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| 03/10/2015 13:45 |
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Islamabad: Former military dictator Pervez Musharraf had threatened slain ex-premier Benazir Bhutto before her return to Pakistan in 2007 from self-imposed exile, an American journalist has testified, a charge denied by the former president.
| 02/10/2015 18:31 |
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San Francisco: At least 10 people, including the gunman, were killed and seven injured in a shooting at a college in the US state of Oregon on Thursday, police said.
| 02/10/2015 18:28 |
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Washington: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best colour and the highest resolution images yet of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, which show a surprisingly complex and violent history.
| 02/10/2015 18:25 |
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Washington: In a breather for Indian IT firms, the "discriminatory" USD 2,000 H-1B fee mostly imposed on them has now lapsed in a Republican-majority US Congress.
| 02/10/2015 18:22 |
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ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP): A gunman opened fire inside a classroom at a rural Oregon community college Thursday, killing at least nine people before dying in a shootout with police, authorities said. One survivor said he demanded his victims state their religion before he started shooting.
| 02/10/2015 13:27 |
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Washington: An American C-130J military transport plane crashed at the Jalalabad airport in Afghanistan early today, killing all on board, including six.
| 02/10/2015 13:02 |
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Washington: Pentagon officials urged the Russian military on Thursday to focus its airstrikes in Syria on Islamic State fighters rather than opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad, U.S. administration officials said.
| 02/10/2015 12:48 |
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United Nations: The United Nations on Thursday called on member states to improve older persons' accessibility to urban infrastructure, facilities and services as two phenomena -- rapid urbanization and ageing populations -- are combining to dramatically change the face of the world's cities in the coming decades.
| 02/10/2015 12:32 |
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Moscow: As Russian warplanes carried out a second wave of airstrikes Thursday in Syria, Moscow defended its military involvement against Western criticism of its intentions, saying it sees "eye-to-eye" with the U.S.-led coalition campaign on its targets in the country.
| 02/10/2015 12:27 |
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Washington: India has pledged to cut the intensity of its carbon emissions by 33-35 per cent and boost the renewable energy capacity to 40 per cent by 2030 in the target submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC) on Climate Change for a global climate pact.
| 02/10/2015 12:25 |
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United Nations: Pushing for UN Security Council reforms, India today said that the world body appears to have become an "ineffective institution" as it has failed to address the new challenges to international peace and security.
| 02/10/2015 12:10 |
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Moscow: Russian jets carried out a second day of airstrikes in Syria Thursday, but there were conflicting claims about whether they were targeting Islamic State and al-Qaeda militants or trying to shore up the defenses of President Bashar Assad.
| 01/10/2015 21:16 |
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Washington: As NASA is planning to send humans on Mars by 2030, its researchers back on the Earth are experimenting with astronauts for whom readapting to gravity and walking through the obstacle course after a deep space travel will not be an easy task.
| 01/10/2015 21:13 |
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Paris: Russia today insisted its warplanes in Syria were hitting at the same terrorists targeted by the US and contradicted American criticism that its military failed to coordinate the airstrikes, describing the allegations as a "war of disinformation."
| 01/10/2015 21:10 |
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Beijing: Another explosion rocked south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region early Thursday, a day after a series of letter bombs exploded killing seven people and wounding 51 others.
| 01/10/2015 13:23 |
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New York: India has rejected as “totally false” allegations that it blockaded a key trade checkpoint on the border with Nepal amid protests over that country’s new Constitution even as it emphasised that it is for the Nepalese people and parties to find a mutually acceptable solution. “Our stand is very very clear. We do not want to be prescriptive.
| 01/10/2015 13:18 |
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New York: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj met with her counterparts from neighbours Sri Lanka and Nepal.
| 01/10/2015 13:15 |
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New York/New Delhi: In a strong rebuttal of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's anti-India statement at the UN General Assembly, India on Thursday expressed regret that Pakistan has "once again chosen to misuse" the floor of the world body to "distort reality and portray a false picture of the challenges in our region".
| 01/10/2015 13:12 |
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Kabul: The Afghan special forces recaptured Kunduz city from Taliban militants on Thursday, the government said.
| 01/10/2015 13:01 |
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United Nations: India hit back strongly at Pakistan after it raked up the issues of Kashmir and LoC ceasefire violations at the UN, asserting that Islamabad is actually a victim of its own policies of breeding and sponsoring terrorism.
| 01/10/2015 12:58 |
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Kathmandu: Nepal's Deputy Prime Minister Bamdev Gautam has accused India of supporting the “blockade” by Madhesi parties protesting against the country's new constitution and said his government can make alternative arrangements for supplies via land from China as also by air and sea routes.
| 01/10/2015 12:51 |
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Tehran: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has threatened a “fierce” reaction if Saudi Arabia fails to promptly repatriate the bodies of more than 200 Iranian pilgrims killed in last week's hajj stampede.
| 01/10/2015 12:46 |
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United Nations: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held up the India-Bangladesh agreement on enclaves as an example for the world in solving problems.
| 30/09/2015 21:13 |
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Moscow: Russian military jets carried out airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria on Wednesday for the first time, the defense ministry said.
| 30/09/2015 19:46 |
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Moscow: Russian lawmakers voted unanimously Wednesday to let President Vladimir Putin send Russian troops to Syria.
| 30/09/2015 19:43 |
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Kathmandu: India on Wednesday expressed deep concern over growing anti-India sentiment in Nepal, including setting ablaze the Indian tricolour and effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying it "won't do good to both countries".
| 30/09/2015 19:40 |
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Beijing: A series of explosions targeting public buildings in a small city in southern China killed at least six people and injured dozens on Wednesday, officials and state media said.
| 30/09/2015 19:36 |
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Mina: A prominent Indian Islamic scholar, who was in Mina to perform Haj, has been reported missing since the deadly stampede broke out, the worst incident in 25 years to strike the annual pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia that had claimed the lives of at least 45 Indians.
| 30/09/2015 19:31 |
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Singapore: Two Singaporeans were detained under the Internal Security Act in August for planning to join terror outfit Islamic State (IS), said Singapore's ministry of home affairs (MHA) on Wednesday.
| 30/09/2015 15:04 |
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New York: The foreign ministers of BRICS countries endorsed United Nations Security Council reforms saying it was necessary to make it "more representative and efficient" putting China and Russia publicly on the side for reorganisation.
| 30/09/2015 15:01 |
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Moscow: Russia and the US agreed to continue cooperation in spite of differences in settling Syrian crisis, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
| 30/09/2015 14:55 |
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Beijing: China launched a new-generation satellite into orbit that will support its global navigation and positioning network on Wednesday.
| 30/09/2015 14:53 |
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New York: Reflecting the growing convergence of their interests in the Indo-Pacific region, India, US and Japan have agreed to work together to maintain maritime security through greater collaboration and strengthen regional connectivity.
| 30/09/2015 14:50 |
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Jerusalem: Israeli war fighters struck with air-to-ground missiles on military targets in the Gaza Strip in response to earlier rockets firing from Gaza into Israel, security officials said on Wednesday.
| 30/09/2015 14:48 |
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Kiev: Kiev is willing to work with India in business-to-business and government-to-government formats to promote the scale of bilateral agricultural cooperation, Ukraine's agriculture minister has said.
| 30/09/2015 14:42 |
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United Nations: US President Barack Obama reiterated his determination to destroy the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, but acknowledged that it will be a "long-term campaign".
| 30/09/2015 14:40 |
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Jakarta: Indonesia could learn much from the ‘Make in India’ initiative, a senior minister said on the day an Indian rocket hurled an Indonesian satellite into orbit.
| 30/09/2015 14:36 |
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Jakarta: Indonesia criticized Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for its slow response to the haj pilgrimage disaster in Mina, saying its diplomats only received full access to the dead and injured days after the crush.
| 29/09/2015 21:09 |
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Dhaka: An Italian aid worker has been shot dead in a high security diplomatic area here, the first attack in Bangladesh claimed by the dreaded Islamic State terror group that has prompted many western embassies to restrict the movements of their diplomats.
| 29/09/2015 21:07 |
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Kathmandu: With Indo-Nepal ties witnessing unease after the promulgation of the new Constitution here, India today hoped that "difficult days" would not affect their friendship as it welcomed the Nepal government's move to hold talks with agitating groups.
| 29/09/2015 16:34 |
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New Delhi: Facebook on Tuesday sought to clarify on the controversy over support for "Digital India" -- which chief executive Mark Zuckerberg had solicited -- also translating into support for the much-criticised Internet.og initiative of the social networking giant.
| 29/09/2015 16:24 |
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New York: The United States, Britain and France yesterday reaffirmed their support to India’s permanent membership of the UN Security Council as text-based negotiations to expand the most powerful wing of the world body begins in November.
| 29/09/2015 16:21 |
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New York: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held separate meetings with his British counterpart David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande during which a host of bilateral, regional and global issues were discussed.
| 29/09/2015 16:18 |
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New York: The US dollar fluctuated against most major currencies on Monday as uncertainties about the timing of interest rate hike still weighed on investors sentiment.
| 29/09/2015 16:16 |
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United Nations: Chinese President Xi Jinping announced here on Monday a series of major actions in support of the United Nations (UN) and its peacekeeping efforts.
| 29/09/2015 16:13 |
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New York: President Barack Obama today agreed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi that Kashmir is a bilateral issue to be resolved between India and Pakistan as they held talks here during which terrorism emanating from Pakistan also came up.
| 29/09/2015 16:07 |
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United Nations: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that India will contribute an additional battalion of 850 troops for UN peacekeeping operations, but also raised concern that troop contributing countries have no role in decision-making.
| 29/09/2015 14:17 |
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United Nations: Voicing America's resolve to wipe out "apocalyptic cult" like ISIS and al-Qaeda, President Barack Obama today said safe havens for terrorists will not be tolerated and called on Muslims worldwide to reject those who "distort Islam, to preach intolerance, and promote violence."
| 29/09/2015 14:15 |
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United Nations: US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin clashed on Monday over their competing visions for Syria, with Obama urging a political transition to replace the Syrian president but Putin warning it would be a mistake to abandon the current government.
| 29/09/2015 14:12 |
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Kathmandu: Cable TV operators in Nepal on Monday announced that they would indefinitely blackout all the Indian channels from Tuesday to protest blockade of a key trade checkpoint with India by agitators opposing Nepal's new Constitution.
| 29/09/2015 14:08 |
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Beijing: A Chinese government official said Monday that Hillary Clinton was "biased" on women's issues in China, while a newspaper compared the presidential hopeful to Donald Trump for her tweet saying it was "shameless" for China's president to preside over a U.N. conference on gender equality.
| 28/09/2015 16:40 |
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Sydney: The number of Australians fighting for the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq doubled in the past year but was not expected to continue to grow so rapidly, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said.
| 28/09/2015 16:36 |
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United Nations: Women's rights are human rights, German Chancellor said at global leaders' meeting on gender equality and women empowerment.
| 28/09/2015 16:32 |
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Male: Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom and First Lady Fathimath Ibrahim had a lucky escape today as an "explosion" occurred aboard the speedboat that they were travelling in after concluding their visit to Saudi Arabia to perform the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
| 28/09/2015 16:27 |
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United Nations: Over 150 world leaders will descend here today for the UN General Assembly's annual General Debate where issues like sustainable development, climate change, refugee crisis, terrorism and tackling ISIS would occupy the centrestage.
| 28/09/2015 16:14 |
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United Nations: US President Barack Obama committed the US to achieving global development goals at a United Nations summit, vowing to reduce inequality and create opportunities around the world.
| 28/09/2015 12:34 |
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San Jose: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said he dreamt of making India a $20 trillion economy and that he was pleasantly surprised by the change of perception about his country in a short period of time.
| 28/09/2015 12:16 |
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Silicon Valley: Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday visited the Google campus where he was given a tour of some of the latest products and forward-looking researches being done by the search engine giant.
| 27/09/2015 17:41 |
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Paolo Alto (California): Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his one-on-one engagement with the tech honchos of Silicon Valley with a 15-minute interaction with Apple chief executive Tim Cook.
| 27/09/2015 17:39 |
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United Nations: Chinese President Xi Jinping announced here on Saturday that China will provide $2 billion to support South-South cooperation, and called for an equitable development path for all countries.
| 27/09/2015 17:36 |
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New York: India, Japan, Germany and Brazil yesterday declared themselves as "legitimate" candidates for permanent membership of the UNSC as they pushed for its reform in a "fixed timeframe", with Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying the task should be accomplished immediately.
| 27/09/2015 17:32 |
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San Jose: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met representatives of the Sikh and Gujarati communities here at the start of his "tech-startup-energy-diaspora oriented" weekend visit to the Silicon Valley.
| 27/09/2015 17:29 |
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San Jose (California): Tesla Motors' iconic CEO Elon Musk on Saturday gave Prime Minister Narendra Modi a tour of the company's trend-setting electric car plant in Palo Alto as he arrived here for a tech tour of Silicon Valley.
| 27/09/2015 17:26 |
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Kathmandu: Baburam Bhattarai, Nepal's former prime minister and top Maoist leader sympathetic to Madhesis, on Saturday resigned as lawmaker and also quit the party to form his own political "force" amid differences with the major Nepalese political parties over the new Constitution.
| 27/09/2015 17:23 |
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Bangkok: Thai police said on Saturday that two men who were arrested in connection with August's deadly Bangkok bombing were the ones who carried out the attack and that authorities have gathered enough evidence to prosecute them.
| 27/09/2015 17:17 |
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New York: Making a strong pitch for reform of the UN Security Council, the G4 countries of India, Brazil, Germany and Japan on Saturday said that the international body needs to be reflective of the present geopolitical world order and not of the past century.
| 26/09/2015 22:08 |
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Beijing: Downplaying their differences over the disputed South China Sea and the cyber espionage claims, Chinese President Xi Jinping has described his talks with US counterpart Barack Obama as "fruitful" and said it sends a positive signal on the synergy between the two largest economies.
| 26/09/2015 22:05 |
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Mecca: The Imam of the Grand Mosque here has demanded that those responsible for the Mina stampede, the worst tragedy to hit the annual pilgrimage in 25 years, should be held accountable and asked Saudi authorities to ensure that such incidents are not repeated.
| 26/09/2015 22:00 |
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Bangkok: Thai police on Saturday said a man they had arrested over a deadly bombing at Bangkok's Erawan shrine is the actual culprit, the media reported.
| 26/09/2015 14:19 |
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New York/New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi put his autograph on what appeared to be an Indian flag evoking sharp criticism from the Congress but the government clarified that it was only a memento. The artwork has been taken for review.
| 26/09/2015 14:16 |
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New York: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has agreed to a request to write to US President Barack Obama on issuing of postage stamp on Diwali by the US Postal service, an individual behind the years long campaign has said.
| 26/09/2015 14:14 |
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Mina: The death toll of Indian pilgrims has risen to 18 in the grisly stampede at the Haj which has so far claimed the lives of 717 people, the worst tragedy to hit the annual pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in 25 years.
| 26/09/2015 14:11 |
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New York: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has acknowledged that the dreaded terror group Islamic State poses one of the greatest challenges facing the international community today and said there is a need to "delink terrorism from religion".
| 26/09/2015 14:08 |
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New York: A controversy erupted today when Prime Minister Narendra Modi autographed an Indian "flag" to be gifted to US President Barack Obama by celebrity chef Vikas Khanna, evoking sharp reactions after which the government insisted that it was not the national tricolor.
| 26/09/2015 14:06 |
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Berlin: Volkswagen's board has named Matthias Mueller, the head of the group's Porsche unit, to be the new CEO and to lead the world's top-selling automaker past a growing emissions-rigging scandal.
| 26/09/2015 14:02 |
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Kathmandu: The tension between India and Nepal over the Himalayan country's new Constitution led to the government summoning the Indian envoy to raise the issue of obstruction in the supply of essential goods coming from the Indian side.
| 25/09/2015 20:40 |
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Kathmandu: With hundreds of Nepal-bound cargo-bearing trucks halted at the border, Indian Ambassador here Ranjit Rae on Friday assured the Nepali authorities that India had not imposed any restriction on trade with the Himalayan nation.
| 25/09/2015 20:36 |
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Islamabad: Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had prior information of the 2008 terror attack at Mumbai, a new book has said.
| 25/09/2015 20:29 |
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New York: India has dismissed a Pakistani complaint to the UN Security Council about a wall it said New Delhi was building as an issue inspired by a terrorist.
| 25/09/2015 20:09 |
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San Francisco: Google, Apple, MicroSoft, Facebook, Qualcomm, Cisco... these are some topnotch companies, the chief executives of which will chat up Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he arrives to a packed itinerary on Saturday to push his pet project "Digital India" at the global high-tech epicenter of Silicon Valley in California.
| 25/09/2015 19:51 |
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New York: Media baron Rupert Murdoch today described the time spent with Prime Minister Narendra Modi here as a "great hour" during which they discussed role the media and entertainment industry can play in the development and generation of employment opportunities in India.
| 25/09/2015 19:11 |
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United Nations: Pakistan has complained to the UN Security Council about India's plans to construct a wall along the LoC allegedly to convert it "into a quasi international border", drawing a strong reaction from India which said it will respond to this at the "appropriate time".
| 25/09/2015 19:06 |
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New York: Describing India as the “biggest market”, America’s media honchos have called for speedier digitisation of the Indian system, including early expansion of the 4G network, during a one-of-its kind meeting with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
| 25/09/2015 18:26 |
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Jakarta: A strong quake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale jolted West Papua and eastern most parts of Indonesia on Thursday, but it did not have the potential to create a tsunami, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said here.
| 24/09/2015 20:52 |
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Colombo: Sri Lanka Navy on Thursday said it has arrested six Indian fishermen for allegedly fishing in Lankan waters. The Navy said it assisted the Sri Lankan coastal guards in the seas off Kovilan Point to nab the fishermen on Wednesday night.
| 24/09/2015 17:12 |
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New York: A group of activists, organisations and some members of the Patel community have launched a campaign in the US against Prime Minister Narendra Modi who arrived here today.
| 24/09/2015 17:07 |
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Riyadh: Here is a list of stampedes during the Haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. Over 2,700 people died in the past 25 years, with the latest stampede on Thursday leaving 310 people dead.
| 24/09/2015 17:04 |
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Beijing: China's military today asked the Indian Army not to take any "unilateral actions" affecting the stability of the border areas, days after the Indian side removed a Chinese-built hut in the Ladakh sector.
| 24/09/2015 16:58 |
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Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to raise Kashmir issue during his address at the UN General Assembly, a senior diplomat here said today.
| 24/09/2015 14:13 |
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New York: India will host a "very substantive and significant" summit meeting of the G-4 nations aimed at pushing for early UN Security Council reforms in the wake of the UN General Assembly adopting a decision to commence text-based negotiations on the long-pending reforms.
| 23/09/2015 21:16 |
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Mount Arafat: Over two million white-clad pilgrims, including more than 1.5 lakh Indians, today thronged Mount Arafat for the high point of Haj with Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti appealing to Muslims to unite against extremist groups like the IS which are trying to take Islam back into the 'Age of Ignorance'.
| 23/09/2015 20:35 |
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Dublin: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here today for his maiden day-long visit to Ireland enroute to the US.
| 22/09/2015 21:55 |
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Beijing, China: On his maiden State Visit to the US aimed at allaying concerns over faltering Chinese economy, President Xi Jinping today left for America, coinciding with that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trip during which the two Asian leaders will vie for investments and influence in their contrasting styles.
| 22/09/2015 21:52 |
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Kabul: Separate attacks in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday killed at least 15 Afghan troops, including 10 soldiers who died in an "insider attack" when a fellow soldier smuggled insurgents inside a checkpoint to kill his colleagues, officials said.
| 22/09/2015 21:50 |
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Kathmandu: Implementing Nepal's new constitution will be a challenging task, Finance Minister and Nepali Congress leader Ram Sharan Mahat has said.
| 22/09/2015 13:31 |
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Washington: India and the US have to resist the forces of intolerance and remain vigilant in their efforts to make the democracies stronger and more inclusive, Vice- President Joe Biden has said.
| 22/09/2015 13:28 |
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United Nations: With more than 200 million children unable to read and write globally, the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will focus on access to quality education, the executive director of Unicef has said.
| 22/09/2015 13:22 |
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Rio de Janeiro: The Brazilian government said that it would renew its special visas for Syrian refugees.
| 22/09/2015 13:16 |
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Beirut: The Islamic State jihadist group executed nine men and a boy it accused of being gay in central and northern Syria, a monitoring group said.
| 22/09/2015 13:03 |
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New York: Oil prices bounced back on Monday as data suggested that US crude output is dropping amid low prices.
| 22/09/2015 13:00 |
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Mytilene,Greece: Among the tens of thousands fleeing war and despair in the Middle East, one group feels a special relief in reaching Europe: those who have escaped areas ruled by Islamic State extremists and the harsh scrutiny of their religious police.
| 21/09/2015 21:08 |
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Beijing: India's alliance with Japan, Germany and Brazil to push for a permanent seat in an expanded UN Security Council is the country's "biggest mistake", according to an article in a state-run Chinese daily on Monday.
| 21/09/2015 21:01 |
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Islamabad: Information and evidence of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) base attackers' links within Afghanistan will be shared with the Afghan authorities, Pakistan's advisor on foreign affairs Sartaj Aziz has said.
| 21/09/2015 20:59 |
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Chicago: "I love the Muslims. They're great people," Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has said and stated that he would be open to having a member from the community in his Cabinet if he comes to power after 2016 polls.
| 21/09/2015 20:53 |
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Paris: The Eiffel Tower was shut to all visitors on Sunday after three "terrorist suspects" with "large rucksacks" were seen ascending France’s most popular tourist attraction.
| 21/09/2015 18:34 |
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Berlin: US Secretary of State John Kerry announced here that the US would increase the number of worldwide refugees it will take in over the next two years.
| 21/09/2015 18:32 |
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Islamabad: Pakistan is negotiating with Russia on acquiring an unspecified number of Su-35 'Flanker-E' multi-role fighter aircraft in potentially the largest military deal between the two Cold War-era adversaries, according to a leading defence weekly.
| 21/09/2015 18:29 |
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Athens: Greek Leftists of the radical Left SYRIZA party of former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras led in Sunday's snap national polls, according to estimates based on the first official results released by the interior ministry.
| 20/09/2015 19:47 |
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Kathmandu: Security was stepped up in Nepal on Sunday ahead of the proclamation of the Himalayan nation's new federal constitution following a decade of political infighting, with fresh threats and violence coming from smaller political parties and ethnic groups.
| 20/09/2015 19:43 |
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Beijing: China today condemned the brazen Taliban attack on a Pakistani air force camp near Peshawar that killed 42 people, including 29 security personnel, and vowed to support Pakistan's fight against terrorism.
| 20/09/2015 19:18 |
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London: British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and US Secretary of State John Kerry held talks showing different attitudes towards Russia's involvement in the Syria crisis.
| 20/09/2015 18:39 |
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Kabul: Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has strongly denied Pakistan's claim that the attack on the latter's air force base was planned and coordinated from Afghanistan.
| 20/09/2015 18:13 |
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Singapore: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today met Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam and discussed matters relating to taxation for foreign investment and detailed steps being taken by India to attract investment.
| 19/09/2015 19:59 |
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Beirut: Members of al-Qaida's affiliate in Syria have shot dead at least 45 soldiers captured from a base in northwestern Syria last week, activists said today.
| 19/09/2015 19:56 |
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Sanaa (Yemen): Saudi-led coalition's airstrikes against Yemen's Shiite rebels and their allies have killed 29 people, including civilians, in the capital Sanaa,security and medical officials there said today.
| 19/09/2015 19:53 |
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Dubai: Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, a son of Dubai's ruler and elder brother to the emirate's heir apparent, has died at age 33.
| 19/09/2015 19:49 |
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Kathmandu: India on Saturday expressed hope that Nepal's political leaders will display flexibility and maturity to ensure a durable and resilient constitution.
| 19/09/2015 19:46 |
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Washington: US President Barack Obama has nominated the acting undersecretary of the Army Eric Fanning to be the next Army secretary, a media report said on Saturday.
| 19/09/2015 19:43 |
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Islamabad: Pakistan is determined to continue war against terrorism with full zeal till its logical end, Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif has said.
| 19/09/2015 19:41 |
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United Nations: Peace and cooperation with Afghanistan will enable Pakistan to fully defeat the common threat from violent groups, Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan's ambassador to the UN has said.
| 19/09/2015 19:36 |
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New York: The US stocks suffered big losses on Friday as the Federal Reserve's decision to leave interest rates unchanged triggered increasing concerns about a slowdown in global growth.
| 19/09/2015 19:03 |
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Washington: The US Commission on Civil Rights urged the Barack Obama administration to "immediately" end the detention of undocumented families and minors.
| 19/09/2015 17:40 |
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Houston: A Muslim boy in the US arrested over a homemade clock on Friday said he will not return to the school where teachers got him arrested for an invention that "looked like a bomb" as more support gathered for the 14-year-old, with people questioning the real motive of his detention.
| 18/09/2015 21:05 |
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Istanbul: A four-year-old Syrian girl's body washed up on a beach in western Turkey on Friday, state media said, just weeks after images of drowned Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi shook the world.
| 18/09/2015 21:03 |
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Moscow: Russia would consider sending troops to fight in Syria if Damascus asked for them, a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin said Friday.
| 18/09/2015 21:01 |
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Washington: The current policy of 49 per cent FDI limit is not enough for transfer of high-tech defense technologies involving intellectual property rights, a top Pentagon official has said as India and the US are expected to hold talks on jet engine technology.
| 18/09/2015 12:59 |
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Cairo: At least 17 militants were killed and 62 suspects arrested on Thursday as part of a massive operation launched by the Egyptian security forces in the restive North Sinai province, a military official said.
| 18/09/2015 12:52 |
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Colombo: Sri Lanka today said it will go ahead with a domestic mechanism next month to probe war crimes during final phase of the battle against the LTTE but stopped short of backing a hybrid court with international judges proposed by the UN rights body in a damning indictment.
| 18/09/2015 12:47 |
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Bangkok: Thai police today issued an arrest warrant against a Pakistani man who is allegedly the kingpin of a Chinese Uighur trafficking gang in connection with the country's worst bomb blast that killed 20 people last month at a temple here.
| 18/09/2015 12:23 |
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Washington: Republicans and Democrats lambasted the Obama administration's strategy to combat the Islamic State group after a top US general admitted that just a handful of US-trained Syrian rebels are still on the battlefield fighting the militants.
| 18/09/2015 11:49 |
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New Delhi: One of the two Indians, who were abducted in Sirte in war-devastated Libya, has managed to flee from captivity.
| 17/09/2015 19:53 |
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Juba, South Sudan: A government official says 85 people were killed when a fuel truck exploded in South Sudan's rural Western Equatoria state on Wednesday.
| 17/09/2015 17:29 |
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Beijing: The US and China should be clear about the losses brought about by confrontation, so cooperation is the only option before the two, said a state-run Chinese dailyon Thursday.
| 17/09/2015 17:24 |
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Islamabad: A leading Pakistani daily on Thursday demanded that the ban on YouTube in Pakistan must be lifted and wondered whether it was "one of the most ridiculous bans slapped by the state".
| 17/09/2015 17:16 |
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United Nations: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that he backs the expansion of the Security Council to adapt to the dramatic changes in the world and the General Assembly was moving in the right direction towards that goal.
| 17/09/2015 16:33 |
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Santiago: At least five people were killed and a million people evacuated after a massive earthquake jolted Chile, shattering window panes, forcing people to run onto the streets in panic and triggering a tsunami alert for the country's coastline.
| 17/09/2015 16:23 |
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Moscow: Russia on Wednesday labelled the US-led international coalition against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group as inefficient and called for a real consolidation of forces under the aegis of the UN Security council.
| 17/09/2015 16:20 |
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Islamabad: A former Pakistani magistrate today testified in an anti-terrorism court hearing the 2008 Mumbai attack case that he had recorded the statement of an 'important witness' who said some of the seven accused had undergone training in a terror camp in Sindh province.
| 17/09/2015 16:17 |
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Moscow: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in an interview published on Wednesday by several Russian media outlets, blamed Europe for the refugee crisis since "it supported terrorism"
| 16/09/2015 17:00 |
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Brussels: European Union (EU) interior ministers will hold an emergency meeting on September 22 to cope with refugee crisis, officials said.
| 16/09/2015 16:44 |
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London: Indian-origin British MP Seema Malhotra has been appointed as the shadow chief secretary for Treasury by the newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
| 16/09/2015 16:28 |
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United Nations: The UN General Assembly on Tuesday opened its 70th session, the media reported.
| 16/09/2015 16:24 |
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San Francisco: Three people were killed when a plane crashed in Alaska on Tuesday, a media report said on Wednesday.
| 15/09/2015 21:07 |
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Roszke (Hungary): Declaring a state of emergency, Hungary sealed off its southern border with Serbia on Tuesday and detained those trying to enter illegally, aiming to shut down the flow of migrants pouring in. Chaos ensued at the border, as hundreds of migrants piled up in a no man's land, and Serbian officials reacted with outrage.
| 15/09/2015 20:24 |
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Seoul, South Korea: A day after threatening long-range rocket launches, North Korea declared Tuesday that it has upgraded and restarted all of its atomic fuel plants so it can produce more — and more sophisticated — nuclear weapons.
| 15/09/2015 20:08 |
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Washington: The Pentagon has established a first-ever country special cell to speed up its defence ties with India and accelerate the process of co-development and co-production of hi-tech military equipment in the country.
| 15/09/2015 20:04 |
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Riyadh: The Saudi government has issued a warning that people without haj permits would not be allowed to enter Makkah, the media reported on Tuesday.
| 15/09/2015 16:48 |
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New Delhi: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who arrived here on Monday on a three-day visit, is to hold talks, including on the fishermen issue, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Tuesday. Some agreements are also set to be inked.
| 15/09/2015 16:46 |
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Kabul: At least five civilians and an army soldier were killed when militants attacked a vehicle in Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Tuesday, the provincial government spokesman said.
| 15/09/2015 13:02 |
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Islamabad: Pakistan discussed the stalled Afghanistan reconciliation process with senior US officials.
| 15/09/2015 12:39 |
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United Nations: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been announced as one of the winners of the United Nations Champions of the Earth award in recognition of her country's initiatives to address climate change.
| 15/09/2015 12:23 |
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Islamabad: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday inaugurated five 'Pakistan-China Friendship Tunnels' built at the cost of about USD 275 million to restore a strategic road link to China via Gilgit-Baltistan.
| 15/09/2015 12:20 |
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United Nations: The UN General Assembly today adopted a negotiating text by consensus for the long-pending Security Council reforms, setting the stage for talks on the issue at its 70th session beginning tomorrow, boosting India’s bid for a permanent seat in the revamped world body.
| 15/09/2015 12:16 |
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Bangkok: A key suspect in last month's bombing at a Bangkok shrine that killed 20 people has fled to Turkey, Thai police said Monday, in another indication that the attack could be the work of members of China's ethnic Uighur minority who have sympathizers in Turkey.
| 14/09/2015 21:41 |
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Canberra: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was today dramatically ousted from power by challenger Malcolm Turnbull in an internal party vote just two years after his increasingly unpopular conservative government took office.
| 14/09/2015 21:32 |
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Tehran: Iran's embassy in Yemen will continue its usual operations, Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said here on Monday.
| 14/09/2015 20:39 |
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Kathmandu: Nepal's Constituent Assembly rejected calls to revert the Himalayan nation back to a Hindu state during voting Monday on a draft of the country's long-delayed new constitution, sparking violent protests.
| 14/09/2015 16:47 |
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Beijing: A top Chinese leader has spoken for the first time on the legitimacy of the Communist Party of China (CPC), a move that experts interpret as an important breakthrough in party discourse.
| 14/09/2015 16:38 |
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Washington: California Governor Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency after wildfires forced thousands of people to flee their homes in the north of the state, the media reported on Monday.
| 14/09/2015 15:41 |
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Kabul: Over 350 inmates escaped from a prison after an attack by Afghan Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Monday, an official said.
| 14/09/2015 14:11 |
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Islamabad: At least 15 militants were killed in an airstrike launched by Pakistani army in the country's tribal area of North Waziristan, an army statement said.
| 14/09/2015 14:09 |
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Athens: At least 38 refugees-Including 14 children- drowned after wooden boat containing more than 130 people capsized near the Greek Island of Farmakonissi.
| 14/09/2015 14:06 |
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Islamabad: At least 10 people died and 48 injured when an explosion occurred near a packed rickshaw stand in Multan on Sunday night.
| 14/09/2015 14:03 |
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Jeddah: Nine more Indians were today confirmed dead in Friday’s Grand Mosque crane collapse in Mecca in addition to two reported dead earlier. The incident, which occurred ahead of the annual Haj pilgrimage, has claimed 115 lives so far.
| 12/09/2015 21:24 |
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Jhabua (MP): At least 89 people were killed and nearly 100 injured today after a massive blast caused by mining explosives stored in a building ripped through a crowded area in Petlwad town here.
| 12/09/2015 19:24 |
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Cairo: Egypt's Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb and his Cabinet resigned Saturday amid a corruption investigation that led to the arrest of the agriculture minister last week.
| 12/09/2015 19:21 |
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Washington: Ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's US visit, President Barack Obama has said cyber-attacks emanating from China are "not acceptable" and will be treated as a "core national security threat".
| 12/09/2015 19:16 |
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Washington: The US House of Representatives voted against a resolution backing the nuclear agreement with Iran, in a symbolic vote started by congressional Republicans who object to the deal.
| 12/09/2015 19:14 |
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Washington: With the Republican controlled US Congress failing to scuttle the landmark Iran nuclear deal, the US said it was up to India how to work its way through the accord which "is truly an international architecture."
| 12/09/2015 19:11 |
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Riyadh: A towering construction crane toppled over on Friday during a violent rainstorm in the Saudi city of Mecca, Islam's holiest site, crashing into the Grand Mosque and killing at least 107 people ahead of the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage later this month.
| 12/09/2015 19:07 |
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Berlin: The Syrian family asks with wonder why they didn't die like thousands of others like them: killed by bombs in their native Damascus; drowned by the rough waves of the Mediterranean; or suffocated in overcrowded trucks speeding them through Europe.
| 12/09/2015 18:24 |
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London: Islamic State jihadists are manufacturing and using crude chemical weapons including mustard gas in Iraq and Syria, US officials have warned.
| 11/09/2015 21:16 |
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Saudi Arabia has sensationally banned the August edition of National Geographic which features the Pope and his renegade beliefs.
| 11/09/2015 20:53 |
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Geneva: The UN Children's Fund (Unicef) on Friday urged all European Union (EU) member states to fully protect refugee children.
| 11/09/2015 14:21 |
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New Delhi: India on Thursday asked Saudi Arabia to cooperate with the investigation against its Delhi-based diplomat, who has been accused of rape and torture by two Nepalese women working at his house in Gurgaon on the outskirts of the national capital.
| 11/09/2015 14:14 |
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Washington: With Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton's lead for party nomination in the 2016 presidential race falling to just 10 points, her advantage against the top Republican contenders has vanished, according to a new poll.
| 11/09/2015 14:11 |
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New York: In the wake of brutal assault on an elderly Sikh-American, an advocacy group here has asked lawmakers to support a resolution that honours victims of post-9/11 hate crimes, including Sikh-Americans, and to raise awareness about the community.
| 11/09/2015 14:06 |
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Washington: US President Barack Obama ordered the government to begin preparations to accept at least 10,000 Syrian refugees during the new fiscal year beginning on October 1, the White House announced on Thursday.
| 11/09/2015 14:04 |
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Washington: US Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked a resolution disapproving of the nuclear deal reached by world powers and Iran in July.
| 11/09/2015 14:02 |
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New York: Oil prices bounced on Thursday despite a government report showed that US crude stockpiles increased last week.
| 11/09/2015 13:58 |
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Cairo: The Islamic State terrorist group has indicated that Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe are committing a grave sin because "the land of the Cross is governed by laws of atheism and indecency".
| 11/09/2015 13:52 |
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Islamabad: Foreign Islamic militants have been able to secure Pakistani national identity cards for years in exchange for bribes as low as $100, giving them vastly greater freedom to operate, according to a report by Pakistan's top intelligence agency obtained by The Associated Press.
| 10/09/2015 20:51 |
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Kuala Lumpur: A cargo ship missing for a week with 14 crew members, including Indians, is feared to have been hijacked in the piracy-prone South China Sea, prompting Malaysian maritime authorities to launch a search on Thursday.
| 10/09/2015 20:43 |
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Bangkok: Thai police have sought help from Interpol to hunt the suspected Bangkok shrine bombing mastermind who they believe has fled to Bangladesh, the media reported on Thursday.
| 10/09/2015 20:29 |
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Washington: Outlining how as America's top diplomat she persuaded energy-hungry countries like India to back sanctions against Iran, Hillary Clinton says she would be willing to use force to keep Tehran from getting the bomb.
| 10/09/2015 20:19 |
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Islamabad: Pakistan has assessed that India has enough fissile material for more than 2,000 warheads, a media report said on Thursday.
| 10/09/2015 20:08 |
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Washington: US President Barack Obama along with Vice President Joe Biden and several of his Cabinet ministers are all set for a high-level engagement with the Indian leadership in a series of meetings later this month.
| 10/09/2015 13:29 |
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Washington: NASA's Dawn spacecraft has shown the brightest spots on the dwarf planet Ceres that are gleaming with mystery.
| 10/09/2015 13:27 |
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Chicago: An elderly Sikh-American man was brutally injured and called "terrorist" and "Bin Laden" in an apparent hate crime case in Chicago, just days before the US commemorates the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
| 10/09/2015 13:25 |
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Cairo: The Islamic State group on Wednesday claimed to be holding a Norwegian man and a Chinese consultant hostage and demanded ransom for their release.
| 10/09/2015 13:21 |
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Tripoli: A car bomb explosion hit the Libyan capital Tripoli on Wednesday near al-Hadba prison where Gaddafi officials are detained, including his son Saadi, according to a security source.
| 10/09/2015 13:18 |
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Damascus: The Islamic State (IS) militants captured a missile battalion in the military airbase of the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zour, the group claimed on Wednesday.
| 10/09/2015 13:15 |
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Islamabad: Seeking to ease Indo-Pak tensions after a war of words, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today said Pakistan's nuclear weapons were "not against anyone" and asserted that his country would maintain minimum credible deterrence for strategic stability in South Asia.
| 10/09/2015 13:07 |
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New Delhi: India has sought participation of the Japanese government and companies in modernisation and technology up-gradation of the Indian Railways, an official said on Wednesday.
| 10/09/2015 13:05 |
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Houston: All 172 people on board a British Airways plane had a miraculous escape today after an engine of the aircraft burst into flames on the runway just before taking off from Las Vegas to London.
| 10/09/2015 13:02 |
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Kabul: At least two children were killed and three others were injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province on Wednesday, a local official said.
| 10/09/2015 11:46 |
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Johannesburg: The US Embassy in South Africa warned in a statement released on Tuesday of a possible terrorist attack by extremists against US interests in South Africa.
| 06/09/2015 20:53 |
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Seoul: Ten people died and eight others were believed to be missing after a boat carrying passengers on a fishing trip capsized off South Korea's southern coast, officials said Sunday.
| 06/09/2015 20:47 |
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Islamabad: Pakistan is a responsible nuclear power, and wants peaceful relations with all neighbours, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said.
| 06/09/2015 17:46 |
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Colombo: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's first overseas visit since assuming office will be to India next week during which he will hold extensive talks with the Indian leadership including on the sensitive fishermen issue and a comprehensive economic pact.
| 06/09/2015 17:43 |
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Canberra: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Sunday announced that he is prepared to accept more refugees from war-torn Syria, but within the current humanitarian intake.
| 06/09/2015 17:40 |
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Seoul: Nine people died after a fishing boat capsized off South Korea’s southern coast, maritime officials said Sunday.
| 06/09/2015 17:36 |
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Dublin: Irish naval vessel rescued 329 people from three vessels in the Mediterranean Sea, the military said.
| 06/09/2015 17:33 |
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New Delhi: A city-bound British Airways flight with over 100 passengers onboard was diverted to Frankfurt after the pilot reported a snag in the Boeing 777-236 (ER) aircraft.
| 05/09/2015 20:57 |
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Washington: Faced with a rate of 64.2 reported rapes per 100,000 people -- more than double the US national average of 25.2 - the US island territory of Guam plans to chemically castrate convicted sex offenders.
| 05/09/2015 20:54 |
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Damascus: At least 47 militants were killed in rebel-on-rebel battles in Syria's northern province of Aleppo on Saturday, a monitor group reported.
| 05/09/2015 20:51 |
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United Nations: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will host a ministerial meeting of the Middle East Quartet later this month aimed at working on a diplomatic solution for the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
| 05/09/2015 20:47 |
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London: Queen Elizabeth is expected to make a rare public speech thanking her British and Commonwealth subjects for 63 years of support when she becomes the counrty's longest-reigning monarch on September 9.
| 05/09/2015 20:44 |
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Beijing: The US is "mainly responsible for all the mess" that Europe is facing due to the massive influx of refugees, Chinese news agency Xinhua said in a commentary on Saturday.
| 05/09/2015 14:20 |
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Karachi: Pakistan "lost terribly in the 1965 war" with India, a Pakistani historian has admitted.
| 05/09/2015 14:17 |
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Beijing: China's new move to down size its 2.3-million strong military will result in laying off of about 1.70 lakh officers as the world's largest army plans to scrap two of its existing seven commands and three corps to stream line forces.
| 05/09/2015 14:14 |
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Washington: The US and Saudi Arabia will continue security cooperations in the Middle East "in particular to counter Iran's destabilizing activities", the White House said late Friday.
| 05/09/2015 14:10 |
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Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin held the US responsible for the refugee crisis in Europe.
| 05/09/2015 13:35 |
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Washington: Hillary Clinton on Friday refused to apologise for using a private email account and server, but said she was sorry for causing confusion among the voters.
| 05/09/2015 13:29 |
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Damascus: At least 26 people were killed and 22 others injured when two explosions rocked the city of Swaida in southern Syria.
| 05/09/2015 13:26 |
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Budapest,Hungary: Hundreds of refugees frustrated at being stuck at two train stations in Hungary set off on foot for Austria Friday, one group forming a line nearly a half-mile long as they streamed out of Budapest, the other breaking out of a train near a migrant reception center and then running toward the West after overwhelming police.
| 05/09/2015 13:22 |
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Damascus: A Syrian toddler whose lifeless body was found on a Turkish beach was laid to rest on Friday along with his brother and mother, the media reported.
| 05/09/2015 13:15 |
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Geneva: It is necessary to relocate 200,000 refugees who have arrived in Europe, while the continent failed to find "an effective common response to the crisis that only benefited the networks of traffickers", the UN said on Friday.
| 05/09/2015 13:09 |
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Damascus: The Islamic State (IS) terror group has blown up three funerary towers at the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, an antiquities expert said on Friday.
| 04/09/2015 14:30 |
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New York: A drone buzzed over the court during a U.S. Open match in Louis Armstrong Stadium on Thursday night and crashed into an empty section of seats.
| 04/09/2015 14:27 |
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Washington: The US Department of Defense said it has directed an immediate safety review at all nine labs and facilities involved in the handling of select agents and toxins.
| 04/09/2015 14:10 |
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Washington: To the great relief of the Republican leadership, Donald Trump signed on Thursday a loyalty pledge saying he will only run as a Republican candidate in the 2016 election.
| 04/09/2015 13:58 |
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Washington: In a new Islamic State video, jihadist fighters are shown flaunting the American M16 rifles that may have been seized by them from Iraqi soldiers or found in weapons caches dropped by the US.
| 04/09/2015 13:55 |
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Paris: French investigators have formally identified a washed-up piece of airplane debris found in July on a remote island in the Indian Ocean as part of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 that disappeared more than a year ago with 239 people aboard.
| 04/09/2015 13:51 |
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Colombo: Sri Lanka's Parliament on Thursday recognized an ethnic Tamil lawmaker as the opposition leader for the first time in decades in what is seen a positive step toward postwar reconciliation with the minority community.
| 03/09/2015 20:29 |
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Washington: The US has pushed top Pakistani leadership to adopt "an aggressive approach" against terrorist safe havens inside the country and warned that continuation of the current policy would adversely affect its ties with India and Afghanistan, a top Obama administration official has said.
| 03/09/2015 20:14 |
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Washington: In May 2000, the then Pervez Musharraf regime in Pakistan told the US that it would not push for UN Security Council resolution on Kashmir, acknowledging that it would not be helpful in resolving the decade-old Kashmir issue with India, according to a US cable.
| 03/09/2015 20:10 |
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United Nations: Russia has said it does not foresee “a historic compromise” being reached in the near future on admitting new permanent members in the UN Security Council, an assessment that does not bode well for India’s bid for a permanent seat in a reformed Council.
| 03/09/2015 19:38 |
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Bangkok: Thai authorities have arrested a man for his suspected involvement in the deadly August 17 bombing at a shrine here that killed 20 people, the media reported on Thursday.
| 03/09/2015 19:33 |
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Sanaa: Nearly 30 people were killed and 100 others injured when two suicide bombings targeted a Houthi-controlled mosque in Yemen's capital Sanaa.
| 03/09/2015 19:29 |
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Washington: NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory - launched in January this year to map global soil moisture and detect whether soils are frozen or thawed on the Earth - has lost its radar which can no longer return data.
| 03/09/2015 19:23 |
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Beijing: China launched a major military parade through Beijing on Thursday to commemorate Japan's World War II defeat while underlining President Xi Jinping's determination to make his country Asia's pre-eminent power.
| 03/09/2015 19:18 |
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London: The Islamic State terror group is in possession of deadly mustard gas stockpiles and could smuggle it out of Syria to target Europe, according to a media report.
| 03/09/2015 19:15 |
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United Nations: Strongly rejecting Pakistan's call for plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir, India has asserted that the state is an integral part of the country and its citizens have chosen a democratically-elected state government as it lambasted Islamabad for raising the issue at the UN.
| 03/09/2015 19:13 |
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Washington: Indian American Nikki Haley has said she will consider a vice presidential ticket next year if given a chance but is currently focused on her job as Governor of the US state of South Carolina.
| 03/09/2015 19:10 |
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Islamabad: Pakistan has said that its armed forces are capable of defending its territorial integrity against any aggression, particularly from India.
| 03/09/2015 19:01 |
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Damascus: The Jaish al-Fateh rebel group unleashed a wide-scale offensive against two besieged Shia towns in northwestern Syria.
| 03/09/2015 18:49 |
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Washington: In a major victory for US President Barack Obama, Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland announced support for the Iran nuclear deal on Wednesday, providing the White House the votes it needs to prevent Republicans from scuttling the agreement.
| 03/09/2015 18:35 |
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Islamabad: At least 31 militants were killed yesterday when Pakistani fighter jets targeted their hideouts in the restive northwestern tribal region, the military said.
| 02/09/2015 20:08 |
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New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday awarded four-year jail terms to four MCD officials convicted in the Commonwealth Games (CWG) street lights scam.
| 02/09/2015 20:05 |
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Imphal: Curfew was relaxed on Wednesday in riot-hit southern part of Manipur's Churachandpur district to enable residents to buy essential commodities.
| 02/09/2015 19:52 |
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Guwahati: The US "strongly supports" India's bid for a permanent seat in an expanded UN Security Council, its Ambassador to India Richard Verma said here today.
| 02/09/2015 19:45 |
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New Delhi: In a veiled attack on China, Australian Defence Minister Kevin Andrews today strongly opposed the use of "intimidation and aggression" in the disputed South China Sea and said India's role was critical in stability of Indian Ocean region and wider global order.
| 02/09/2015 19:41 |
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Bangkok: The probe into Thailand's deadliest bombing at a Brahma temple here gathered momentum today, with the police announcing that the fingerprints of a suspect arrested near the Cambodian border matched those found on a bottle containing bomb-making materials.
| 02/09/2015 19:37 |
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Washington: Pakistan backed away from supporting Harakat-ul-Ansar terror group which it used as a proxy against India in the late 90s fearing that its backing would land it on the US list of "State Sponsors of Terrorism",according to recently declassified CIA documents.
| 02/09/2015 14:06 |
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Islamabad: Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has every right to be outraged by the Indian aggression, said a leading Pakistani daily which, however, warned that "his allusions to the possible use of nuclear weapons time and again, and especially when tensions are so high, are not needed and must be avoided".
| 02/09/2015 14:04 |
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Washington: Pakistan no longer enjoys international support on Kashmir and is unlikely to get an approval for a referendum in the region from the UN Security Council, a former Pakistani envoy to the US has said.
| 02/09/2015 14:02 |
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Paris: Director-General of Unesco Irina Bokova on Tuesday "expressed profound dismay" and condemned the destruction of the temple of Bel in Syria's Palmyra.
| 02/09/2015 14:00 |
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Berlin: The crash site of Malaysian Airline' s MH370 plane could be in the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean, more northerly than previously thought, German marine researchers said in Kiel on Tuesday.
| 02/09/2015 13:57 |
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Islamabad: At least six people were killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region of North Waziristan on Tuesday.
| 01/09/2015 19:55 |
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New Delhi: Essential services are likely to be impacted tomorrow with 10 central trade unions going ahead with one-day nationwide strike to protest against changes in labour laws even as BJP-backed BMS and National Front of Indian Trade Unions have pulled out.
| 01/09/2015 17:06 |
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Washington: Top Taliban leader Mullah Omar was sheltered by Pakistan’s powerful spy agency ISI after the outfit’s leadership fled from Afghanistan in 2001, according to an email received by former secretary of state Hillary Clinton during her tenure.
| 01/09/2015 17:04 |
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Washington: The US has said that the threat from terrorist groups, in particular the Haqqani network, continues to emanate from inside Pakistan, dismissing top Pakistani diplomat's claim that the dreaded group responsible for audacious attacks in Afghanistan has been wiped out.
| 01/09/2015 17:01 |
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Washington: NASA and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have launched a joint project to strengthen regional environmental monitoring in five countries in the lower Mekong region of Southeast Asia.
| 01/09/2015 11:41 |
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Rameshwaram: Sixteen fishermen from Jagadhapattinam in Pudukottai district were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy on charges of violating the International Maritime Boundary Line this morning, Fisheries Department officials said here.
| 01/09/2015 11:38 |
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Imphal: Three people died and many others sustained injuries in Manipur following a mob violence that erupted over three bills passed in the state assembly, officials said on Tuesday.
| 01/09/2015 11:26 |
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Kiev, Ukraine: As lawmakers took up a measure to give greater powers to separatists in eastern Ukraine, nationalist protesters clashed with police outside parliament on Monday, and the Interior Ministry said one officer was killed in a grenade blast and more than 100 were wounded.
| 01/09/2015 11:23 |
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Damascus: An array of Jaish al-Fateh jihadi groups advanced toward a besieged Shia town amid relentless shelling.
| 01/09/2015 11:16 |
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Karachi: Loud explosions and gun fire erupted near a private university here on Monday night, a media report said.
| 01/09/2015 11:13 |
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Baghdad: The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group aired a video of burning four Iraqi Shia militiamen said to be in revenge for earlier burning of Sunni people by government allied forces.
| 01/09/2015 11:06 |
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Islamabad: Germany on Monday said that "deep issues" like Kashmir should be a part of the talks between India and Pakistan as dialogue is the only way to move forward, days after the cancellation of NSA-level talks over India's insistence that Kashmir cannot be on the agenda.
| 01/09/2015 10:59 |
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Beirut: Islamic State militants in Syria severely damaged the Bel Temple, considered one of the greatest sites of the ancient world, in a massive explosion Sunday, activists said.
| 31/08/2015 17:17 |
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Islamabad: Nine people were arrested on Monday in connection with an attack on a Pakistan airport, the media reported.
| 31/08/2015 13:30 |
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Washington/Islamabad: In a blunt message, the US has asked Pakistan to intensify efforts to counter terrorist sanctuaries inside its borders and take concrete steps against the dreaded Haqqani network responsible for major attacks on American installations in Afghanistan.
| 31/08/2015 13:27 |
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Damascus: The Islamic State (IS) militants destroyed parts of a famous ancient Roman temple in the historic city of Palmyra in central Syria, a monitor group reported on Sunday.
| 31/08/2015 13:23 |
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Maiduguri, Nigeria: The governor of Borno state said Sunday that Islamic extremist group Boko Haram killed 56 villagers in a remote area of the region, as the government warned that the extremists are trying to extend their violent campaign.
| 31/08/2015 13:11 |
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Dubai United Arab Emirates: A large fire broke out Sunday in the basement of a sprawling residential complex in Saudi Arabia's oil-rich east, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 200, officials in the kingdom said.
| 29/08/2015 19:20 |
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Bangkok: A suspected Turkish national resembling the prime suspect in the Brahma Temple bombing was today arrested and several bomb-making tools and materials seized in the first detention in Thailand’s worst attack that killed 20 people and injured over 100 others.
| 29/08/2015 13:48 |
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Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday rejected as "utterly baseless" a report by leading American thank-tanks which said that Islamabad has the fastest growing nuclear arsenal in the world.
| 29/08/2015 13:38 |
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Islamabad: Pakistan has accused India of sabotaging peace efforts and putting the regional security and stability at stake by objecting to include Kashmir issue in the bilateral dialogue.
| 29/08/2015 13:32 |
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Bauchi: Boko Haram militants killed 28 on Friday in a series of raids on remote farming and fishing villages in Northeast Nigeria, according to members of a civilian defence group.
| 29/08/2015 13:29 |
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Hungary: Three people believed to be part of a human smuggling operation were arrested overnight in Hungary in connection with the deaths of 71 migrants who were found in a refrigerated truck abandoned on Austria's main highway, law enforcement officials said Friday.
| 29/08/2015 13:24 |
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Washington: The Islamic State group hacker killed in a U.S. airstrike in Syria this week had been recruiting sympathizers in the West to conduct "lone wolf" terrorist attacks, and his death eliminates a "significant threat" to the U.S., a military official said Friday.
| 28/08/2015 13:34 |
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New York: Oil prices rebounded strongly on Thursday as US economic data topped investors' expectations.
| 28/08/2015 13:32 |
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Islamabad: India is the only external threat for us, Pakistani military has told a senate defence committee.
| 28/08/2015 13:18 |
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Washington: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday went on the offensive and accused Republican presidential candidates of holding views on women's health issues as those of "terrorist groups".
| 28/08/2015 13:14 |
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Damascus: At least 52 people were killed in clashes on Thursday between several Islamist factions and Islamic State (IS) in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
| 28/08/2015 13:11 |
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Washington: Far outpacing India in the development of nuclear warheads, Pakistan could have at least 350 nuclear weapons within a decade, making it the world's third largest nuclear arsenal, according to a new report.
| 28/08/2015 13:07 |
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Washington: As a heartbroken President Barack Obama renewed a call for gun control in the wake of the killing of two journalists on live TV, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump instead favoured addressing mental health issues.
| 27/08/2015 18:11 |
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Houston: Three Indians and as many persons of Indian-origin are among 29 people, who have been named as Fellows this year by the American Society for Metals, for their contributions in the field of materials science and engineering.
| 27/08/2015 18:05 |
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Athens: Greece's prime minister Alexis Tsipras, ahead of next month's early national election, said on Wednesday he will not enter a coalition with the main center-right and centrist opposition parties even if he needs their backing to govern.
| 27/08/2015 18:02 |
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Mexico City: Nine people died in drug-related shootouts in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, officials said.
| 27/08/2015 18:00 |
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Rome: A Swedish rescue crew cut up the deck of a migrant boat north of Libya today to make a grisly discovery in the hull: The corpses of 51 migrants who died making the dangerous Mediterranean crossing in hopes of reaching Europe.
| 27/08/2015 17:58 |
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London: A 16-year-old British schoolgirl arrested along with a teenage boy allegedly involved in a plot to attack police officers at a parade in Australia has pleaded guilty to two terror charges, including possessing a "recipe for explosives".
| 27/08/2015 14:09 |
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Riyadh: Saudi officials said that King Salman will visit the United States early next month for the first time since ascending the throne and will meet with President Barack Obama.
| 27/08/2015 14:07 |
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Baghdad: At least 22 militants of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group were killed on Wednesday in airstrikes in Iraq's western province of Anbar, a provincial security source said.
| 26/08/2015 13:28 |
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Melbourne: A gunman fired a shot through the front window of a crowded Indian restaurant at Harris Park in Sydney’s west, the second such incident in last four months in the area.
| 26/08/2015 13:25 |
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New York: An Indian-origin former investment bank analyst and his two friends were taken into federal custody on charges of indulging in an insider trading scheme that netted more than USD 600,000 in illicit profits.
| 26/08/2015 13:21 |
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Rostov-on-don, Russia: A Russian military court convicted a prominent Ukrainian filmmaker on Tuesday of conspiring to commit terror attacks and sentenced him to 20 years in prison in what critics called a politically motivated show trial.
| 25/08/2015 21:37 |
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Beirut: The Islamic State group released propaganda images Tuesday that purport to show militants laying explosives in and then blowing up the 2,000-year-old temple of Baalshamin in Syria's ancient caravan city of Palmyra.
| 25/08/2015 14:34 |
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United Nations: UN chief Ban Ki-moon's envoy for youth will begin a visit to India today focussing on highlighting future youth strategies to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and will hold talks with senior political leadership and youth and civil society groups.
| 25/08/2015 14:30 |
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Cape Canaveral: A package was delivered at the International Space Station. A package of spirits -- not the ghostly ones -- but the kind you drink.
| 25/08/2015 14:25 |
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Ankara: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office says the Turkish leader has called a new election a day after a deadline passed for forming a new government following a June election.
| 25/08/2015 14:19 |
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Manila: A United States Marine charged with murder testified in a Philippine court on Monday that he choked a Filipino transgender unconscious after discovering that she had no female organ post-oral sex in a local motel, but stressed that he didn't kill her, according to his lawyer's statement.
| 25/08/2015 14:15 |
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Seoul: North and South Korea on Monday wrapped up marathon talks aimed at defusing a crisis that pushed the two rivals to the brink of armed conflict.
| 25/08/2015 14:12 |
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Toronto: The hack of the cheating website Ashley Madison has triggered extortion crimes and led to two unconfirmed reports of suicides, Canadian police said Monday.
| 24/08/2015 21:14 |
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Kathmandu: Ethnic protesters demanding statehood in western Nepal attacked police with spears and knives Monday, leaving at least six officers and three protesters dead and many others injured.
| 24/08/2015 21:10 |
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London: Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered Britian's intelligence network and special forces to redouble their efforts to kill or capture a London-born IS terrorist referred to as 'Jihadi John', days after he warned to return to the UK to continue "cutting off heads".
| 24/08/2015 21:06 |
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Hamburg: A UN tribunal today asked both India and Italy to “suspend” all court proceedings involving two Italian marines charged with killing of two Indian fishermen in 2012 and also refrain from initiating new ones that might “aggravate or extend” the dispute.
| 24/08/2015 21:01 |
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New Delhi: Israeli Navy Chief Vice Admiral Ram Rutberg today held talks with top Indian defence officials here as the two countries look at deepening the bilateral defence ties.
| 24/08/2015 13:59 |
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Washington: Gas giants such as Saturn and Jupiter may have been built by centimetre-sized pebbles that formed 4.5 billion years ago from dust and ice swirling around the newborn Sun, a new study suggests.
| 24/08/2015 13:57 |
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Beirut: Activists say Islamic State militants have destroyed a temple at Syria's ancient ruins of Palmyra.
| 24/08/2015 13:54 |
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Washington: The Pentagon said that a US Army base in Japan was hit by an explosion and fire was triggered.
| 24/08/2015 13:48 |
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Baghdad: At least 23 Iraqi soldiers and government-allied militiamen were killed today in an attack by Islamic State militants in the turbulent Anbar province west of Baghdad, Iraqi military and police officials said, in the second heavy death toll suffered by the Iraqi military and its allies in recent days in the vast Sunni region. The officials said today’s attack, which killed 17 soldiers and six Sunni militia fighters, took place in the rural district of Jaramshah, north of Anbar’s provincial capital, Ramadi.
| 23/08/2015 20:08 |
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Tehran, Iran: British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond reopened the British Embassy in Tehran on Sunday, nearly four years after it was closed following an attack by hard-liners.
| 23/08/2015 18:56 |
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Washington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made “remarkable” progress in his first 15 months in office by rolling out a red carpet for foreign companies, but the infamous red tapism of Indian bureaucracy continues to pose hurdles to investments, the White House has said.
| 23/08/2015 18:53 |
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Islamabad: Both Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan and Narendra Modi of India are to blame for the collapse of the NSA level talks, a Pakistani daily said on Sunday.
| 23/08/2015 18:50 |
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Kabul: A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy traveling through a crowded neighborhood in Afghanistan’s capital yesterday,killing at least 12 people, including three American civilian contractors for the international military force, authorities said.
| 23/08/2015 18:46 |
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Arras, France: One serves in the Air Force, another recently served in Afghanistan in the National Guard, another is studying physical therapy in California — and all three Americans are being hailed as heroes for tackling and disarming a gunman they happened to encounter on a high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris.
| 23/08/2015 18:43 |
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Kabul, Afghanistan: A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy traveling through a crowded neighborhood in Afghanistan's capital Saturday, killing at least 10 people, including three foreign contractors, authorities said.
| 23/08/2015 18:35 |
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London: British police say a single-seater jet has crashed at an airshow in southern England, causing several casualties.
| 23/08/2015 18:32 |
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Colombo: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has "encouraged" Sri Lanka's newly-elected Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to seize the opportunity for lasting peace in the country and wished him well in achieving reconciliation with the minorities.
| 22/08/2015 18:14 |
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Beijing: Authorities have raised the death toll to 121 in the chemical warehouse explosion in the northern Chinese port of Tianjin, while another 54 people remain unaccounted for.
| 22/08/2015 18:11 |
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New York: NASA engineers have started working on the first of eight micro-satellites under the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) project.
| 22/08/2015 13:51 |
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Washington: The Pentagon said on Friday that initial tests indicated that the militant group Islamic State (IS) may have used a chemical weapon against Kurdish forces in Iraq earlier this month.
| 22/08/2015 13:48 |
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Washington: A preliminary autopsy on the 18-year-old African American youth killed by St. Louis police showed the cause of death was a single shot to the back, the Missouri city's top police official said.
| 22/08/2015 13:45 |
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Paris: A gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris Friday, wounding three people, two of them critically, officials said.
| 22/08/2015 13:41 |
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Washington: The Pentagon says one U.S. military service member was injured Friday, apparently while trying to subdue a gunman who opened fire on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris.
| 22/08/2015 13:36 |
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Oak Bluffs: The Obama administration says the No. 2 leader of the Islamic State militant group was killed in a US military airstrike that took place in Iraq earlier this week.
| 21/08/2015 19:07 |
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Pyongyang, North Korea: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday declared his frontline troops in a "quasi-state of war" and ordered them to prepare for battle a day after the most serious confrontation between the rivals in years.
| 21/08/2015 18:56 |
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Tianjin: Four new fires burned on Friday within a disaster zone in China’s Tianjin port where massive warehouse explosions more than a week ago killed at least 114 people and contaminated the area with toxic chemicals.
| 21/08/2015 18:52 |
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Washington: Amid reports that US President Barack Obama has invited Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for a meeting at the White House in October, a top American official has said this was "news" to him.
| 21/08/2015 18:49 |
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New York: Authorities say three people were injured when a gas line exploded during construction at a high school in the Bronx.
| 21/08/2015 18:47 |
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Colombo: Sri Lanka's new prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, was sworn in Friday and the island nation's two major political parties — formerly bitter rivals — signed an agreement to work together in the new parliament.
| 21/08/2015 18:43 |
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Islamabad: Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khurshid Shah has expressed concern over "growing Indian aggression" against Pakistan and asked the government to take it seriously.
| 21/08/2015 18:39 |
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Rochester, N.Y.: A gunman shot into a crowd that gathered outside the Rochester Boys and Girls Club after a basketball game, killing three people and wounding four others in what Gov. Andrew Cuomo called "a deplorable act of violence."
| 21/08/2015 18:36 |
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Prague: Two planes carrying dozens of parachutists collided in midair Thursday over western Slovakia, killing seven people, officials said. Thirty-one others on board survived by jumping out with their parachutes.
| 21/08/2015 18:30 |
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Kathmandu: The finance ministers of SAARC nations on Thursday decided to create an economic union for economic integration in the region.
| 21/08/2015 18:20 |
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Athens: Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday announced he is resigning and has called an early election.
| 20/08/2015 21:15 |
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Islamabad: Pakistan today announced that it will not host next month’s Commonwealth Parliamentary Union meeting amid a row with India over its refusal to invite the Speaker of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly for the conference.
| 20/08/2015 21:11 |
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Islamabad: Resorting to rhetoric ahead of the first-ever NSA-level talks, Pakistan has accused India of involvement in terrorism, saying "enemy" within the country gets money from abroad to create law and order problem.
| 20/08/2015 21:07 |
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Karachi: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today inaugurated construction work on a China-backed USD 10 billion nuclear power plant here.
| 20/08/2015 21:05 |
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Bangkok: Thailand today said over 10 people were involved in carefully plotting the deadly attack at the Brahma temple here while ruling out involvement of global terror groups, even as it sought Interpol help in tracking down a foreign man suspected of planting explosives.
| 20/08/2015 21:02 |
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Islamabad: Unfazed by India’s strong reservations, Pakistan today said it will go ahead with its engagement with Kashmiri separatist leaders when National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz goes to New Delhi for talks with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval on Sunday.
| 20/08/2015 21:00 |
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New Delhi: Iran has asked India to pay within two months $6.5 billion in past oil dues, partly in rupees and rest in dollars or euros, a top official said.
| 20/08/2015 20:54 |
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New York: While Facebook and Twitter have a dedicated user base that constantly use the social networking sites, they fail to attract more new users, according to a new survey.
| 20/08/2015 20:51 |
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Washington: A NASA spacecraft has confirmed for the first time that the Moon's thin atmosphere contains neon, a gas commonly used in electric signs on Earth because of its intense glow.
| 20/08/2015 20:48 |
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Washington: After investigating the "Marias Pass" region where it found a geological contact zone and rocks that are unexpectedly high in silica and hydrogen content, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has now moved to an entirely new location on the Red Planet.
| 20/08/2015 19:13 |
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Cairo: A large bomb exploded early Thursday near a national security building in the Shubra neighbourhood of Cairo, wounding at least six people including at least one police officer, Egyptian security officials said.
| 20/08/2015 19:06 |
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Santiago: Chilean astronomer Maritza Soto has discovered a planet three times as large as Jupiter orbiting a red giant star larger than the Sun and located some 290 million light years from Earth.
| 20/08/2015 17:48 |
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Islamabad: Pakistan and Russia signed a landmark defence deal that includes the sale of four Mi-35 'Hind E' attack helicopters to Pakistan.
| 20/08/2015 17:40 |
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Bangkok: Thai police said on Wednesday the prime suspect in the bombing of a Bangkok religious shrine in which 20 people died was overheard speaking a foreign language other than English.
| 20/08/2015 17:36 |
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Colombo: Ranil Wickremesinghe, set to return as Sri Lanka's premier for a fourth term, today appealed to all political parties to work together to heal the divisions of the past as he began piecing together a new national unity government with possible support from minority Tamils.
| 20/08/2015 13:38 |
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Bangkok: Thailand police today released a sketch of a young "foreign man" suspected of carrying out a bombing at a hugely popular Lord Brahma temple, that killed at least 20 people, and offered a 1 million baht reward for any information in tracing him down along with his accomplices.
| 19/08/2015 13:43 |
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Washington: The United States expressed concern on Tuesday regarding Israel's treatment of US citizens travelling to the country following recent reports of Palestinian-Americans being denied entry.
| 19/08/2015 13:40 |
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Ankara: The Islamic State militant group posted a video in Turkish on Tuesday threatening Ankara and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by calling on Muslim citizens to join the fight and conquer the capital.
| 19/08/2015 13:38 |
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Palo Alto, California: The office has all the trappings of a high-tech startup. There's a giant beanbag in the foyer and erasable, white board walls for brainstorming. Someone's pet dog lounges happily on the sunny balcony.
| 19/08/2015 13:30 |
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Moscow: Another summer, another trip to the bottom of a sea for Russia's adventure-loving president.
| 19/08/2015 13:27 |
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United Nations: The UN Security Council has condemned attacks against civilians in Syria and underscored the need for a political transition to end the conflict that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the country.
| 19/08/2015 13:25 |
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Washington: US Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton distanced herself from President Barack Obama's fresh approval for offshore drilling in the Arctic.
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