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The toll increased by 45 people as emergency workers continued pulling bodies from the rubble in the western province of Manabi, officials said.

"Transport Minister Jacqueline Galant has offered her resignation to the king, which was accepted," Prime Minister Charles Michel said.

Obama praised the two Indian-American science whiz kids, Maya Varma and Anarudh Ganesan, for their innovative ideas and path breaking thinking, which he said would help serve the global community.

The tomb was discovered by construction workers in Zhongshan county, according to Chen Xiaolin, head of the county's cultural relics office, reports Xinhua news agency.

A rare copy of the First Folio of the works of William Shakespeare has been found in a home on the Scottish isle of Bute.

Pakistan continues to experience significant terrorist violence, including sectarian attacks and foreign and indigenous terrorist groups continue to pose a danger to the US citizens: US

"The Indian request for consular access is under consideration," Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakaria said.

Although still a rarity, acceptance at every Ivy League school appears to be a growing phenomenon.

"At the UN this is a very serious issue. We need to discuss, we need some kind of understanding from the related countries, concerned countries," the official said.

In her major policy address, Lagarde said overall, the global outlook has weakened further over the last six months exacerbated by China's relative slowdown

The probe will aim to establish what crimes might have taken place and who committed them, as well as identifying possible financial damages, it said.

Panama, a small nation of just four million people, has a booming financial services sector that, including revenue from its famous canal, accounts for nearly 80 percent of GDP.

Supninder Singh Khehra, an Indian citizen from Patiala and a resident of the Toronto suburb of Brampton, was verbally abused and beaten by a group of men who seemed to be drunk by who targeted him because of his brown skin and turban.

China has asserted that JeM chief and Pathankot terror attack mastermind Masood Azhar does not qualify to be nailed as a "terrorist" to face UN sanctions.

India and Pakistan need to make progress in reducing their nuclear arsenal and ensure they do not "continually move in the wrong direction", said Obama.

Egypt blocked Facebook Inc's Free Basics Internet service at the end of 2015 after the US company refused to give the Egyptian government the ability to spy on users.