There has been no official confirmation that passengers heard threats were made on board the aircraft.
Ms Sturgeon offered her condolences but waited for official confirmation before taking further action.
The French veterans minister Kader Arif confirmed the news, but then backtracked, saying there was no official confirmation.
Passengers said they had heard threats had been made on board, but there has not been any official confirmation.
The city council said it would be inappropriate to comment while it was still awaiting official confirmation from the government.
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Matt Perkins, of Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) where Mr al-Hilli worked, issued a statement following official confirmation of his death.
There were reports of another boatload of 46 Rohingya detained by the Thai military Friday, but there was no official confirmation.
There has been no official confirmation of a separate honours list but Whitehall sources have told the BBC it will happen.
The Shafiq campaign criticised the Islamist group for its victory announcement, saying it represented "bizarre behaviour" ahead of any official confirmation of the final result.
To date, there has been no official confirmation from any quarter of these accounts, which were sourced to unnamed intelligence or diplomatic personnel.
He said BDR chief Major General Shakil Ahmed had been shot in front of him, although there is no official confirmation of his death.
Mr Robertson asked the Speaker of the House if the MoD had said when an official confirmation would be made, but was told the answer was no.
"I am yet to receive any official confirmation of this appointment, so I am in no position to make any comments at the moment, " Robson told the BBC Sport website.
The official confirmation follows several days of speculation about an upsurge in diarrhoea in the capital, where the BBC understands a 46-year-old man died of suspected cholera earlier this month.
The outlines of the sector reorganization began to leak out long ago, but the official confirmation by the state's Xinhua news agency Friday fleshed out the substance of the reform.
There was no official confirmation, but the second Clinton administration plainly is not turning its back on Israeli-Palestinian peace-making, as some had feared and others, hardliners on each side, secretly hope.
There has been no official confirmation regarding Maree's whereabouts.
Armagh manager Joe Kernan confirmed to BBC that the appeals had been upheld but declined to make further comment as he said he was anxious to receive official confirmation before making any detailed statement.
Take this for whatever it's worth (which isn't a whole heck of a lot without any official confirmation from any of the parties involved), but the New York Post has it that the Justice Department's inquiry into Apple's iTunes practices may in fact be growing.
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" He had called another official for confirmation and this official said: "Oh, you know about it.
There has been no official account of the incident or confirmation of the number of casualties, but the government says it will carry out a full investigation.
The comment followed similar statements from officials in Poland and the Czech Republic -- where key elements of the system were to be located -- but was the first confirmation from an American official.
Since then, there has been no further confirmation from any North Korean official source.
When there is an opening for a post in a Cabinet-level department or agency that is subject to Senate confirmation, there are two ways an acting official can be named to fill this post.
Reuters reporters said they had seen an official statement and that it did not provide any details or confirmation of foreign direct investments of any magnitude into Brazil in the near future.
There was further confirmation that America's economy has entered a downturn after an initial official estimate that GDP had decreased by 0.3% in the third quarter at an annual rate.
The official line, that the suspects were on the point of fleeing, got some confirmation from the fact that one of them did indeed get away to Cyprus, where he was arrested and then, inexplicably, bailed.
Obama wants to ensure that his economic proposals don't get lost in the shuffle in the coming weeks as Congress goes to work on an immigration overhaul and the confirmation process for Obama's second-term Cabinet nominees, a White House official told reporters Sunday aboard Air Force One.
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