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India has had a monopoly on Nepal's fuel supplies for decades but tensions over the blockade have prompted Kathmandu to turn to New Delhi's rival China.

Houston leaders warned that the area's bayous can only accommodate about five additional inches and acknowledged the math wasn't favorable.

A doctor in Multan's main Nishtar hospital confirmed that 45 to 50% of Bibi's body had been burnt in the attack, but said she was out of danger.

The two leaders also expressed concern over violence along the Line of Control, and pledged their support for confidence-building measures and "effective mechanisms" that are acceptable to both parties, it said.

The USD 10 billion TAPI, Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India, project is expected to bring Turkmen natural gas from its giant Dauletabad and Galkynysh gas fields to Pakistan and India. The project is likely to take off in December.

Jon Platt's seven-year-old daughter had a perfect attendance record before he took her on an eight-day trip to Disney World in April. It was the only time that they could go on holiday with 17 relatives, the court was told.

Chinese government will enact more support policies to lift the country's 70 million poor people above the poverty line by 2020, Xi pledged ahead of the 23rd International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on Saturday.

Tensions have mounted since China transformed reefs in the area, also claimed by several neighbouring countries, into small islands capable of supporting military facilities, a move that the US says threatens freedom of navigation.

The Supreme Court started regular hearing of the compliant in 2012 but only partially unfolded it by asking the government to start a proper probe into the scandal. After wasting another three years, the current government has asked FIA to probe it.

Maintaining that Choudhry did not claim that Pakistani authorities knew the whereabouts of Osama, he demanded an apology from CNN-IBN for airing out the wrong information.

Hundreds of pilgrims have also not been accounted for following the September 24 stampede at the Haj, one of the largest annual gatherings in the world.

Angus Deaton, who was honored for groundbreaking work on poverty and data collection, knew he had been on the shortlist but said he never thought winning would be very likely.

Less than two weeks ago Modi met President Barack Obama at the UN headquarters in New York on the sidelines of the annual General Assembly meeting. In the last one year the two leaders have met five times.

Murdoch's tweet was championing Ben Carson, a Republican who is the only African-American candidate in the presidential race.