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Kathmandu: The danger of a possible flash flood in Nepal and India was averted today as a landslide- dammed river started flowing normally after sweeping away debris that had blocked it, allowing thousands of people to return to their…
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Washington: The US has accused Iraqi forces of showing "no will to fight" Islamic State fighters who seized a crucial city west of the capital, Baghdad, and rejected calls to commit ground troops to the conflict. The Iraqi forces defeated…
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Beirut: The Islamic State group has executed at least 217 people, including civilians, in and around the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra in the last nine days, a monitor has said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights yesterday said it…
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Islamabad: Pakistan has expressed serious concern over Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar's remarks that "terrorists have to be neutralised only through terrorists," saying his comments confirms its suspicion about India's involvement in…
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Kathmandu: Three mild tremors today struck Kathmandu and surrounding areas, keeping people on edge in Nepal, battered by the April 25 earthquake and aftershocks that killed nearly 9,000 people. A tremor measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale…
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Sydney: A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea in the early hours today, US geologists said, but there were no warnings it had triggered a tsunami. The quake hit around 58 kilometres southwest of Taron, Papua New Guinea at…
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New Delhi: India is planning to ask Pakistan to seize assets of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and most wanted terrorists Hafiz Saeed and Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi as all three are in the UNSC's al Qaeda sanctions list which makes it…
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Kathmandu: Over 300 people, including 89 foreigners, are still missing after two powerful, devastating earthquakes struck Nepal, claiming nearly 9,000 lives. About 240 Nepalese nationals and 89 foreigners are still missing since the…
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Islamabad: At least four death-row prisoners were executed today in different jails of Punjab province in Pakistan, the government said. The convicts were sent to the gallows in jails in Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan and Sahiwal. An official…
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Kathmandu: The death toll following the two devastating earthquakes that have struck Nepal has reached 8,635 with over 300 people, including 89 foreigners, still missing. At least 79 foreigners, including 49 Indians have been killed in the…
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