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Large parts of Afghanistan have been covered in snow as a major storm interrupted an otherwise mild and dry winter.

During his India visit last month, Obama had reaffirmed his support for a reformed UN Security Council with India as a permanent member.

Top leaders of 26 Pakistani terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Haqqani network "are products of" madrassas and there is an urgent need to reform all such seminaries, an executive of a Pakistani NGO has said.

India and Oman have a very robust relationship based on extensive people-to-people contacts and historical economic and cultural exchanges.

Amit Patel from Edison was shot and killed in New Jersey inside Roseway Liquors in Irvington on Sunday.

IS released a grisly video showing the beheading of several Egyptian Coptic Christians it had held hostage for weeks.

Sirisena is desirous of making a new beginning in the Indo-Lanka relations after bilateral ties suffered under Rajapaksa's regime.

"Our PM Mr Modi has reached 10 million followers on Twitter," the micro-blogging site said in a statement.

"Some quarters have inaccurately quoted my statement regarding religious attire," Asri said in a post on a social media page.

The accused and the Filipina receptionist worked in the same hotel at Jumeirah Palm, said records.

Barack Obama on Thursday invoked India's example to make a plea for religious freedom and how faith leads people to do good.

The trip comes just days after US President Barack Obama's unprecedented second visit to India.

The president also seeks to build consensus for a new premier in case of government collapse not a rare event in Italy.

Rapid climate change is a challenge of the 21st century, displaying increasingly the evidences of highly erratic weather deviations and extreme events.

Spielberg was talking to Holocaust survivors ahead of the event marking 70 years since Soviet troops liberated the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp.