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Tokyo has not officially replied to Beijing's comments on the march, being held to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the conflict, but it is unlikely that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will go, the local media reported.

No negotiation was held after both sides failed to bridge substantial gaps on crucial issues including data security status for the IT sector in May 2013.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned on Friday the "terrorist attacks" on Yemeni mosques that killed at least 142 worshippers.

The US military bases in Kandahar and Jalalabad are likely to remain open beyond the end of 2015, a senior US official said.

India, the US and the European Union have all expressed concern over 47-year-old Nasheed's imprisonment and conviction for ordering the detention of a judge in 2012 when he was president.

Sirisena and Wickremesinghe will travel with the Indian leader on Saturday to the sacred city of Anuradhapura, the capital of North Central Province, government sources said.

The agreement as well as a task force to implement it were announced after a meeting between Modi and Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena.

KFC is owned by Louisville, Kentucky-based Yum Brands Inc, which has no publicly stated policy on antibiotic use in the production of meat it buys.

Germany's ambassador to India has rebuked a German professor for what he said was the rejection of an internship application from a male Indian student on grounds of India's "rape problem".

MH370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board.

The city of Sandy Springs says he violated an ordinance aimed at keeping workers from waking up residents.

"What would I have done? I would have took my gun, I would have put it to Obama's head and I would have pulled the trigger," Cornell said.

Numerous markets in India have appeared in past Lists, with no identified meaningful, effective response by the Indian government," the US Trade Representative (USTR) said in its 'Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets.

Officials are quick to offer reassurances that they remain committed to finding the plane.

Hundreds of people have been killed and an indeterminate number have been reported missing after the series of avalanches in Afghanistan.

Several minority communities, including Christians, Yazidis and Turkmen, have been subjected to killings, rape and sexual enslavement, and women and children have been targeted in particular, says human rights organisations.