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 AGENCY Peshawar: Four persons have been arrested in Pakistan for facilitating the deadly Taliban attack on a prestigious university in the country's northwest that killed 21 people, mostly students, the military announced on Saturday. "We…
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Colombo: Sri Lanka has formed a three-member panel to probe an organised organ harvesting racket involving patients and donors from India, two days after it banned kidney transplants for foreign nationals. The panel consisting of two lady…
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Lahore: Police killed three al-Qaeda terrorists in a shootout in Pakistan's Punjab province, thwarting a major terror attack, an official said today. According to a Counter-Terrorism Department spokesman, a team of police personnel last…
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Washington: A life-threatening blizzard which is expected to pound a record 30 inches of snow has hit most part of the US' east coast including Capital Washington DC, leaving more than 120,000 homes without electricity and paralysing lives…
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New Delhi: In a nationwide swoop, NIA along with state police forces and central security agencies today claimed to have averted a major attack with the arrest of 13 'sympathisers' of banned ISIS terror group including their self-styled…
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Mogadishu: A police official says Somalia's security forces have ended a deadly siege of a beachfront restaurant in the capital, with more than 20 people killed in the attack. Capt Mohamed Hussein, speaking from the scene of the attack in…
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Washington: US President Barack Obama has called German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis as part of his efforts to garner support for hosting a high-level summit on refugees at the UN later this year.…
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Los Angeles: A former police office from the state of Oklahoma was sentenced to 263 years prison for raping and sexually abusing African-American women while on duty. Daniel Holtzclaw was found guilty in December of rape and oral sodomy in…
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Washington: Pakistan and Afghanistan need to work together to effectively overcome the Taliban challenge, the White House said, a day after the militant group massacred 21 people, mostly students, at a popular Pakistani university. "The…
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Tokyo: The Japanese Cabinet approved today the lifting of sanctions on Iran, following the recent completion of a landmark deal to try to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. The widely expected move will allow Japanese companies…
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