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Beijing: China has busted 181 terror groups in Muslim-majority Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, authorities said today, a year after the controversial anti- terror campaign was launched in the province bordering countries like Pakistan and…
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Karachi: Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain's son has escaped unhurt in a roadside bomb attack that killed at least three persons in the restive Balochistan province. The explosion occurred yesterday outside a restaurant in the Hub…
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A total of 139 grave sites and 28 human-trafficking camps have been found in a remote northern Malaysian border region, the country's top police official told reporters today. National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar revealed the findings at…
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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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