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Russia launched a bombing campaign in Syria on September 30, saying it needed to target Islamic State jihadists.

In an online statement, the Beijing city government ordered all outdoor construction work to stop on red alert days, besides urging schools to close.

The opposition coalition won at least 99 seats in the incoming 167-seat legislature, electoral authorities announced.

"The US is in touch with the Government of India to discuss ways that we can provide any assistance at this difficult time," Toner said.

David Cameron's government was backed by 397 lawmakers compared to 223 who opposed the bombing, giving him at 174 the strong mandate he said was essential for military action.

Noting that the alliance brings together developed and developing countries, governments and industries, laboratories and institutions in a "common enterprise", Modi had said India will host this initiative at the premises in its National Institute of Sol...

After the Su-24 bomber was downed on the Syrian border last week, Putin accused the Turks of being "accomplices of terrorists" and said oil from IS territory was being exported through Turkey.

The crackdown comes as Pakistan Electronic Media Regulation Authority (PEMRA) is preparing to award official DTH licences to Pakistani investors in December.

A man was arrested after he jumped a White House fence while the first family was inside celebrating Thanksgiving, prompting a temporary closure of its boundaries.

There was no warning, not by radio exchange nor visually, said, one of the rescued Russian pilots, Konstantin Murakhtin.

"There was no warning, not by radio exchange nor visually. There was no contact at all," Konstantin Murakhtin told Russian journalists at Moscow's base in Syria after being rescued by special forces.

The three-week meeting will draw together experts in ballistics, weapons systems, explosives and other specialized fields such as metals and paints to conduct "an in-depth study of the available evidence," prosecutors said in a statement.

The fighter jet was shot down on Tuesday on the Syrian border by two Turkish F-16s warplanes.

The combined company is expected to generate annual operating cash flow in excess of USD 25 billion beginning in 2018 with broadened innovative pipeline of more than 100 combined mid-to-late stage programmes in development.

Pfizer-Allergan business deal will be largest ever in the healthcare sector.

Kachin region bordering China is home to world's highest quality jade, bringing in billions of dollars a year.