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LTTE was proscribed in Britain in March 2001, when it was characterised as a 'terrorist group fighting for a separate Tamil state in the North and East of Sri Lanka'.

The President's spokesperson also warned that if Ottawa would not formally accept the shipment of trash it would be dumped inside Canada's territorial waters.

The state's Chief Minister Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail said in a statement that Ahmad Shah died at the National Heart Institute in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday morning, according to state news agency Bernama.

Two of three major state-owned carriers Air China Ltd. and China Southern Airlines Ltd. said Wednesday they want compensation for their aircraft being grounded.

The Islamabad High Court has already granted pre-arrest bail to Asif Ali Zardari in seven other cases related to alleged money laundering through fake accounts.

The Day of Remembrance commemorates the killing of two million people by the leader Pot Pol of Khmer Rouge's regime; A quarter of Cambodia's population were culled in mass killings or died of starvation, forced labour or torture.

Raising parted views within the family per se, it also drew constitutional criticism as active euthanasia is illegal in France despite recent efforts to ease legislation dealing with the terminally ill.

The Australian whistleblower, who holed himself up in the Ecuadoran embassy in London for seven years to avoid a British extradition order to Sweden, was arrested by British police on April 11 after Ecuador gave him up.

The Houthi rebels, named as 'terrorist militias of Iran', have previously sparked international criticism for killing civilians; There will be 'strong deterrent' to such attacks, says Al-Masirah satellite news channel.

Around 800 would-be refugees in Australia’s offshore Pacific camps had prayed for a more lenient policy from Labor, who had been strongly tipped to win.

The Green Zone is one of the world's most high-security institutional quarters, which houses parliament, the prime minister's office, the presidency, other key institutions, top officials' homes and embassies.

Improvements were "imbalanced" and some regions faired far worse than others, it said, with cities in the provinces of Shanxi, Liaoning and Hubei singled out for failing to control pollution discharges.

To win a majority in the House of Representatives, either major party will need 76 seats.

The girls were told that they will get their passports and visa in Delhi and were promised an attractive salary, the SSB officer said.

Backing Sri Lanka over horrific Easter Sunday terrorist attacks of April 21, the US reiterated to support the terror-struck nation and offered to continue to expand counter-terrorism and maritime and border security cooperation with it.

This accident befalls a day after 10 people got killed when a building being refurbished in the financial hub of Shanghai collapsed.