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The announcement comes as the Palestinians, buoyed by the successful Iran nuclear talks and the start of UN-mediated talks on Syria, have been exploring steps that could lead to a two-state solution.

When Flight AA109 was airborne on Wednesday near Keflavik in Iceland, flight attendants were seen collapsing in the aisles, sparking fears about contamination in the air conditioning.

The result links schizophrenia risk to a problem with a normal process that happens in adolescence and early adulthood, when disease symptoms often appear.

Haqqani network, which is linked to al-Qaeda has also been blamed for several deadly attacks against Western and Indian interests in Afghanistan, including the 2008 bombing of the Indian mission in Kabul.

The agency reported Chinese authorities found evidence which implicates Garratt in accepting tasks from Canadian espionage agencies to gather intelligence in China.

The employees were arrested months after UK telecom firm TalkTalk was hit by a high-profile hacking in October last year when personal details of its customers were compromised.

The virus "is now spreading explosively," in the Americas, where 23 countries and territories have reported cases, the WHO chief said.

Local news station CBS 8 reported that police had confirmed shots were fired at a San Diego military hospital.

The storm was the second-biggest in New York City history, with 26.8 inches (68 cm) of snow in Central Park by midnight on Saturday, just shy of the record 26.9 inches (68 cm) set in 2006, the National Weather Service said.

On Saturday, local villagers living off the coast of Nakhon Si Thammarat in southern Thailand, had reported the discovery of a large metal object, suspected to be part of a plane.

The former senior officer is seeking to give evidence to a UK parliamentary inquiry about how MI5 officials witnessed detainees being tortured at Camp X-Ray and Camp Delta - two of the Guantanamo prisons - in December 2002, 'The Sunday Times' reported.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Bahrain's Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa visited a temple in Manama amid Punjabi music and drum beats.

A student activist was snatched from a Bangkok street, bundled into a car and assaulted by soldiers, his lawyer said, in a dramatic act of military muscle-flexing apparently caught on CCTV.

Another student told television reporters he was in class when he heard gunshots.

The flight test of the Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM), Ra'ad, which is also known as Hatf VIII, was the seventh since it was first tested in 2007.

The UK's Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) used the Indian information technology sector as an example in its latest set of recommendations to call for a review of the country's intra-company transfer (ICT) route under the Tier 2 visa regime.