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IMF chief denies any wrongdoing and said today in a statement released by French adviser Marc Vanghelder that she "always acted in this affair in the interest of the state and in respect of the law."

The "Paris agreement" aims to keep global temperatures from rising another degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) between now and 2100, a key demand of poor countries ravaged by rising sea levels and other effects of climate change.

"This is huge: Almost every country in the world just signed on to the Paris Agreement on climate change-thanks to American leadership," US President Barack Obama said in a tweet.

In another first, women were allowed to stand as candidates in the polls for municipal councils, the country's only elected public chambers.

Multiple blasts and gunfire rocked Kabul's diplomatic quarter after the brazen raid began on Friday, just hours after President Ashraf Ghani voiced optimism that a peace process with the Taliban would resume within weeks.

Pitching for better ties with the neighbouring countries, Sushma said that India is ready to work with Afghanistan and Pakistan claiming that 'the heart of Asia cannot function if its arteries are clogged.'

Olivier Poubelle and Jules Frutos, who book the acts and own a third of the theatre as well as several other music venues around the French capital, told Le Monde of their devastation over the attacks.

The intermediary, 25, whose name hasn't been made public, had been arrested earlier on Tuesday in his home in Malakoff, south of Paris, by counterterrorism police.

Putin and Erdogan have been locked in a furious war of words since the incident and the Kremlin strongman rejected the Turkish leader's offer of face-to-face talks on the sidelines of a climate conference in the French capital.

Police raided the building after an emergency call reporting shots fired at the Colorado abortion clinic.