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"Today the American people can be proud because this historic agreement is a tribute to American leadership, " Obama said.

A silhouette of Mandela flying across a map of South Africa signifying his contribution in freeing the country after decades of minority white apartheid rule is shown in the tapestry.

The coalition said it hit Raqqa and other areas of northern and eastern Syria on Sunday.

Drawing a sharp dividing line between Al-Qaeda and ISIS threat groups when it comes to attacks on the homeland is difficult despite differences between them in the Middle East.

Falciani revealed that HSBC's Swiss private banking arm aided over one lakh clients to evade taxes worth more than USD 200 billion.

"We believe that the Turkish leadership has crossed the line of what is acceptable," Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at the start of talks with Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem in Moscow.

The national monument will comprise 298 trees, one for each of the victims of the ill-fated flight, the MH17 Disaster Foundation said.

"Two suspects linked to the attack last week at the Radisson hotel have just been arrested and they are being interrogated," one of the sources said.

Eleven days after the deadly attacks that killed 130 people in Paris, Obama and Hollande announced they would intensify their air raids against IS, and urged Russia to focus its military efforts against the group.

French police were on Tuesday analysing a suspected suicide belt similar to those used in the Paris assault, according to sources close to the investigation.

The current unseasonal rains in parts of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are also being attributed to Climate Change.

"Two air force Mirage 2000s were engaged in the mission," the defence ministry said.

Neurons could be protected against stress through use of a gene therapy technology.

Belgium has been at the heart of investigations into the Paris attacks after links to Brussels, and the poor district of Molenbeek in particular, emerged.

IS claimed responsibility for the bombing of a Russian passenger jet last month that killed all 224 people on board.

There is no proposal under consideration to give India the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status, Pakistan Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan has said.