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The airline believed there were 67 Germans on the flight.

Zainub Priya Dala was hit in the face with a brick last week after she praised Rushdie's writing at a school in Durban, a city on the country's east coast.

Netanyahu won re-election this week after a close-fought parliamentary campaign in which he toughened his stance, vowing he would thwart the creation of a Palestinian state.

The Sanaa bombings happened as unidentified warplanes attacked the presidential palace in the southern city of Aden for the second day.

"I want to tell you that Mr Lakhvi has not been released, he was in detention and continues to be in detention," Basit said.

The woman was found guilty by a criminal court in Eastern Saudi Arabia of tarnishing the reputation of the complainant through WhatsApp, local media said on Monday.

Omar Gonzalez, 42, formerly of Copperas Cove, Texas, pled guilty in the US District Court for the District of Columbia to two federal offences.

US President Barack Obama is "committed" to a two-state solution for Israel and Palestinians, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday on the stalled Middle East peace process.

The agreement as well as a task force to implement it were announced after a meeting between Modi and Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate is these days being received by fewer and fewer foreign leaders, because of the anger it draws from China, the world's second-largest economy.

Leaking roofs mean members of parliament have to use waste paper baskets to catch drips when it rains.

Cage was in contact several years ago with Kuwaiti-born Londoner Mohammed Emwazi, at a time when he was on the radar of Britain's intelligence services over signs of radicalisation.

Two-thirds of the 239 people on board the Malaysia Airlines flight were from China, where the stability-obsessed ruling Communist Party keeps a tight control on organised gatherings.

Dujarric said the "allegations are being, from my understanding, thoroughly investigated by the Indian authorities."

Jaishankar, who started his trip on Sunday with Bhutan and visited Bangladesh and Pakistan, will round off the first leg of his "SAARC Yatra" with Afghanistan.

The incident came after Maryland Transportation Authority Police reported two people suffered minor injuries from shots fired at a vehicle on the Inter-County Connector.