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Officials issued a travel alert warning US citizens in Europe to avoid crowded places, to be vigilant when in public or using mass transit.

The bloodshed comes days after the dramatic arrest of Salah Abdeslam -- the prime suspect in the Paris terror attacks -- after four months on the run.

Nepal and China on Monday signed major deals which included a landmark transit treaty that will see the end of Nepal's near-total dependence on Indian sea ports for trade.

The effects of the Brussels airport and train station closures rippled across Europe.

Brussels Airport has cancelled flights and are evacuating the airport area, it said on its Twitter account

A view shows the airport of Rostov-On-Don, the point of destination of the crashed Boeing 737-800 Flight FZ981 operated by Dubai-based budget carrier Flydubai, in Rostov-On-Don, Russia.

The leaders of the Madhesi alliance on Friday handed over a memorandum to Ambassador Wu Chuntai urging China to exert diplomatic pressure on Nepal for fulfilling their demands.

An experimental vaccine against dengue, the world's most common mosquito-borne virus, was 100 percent effective in early trials and could speed up the pace of a vaccine against Zika, researchers said recently.

Of some 5.3 million people displaced by fighting in northwestern Pakistan in recent years, a million or so remain to be resettled.

Obama formally announced his intent to nominate the centrist judge, who has earlier been on the shortlist twice, in a ceremony at the White House's Rose Garden.

UN peace envoy Staffan de Mistura described the withdrawal announcement as a "significant development" for negotiations that began in Geneva on Monday.

According to the UK's Office of National Statistics (ONS), of the 55,589 Tier-2 sponsored visa applications cleared in 2014-2015, nearly 78 per cent were for Indians (31,058).

Merkel's Christian Democratic Union was at the receiving end of voter anger, suffering defeats in two out of three states in Sunday's elections.

India's Bnei Menashe community in the north-eastern states of Manipur and Mizoram, believed to be descendants of one of the 10 lost tribes of Jews.

The move has inspired other villages around the country to follow suit and take the law into their own hands as the central government shows little sign of launching a determined, nationwide fight against tobacco.

Trump insisted that he tries to bring down the temper in his rallies and refuted strongly that he tries to incite violence.