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Officials said that the death toll could further go up as some areas in the valley were still inaccessible due to heavy snowfall, it said, adding that the that there is a forecast of another spell of snowfall from Friday.

The former interior minister was close to former president Evo Morales, who resigned in November amid protests over a disputed election and fled the country.

Tensions have soared since the US airstrike earlier this month that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iran's top general and the architect of its regional military activities.

National rail operator SNCF said that eight out of ten high-speed TGV trains were now operating, although slower regional trains were more affected.

Kenneth Roth was supposed to give a press conference in Hong Kong this week to unveil the New York-based group's latest global survey, but he said on Sunday he was turned back by authorities at the city's airport.

The US has imposed new sanctions on Iran following missile strikes by it on bases housing US troops in Iraq.

The Pentagon chief suggested that Iran's government is under internal threat following its downing of a Ukrainian civilian airliner.

The region's devolved assembly at Stormont collapsed in January 2017 over a scandal caused by the runaway costs of a renewable energy scheme.

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also reacted to Iran's revelation and said that closure and accountability were needed after Iran admitted that it shot down a Ukranian plane.

All 176 people on board died when Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 went down near Tehran on Wednesday, shortly after Iran launched missiles at US forces in Iraq in response to the killing of a top Iranian general in a US drone strike in Baghdad.

After nearly two years of escalating conflict, US President Donald Trump and top Chinese trade envoy Liu He are due to sign a "phase one" agreement on January 15.

After pulling back from the brink of war, leaders in the US and Iran may well be evaluating what they have gained and lost in a conflict that has been waged for 20 months. But objective assessments might not be sunny, analysts say.

The mood in Buckingham palace was understood to be one of disappointment and even 'hurt', according to the BBC, while Thursday's newspapers were full of reports of a family 'split' and the queen's 'dismay'.

Ivanka Trump’s husband will now supervise her father’s re-election campaign, but he continues to weigh in with advice to the president on a range of other matters.

Volunteers kept some of them from asphyxiating by keeping them on land wrapped in wet blankets, or in shallow tubs of water with tiny life jackets.

In particular, Donald Trump encouraged NATO members the U.K., France and Germany – and also China and Russia – to change their policy and finally give up on the 2015 nuclear agreement negotiated by the Obama administration, but abandoned by Trump.