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Melbourne: A teenage boy has been arrested in Australia for making a bomb threat online that led to the evacuation of iconic Sydney Opera House and the search of Manly ferry wharf last week. The 17-year-old boy was arrested yesterday and…
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Jerusalem: With India and Israel expanding cooperation to new areas like homeland security innovation and science and technology, Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has asked Israeli businesses to look beyond trade for building…
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Beijing: China's gross domestic product growth slowed to 6.9 per cent in 2015, official data showed today, the weakest annual rate in a quarter of a century for the world's second-largest economy, a mounting concern for global investors.…
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Washington: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says the FBI has not contacted her regarding its probe of whether she held classified information on her private email server. Asked on CNN's "State of the Union" whether she…
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Tehran: Iran today denounced "illegitimate" new sanctions by the United States on its ballistic missile programme, days after Tehran's historic nuclear deal with world powers was confirmed. "Iran's missile programme has never been designed…
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Baghdad: US and local authorities are searching for three American citizens who were reportedly kidnapped in Baghdad, officials from the two countries have said. Kidnappings are a major problem in Baghdad and other parts of the country and…
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Ouagadougou: Burkina Faso has begun three days of national mourning and the president said security would be stepped up in the capital and the country's borders after al-Qaida militants killed at least 28 people in an attack on a hotel and…
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 agency Washington/Vienna: The US and the EU on Sunday lifted biting oil and financial sanctions on Iran and released about USD 100 billion of its assets after UN inspectors concluded that Tehran has complied with a historic deal with world…
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United Nations: UN Secretary-General today welcomed implementation of the landmark Iran nuclear deal as a "significant milestone" and hoped it will boost peace, security and stability in the region. The international sanctions were lifted…
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Ouagadougou: The Al-Qaida fighters who stormed a popular hangout in Burkina Faso's capital at dinnertime came with a mission to kill as many people as possible, firing at people as they moved to a nearby hotel and setting the cafe ablaze,…
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