Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg started testifying before Congress on Tuesday as he looks to fend off the possibility of new regulations as a result of the privacy scandal engulfing his social network.

President Trump had threatened to veto the bipartisan deal, which would shield the young immigrants from deportation in exchange for $25bn in border security.

Roy Moore, a former judge and the Republican nominee for a vacant Senate seat in Alabama, has denied explosive allegations from four women that he pursued them when they were 18 or younger.

Leaked documents showed UAE Ambassador to Washington Yousef Al Otaiba paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a witness at a hearing on US-Qatari relations in the US Senate on Wednesday, raising doubts about his credibility.

The US Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to override Barack Obama's veto of a bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia, the first such rebuke of his eight-year presidency.

The State of Qatar expressed its concern on Monday regarding the US Senate's passing of a bill that allows victims of September 11 to sue governments of foreign countries in US courts.