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Washington: President Donald Trump said today he had ordered more robust "extreme vetting" of travellers coming into the US in the aftermath of the first deadly terror attack in New York since the September 11, 2001 carnage in the city. At…
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Washington: At least eight people were killed and 11 other injured in Lower Manhattan today after a gunman in a truck plowed through a busy bike path, an incident the US termed as an "act of terrorism". The suspect, a 29-year-old man, was…
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Agency Kabul: A suicide bomber believed to be as young as 12 struck Kabul's heavily fortified diplomatic quarter on Tuesday and killed at least five people, showing that militants can still hit the heart of the city despite tighter…
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Dhaka: Myanmar has proposed taking back the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled to Bangladesh in recent weeks, the Bangladeshi foreign minister said after talks Monday with a senior Myanmar representative. "The talks were held…
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Washington: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has publicly apologised for the social-media platform's negative effects and asked for forgiveness for his work that was used to divide people rather than uniting them. Zuckerberg, 33, did not…
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Islamabad: An anti-corruption court in Pakistan today postponed the indictment of ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on charges of corruption in the Panama Papers scandal. Sharif, 67, arrived at the accountability court amid tight security…
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Agency Los Angeles: A gunman killed at least 58 people and wounded more than 500 others when he opened fire on a country music concert in Las Vegas in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. Police said the gunman, a 64-year-old…
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Toronto: Jagmeet Singh, a 38-year-old Sikh criminal lawyer, was today elected the leader of Canada's New Democratic Party, becoming the first non-white politician to head a major party in the country. Singh, the Ontario provincial…
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Washington: US President Donald Trump has warned his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that negotiations with North Korea were a "waste of time" and said he "won't fail" on a front where three of his predecessors Bill Clinton, George W Bush…
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Manchester: British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party gathers today for its annual conference, dominated by questions about her leadership and splits on Brexit. Four months after losing her parliamentary majority in a June…
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