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New Delhi: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Tehran over aggressions by what he called Iran and its "proxies" in Syria.

Saying he had "a message to the tyrants of Tehran" during a speech at the Munich Security Conference, he warned, "Do not test Israel's resolve."

He brandished a rectangular piece of dark green metal which he called "a piece of that Iranian drone, or what's left of it, after we shot it down."

Israel has said it shot down the drone on February 10 after it entered the country from Syria, and responded with a raid on what it said was the Iranian control systems for the craft in Syria.

New Delhi: In the United States, FBI has said, it had failed to act on a tip warning that the man accused of killing 17 people at a Florida high school possessed a gun, the desire to kill and the potential to commit a school shooting. 

The FBI said in a statement that a person described as someone close to accused gunman Nikolas Cruz, called an FBI tip line, weeks before the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, to report concerns about him. 

The agency said, the information should have been assessed as a potential threat to life and passed on to the FBI's Miami field office, but the protocols were not followed.

New Delhi: An Iranian passenger plane on a domestic flight crashed into the country's Zagros mountains on Sunday killing all 66 people on board. 

An airline official said the AsemanAirlines flight left Tehran's Mehrabad airport around 0800 local time for the city of Yasuj in Isfahan province and disappeared from the radar shortly after that. 

He told state broadcaster IRIB that the plane crashed into Dena mountain, part of the Zagros range, around 23 kilometres from Yasuj. He said, the plane was carrying 60 passengers, including one child, as well as six crew, he added. 

New Delhi: LokSabha Speaker SumitraMahajan has stressed upon the need to strengthen the legislature, executive and the judiciary in order to make democracy strong. 

In her address after inaugurating the 6th Conference of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) of India Region in Patna on Saturday, MrsMahajan spoke about the objectives and role of the Parliamentary Association body. 

She urged Legislative and Executive to give way for effective participation of civil societies in the democratic process.