the Qatari border.

Amid an escalating diplomatic spat between Canada and Saudi Arabia, a Saudi youth organization tweeted and later deleted an image that appeared to show an Air Canada plane heading toward the CN Tower.