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"She survived because it was a bullet-proof car," Zia's private secretary Shimul Biswas, who was with her during the attack, said.

Iran on Monday pushed its call for peace talks to end the fighting in Yemen, and offered assurances that a nuclear deal would pave the way for greater cooperation with its neighbors.

The Indian Navy has been progressively moving towards indigenisation of design and construction after the process started half a century back, he said.

"As regards the President of the Bank, we are in the final stages of nominating the candidate," Jaitley said at the meeting of BRICS finance ministers and central bank governors on April 16.

Witnesses said buildings swayed in Taipei but there was no visible damage in the Taiwan capital.

The study is aimed at finding out ways to keep astronauts healthier and safer when they spend a long time in space.

It will be the first meeting of its kind since Nigeria's election a week ago which was won by Muhammadu Buhari, a former military leader who has vowed to rid his country of the "terror" of Boko Haram.

The missiles were launched from a base on the west coast and flew more than 100 kilometres, the spokesman for the South's joint chiefs of staff said.

The weapons grade plutonium facility will be dismantled. The robust inspections of Iran's uranium supply chain will last for 25 years.

China proposed the trilateral cooperation after the fall of the Mahinda Rajapaksa government in January.

Indian embassy officials in Yemen have asked people whose travel papers are ready to reach the Sanaa airport immediately.

A 27-year-old Bangladeshi blogger was on Monday hacked to death by three machete-wielding suspected Islamists, a month after a prominent American writer was killed in a similar manner.

Police also discovered personal notes that showed Lubitz suffered from "severe subjective overstress symptoms", he added.

Mikhail Kornienko and Scott Kelly are to spend 342 days aboard the orbiting laboratory, about twice as long as a standard mission on the station.

Beijing has pledged to put up most of the initial US dollar 50 billion in capital for the bank, which is expected to be set up by year's end.

Ghani expressed a revitalized optimism about the US-Afghan relationship.