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"Make no mistake, we will win, and groups like ISIL will lose," Obama said.

Just as in that earlier case, US jets on Saturday first conducted a low-flying "show of force" over the trucks, then dropped leaflets telling drivers to flee.

The army and police will continue to be deployed in force and the country will reduce the number of events with large crowds, for fear of a repeat of the Paris gun and suicide bomb attacks on November 13.

The epicentre of the quake was located at the Arik Township at a depth of 10 kilometres.

Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian (in poster), who was arrested in July 2014, had been accused of espionage in Iran.

Three executives of China Railway Construction Corporation Limited were killed in the Radisson Blu hotel siege in the Malian capital Bamako on Friday, the company said in a statement.

The national flag was in the background of Prime Minister Modi and Shinzo Abe's customary handshake at the ASEAN Summit.

A US court jailed Pollard, a Stanford University graduate and former US Navy intelligence analyst, for life in 1987 after he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to deliver national defense information to a foreign government.

The ministry said that Russian aviation had already destroyed some 500 fuel trucks over the past "few days" transporting oil from Syria to refineries in Iraq.

Sources said Russia launched air strikes against the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria on Tuesday, signalling Moscow was becoming more concerned about the threat posed by IS.

The victim's body was found in a burnt-out van after a suspected revenge attack sparked by claims from the new wife she was raped a week before her wedding on Sumatra island.

Normally visited by between 15,000 and 20,000 people a day, the tower was closed until further notice after Friday's attacks.

The prosecutors confirmed that a major police raid in Brussels on Monday aimed at arresting Salah Abdeslam had ended without anyone being detained.

The Great Pyramid of Khufu was illuminated by projectors reproducing the flags of France and Russia and the green cedar of Lebanon.

Nepal's remarks came in response to the joint statement on November 13 in which India and the UK, during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to London, stressed the importance of a lasting and inclusive constitutional settlement in Nepal that will addres...

Barack Obama pledged solidarity with France in the effort to hunt down the perpetrators and bring them to justice.