A gunman wearing body armour and a mask opened fire in a crowded Dayton, Ohio neighbourhood known for its nightlife early on Sunday, killing nine people including his sister and wounding at least 27, authorities said, in the second deadly US mass shooting in less than a day. The Ohio shooting was the third major outbreak of US gun violence, coming seven days after a teenager killed three people with an assault rifle at a food festival in Northern California before taking his own life.

The sharp 1.4 percent drop in the yuan came after the People's Bank of China (PBOC) set the daily mid-point of the currency's trading band at 6.9225 per dollar, its weakest level since December 2018.

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told a Pakistani TV station Monday from Saudi Arabia, where he’s on a pilgrimage to Mecca, that Pakistan would step up diplomatic efforts to prevent the revocation made by presidential order from coming into effect.

The first massacre occurred on Saturday morning in the heavily Hispanic border city of El Paso, where a gunman killed 20 people at a Walmart store before surrendering to police.