To the northwest, troops and Hashid Shaabi fighters were clashing with Islamic State militants in the city's industrial zone, an official said.

The long-serving president of oil-rich Kazakhstan says he will stand again in snap April elections, and he is all but guaranteed to win.

Stoltenberg told a news conference he would welcome increased European investment in defense, but said duplication would be inefficient.

“Google is pretty good at storing things, but every organization should be able to keep its data around,” Tom Kershaw said.

The thieves were said to have waited for the security vehicles at the Avallon toll booth south-east of Auxerre, spraying gas at the drivers.

The genre-spanning lineup also includes new additions Counting Crows, Azealia Banks, Julio Bashmore and Benji B.

Foo Fighters have been confirmed to headline Glastonbury in June, and will be playing their own headline shows throughout the summer.

The representatives of some 31 political parties will participate in the parliamentary election to be held in Turkey on June 7, 2015.

In 2014, PACE rapporteur Robert Walter delivered a report on escalation of violence in Karabakh and “other occupied territories of Azerbaijan”.

In February, consumer prices were 0.3 percent lower than the year before, well off the bank's goal of inflation just under two percent.