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Islamabad: A Pakistani court today issued non-bailable arrest warrant against former military dictator Pervez Musharraf and ordered police to present him in the court in the murder case of Lal Masjid cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who was…
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Beijing: Three passengers and a conductor are missing after a minibus fell into a river in east China's Jiangxi Province. The accident occurred yesterday in Anyuan District, Pingxiang City when the minibus lost control after colliding with…
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New York: From being in the midst of a disturbed neighbourhood, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India's relations with its neighbours have improved, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said. New Delhi is interested in…
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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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