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Tunisian security forces has arrested nine people on Thursday in connection with the attack on the National Bardo Museum.

With the convergence of strategic interest in the Indian Ocean there is a mutual desire for a deeper naval and maritime co-operation between India and the US, top Pentagon commanders have said.

Authorities said at least eight people were killed, including seven foreign tourists, and six people were wounded.

AIF has fostered the support of internationally recognized members of the Indian diaspora, including Nobel economist Amartya Sen, Chair, AIF US Advisory Council.

"The solution is a political transition which would preserve regime institutions, not Mr Bashar al-Assad," said France Foreign Minister.

Putin also expanded on a previous admission that the well-armed forces in unmarked uniforms who took control of Ukrainian military facilities in Crimea were Russian soldiers.

"We don't want to be rushed because we want to avoid casualties," police Staff Major General Bahaa al-Azzawi said.

The 2013 rate was 0.41 and the five-year average rate 0.58 per million flights.

An assistant principal who saw the DVD movie playing in the classroom confiscated it.

The Swedish scholar and industrialist who passed away in 1896 left a will demanding most of his fortune be distributed to outstanding achievements in literature, peace, physics, chemistry and medicine.

Police arrested 471 parents who refused to administer polio vaccine to their children during the ongoing two-day anti-polio campaign, Deputy Commissioner Peshawar Riaz Khan Mehsud said.

"Our security team is investigating the veracity of these threats with relevant law enforcement officials," a representative for Twitter said.

"Last year VoA was issued to 43 countries. As tourism in the country has increased, I propose to increase the countries covered under this to 150," the Finance Minister said.

The search team has retrieved 103 bodies of passengers and crew with some of the bodies found in waters about 1,000 km away from the crash site.

Lankan Foreign Minister Samaraweera will kick off his visit with talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.

Talks about the contract, worth a possible $23 billion, have been going on for more than three years.