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Canberra: Australian police issued an arrest warrant today for an Australian doctor who appeared in an Islamic State movement recruitment video urging Western medical professionals to join him in Syria. Tareq Kamleh, a 29-year-old…
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New York: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) here and also toured the trading floor of the world's largest stock exchange. Jaitley, who began his 10-day trip to the US on…
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Beirut:  Four children were among seven civilians killed in renewed rebel rocket fire on government-held areas of Syria's second city Aleppo, a monitoring group said today. Yesterday's fire came despite UN condemnation of a massive barrage…
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Washington: A bipartisan amendment to Intelligence Authorization Act 2016 seeking expansion of trilateral national security cooperation among the US, Israel and India has been passed by the US House of Representatives. The amendment, moved…
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Washington: A powerful US Congressman has said the time has come for the US military to recruit Sikh Americans in its ranks as a rule and not as an exception. Joe Crowley, 53, also welcomed a federal court's decision to allow a 20-year-old…
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Kathmandu: Nepal today appealed to the international community to send tourists to its famed heritage sites to revive its ailing tourism industry as it reopened another heritage palace complex, nearly two months after deadly earthquakes…
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Tunis: At least 14 people were killed and 70 injured when a passenger train hit a lorry south of the Tunisian capital today, the transport and interior ministries said. Most of the dead were passengers on the train, which derailed, the…
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New York: A 20-year-old Sikh-American student has won a significant legal battle in the US with a court allowing him to enrol in an army programme without removing his articles of faith like the beard and turban. US District Court Judge…
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Dhaka: Bangladesh's Supreme Court today upheld the death sentence against the second highest ranking leader of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami for war crimes, including massacre of intelligentsia during the liberation war against…
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Ban Ki-moonUnited Nations: Emphasising that yoga does not discriminate, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he discovered the "simple sense of satisfaction" it brings when he tried his first "asana" during his visit to India. In his…
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