"On behalf of a grateful nation, Godspeed, John Glenn." : President Barack Obama
President-elect Donald Trump's transition team said on Monday it supports the project and would review it after he takes office.
Gabriel said that Trump and France's Le Pen were promising voters "a way back into a fairytale world" in which economic activity only happened within national borders but that history has shown such isolated economies have no chance to develop.
Obama said the US recognises role in the problem, embraces responsibility to do something about it.
A Portuguese socialist leader, Costa became the prime minister after President Anibal Cavaco Silva give the nod to the Socialist, Left Bloc and Green-led coalition to form the government.
Security and presidential sources said the explosion was an attack, adding it was not immediately clear whether it was a bomb or an explosive fired at the bus as it travelled along Mohamed V Avenue.
Alexander Smirnov, the deputy general director of Metrojet, said the cause of the crash "could only have been an external impact on the plane'' in the air.
The shootout between two biker gangs, which authorities say arose from an apparent confrontation between the Bandidos and the Cossacks motorcycle clubs, had resulted in the killing of nine people while over 20 were left injured.
Seventeen people were killed in a fire that raced through a packed karaoke bar early today on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, and 71 others were hospitalized for smoke inhalation.
The United States' decision to extend its military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2016 has thrown the war-ravaged country's government a much needed lifeline even as its dysfunctionality, blamed for the Taliban's revival, shows no signs of abating.
Turkey shot down a drone on Friday in an incident highlighting the dangers of multiple air combat operations over Syria, where government troops and their allies backed by Russian jets have launched an offensive against rebels near Aleppo.
Two powerful bombs exploded at a peace rally near the main train station in Ankara, killing at least 95 people and wounding 246 others.