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President Rafael Correa has said the quake caused $3 billion in damage and warned that the reconstruction effort will take years.

Twelve civilians were killed in Aleppo, according to a local civil defence official, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 13 others died in shelling on the rebel town of Douma, east of Damascus.

Lead organised crime prosecutor Javier Caraballo emerged from the offices after 27 hours of searching to say investigators had seized 100 computer servers that they would begin reviewing.

A Yougov poll released Thursday showed that Cameron was the second least trusted British politician on tax affairs, coming behind only his finance minister George Osborne.

Majority of these estimated 250,000 H-1B visa applications are "certainly" either by companies that have Indian owner like TCS or companies that have substantial operations or development centres in India like IBM, Stock said in response to a question.

Pakistan is opposed to nuclear and conventional arms race and strongly believes in peace and stability in the region, Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakaria said.

Bell AH-1Z Viper is a twin-engine attack helicopter based on the AH-1W SuperCobra, that was developed for the US Marine Corps.

Iceland Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson is under pressure to step down over financial records showing that he and his wife bought a company in the British Virgin Islands in 2007.

"This latest leak, potentially the biggest ever, is another nail in the coffin for anonymous companies and secrecy jurisdictions," said Porter McConnell, Director of the Financial Transparency Coalition.

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.

Mentioning that India has been troubled by the menace of terrorism for years, Modi stressed, "The rest of the world recognised the danger only after 9/11."

"India has been battling terrorism for decades. But the rest of the world recognized the danger only after 9/11", Modi said.

Belgian capital Brussels, which was attacked by suicide bombers last week, is the first leg of Modi's three-nation four-day tour which will take him to the US and Saudi Arabia.

Morsi was deposed by then army chief and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and since then the authorities have cracked down on all forms of dissent, including secularists and liberals.