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Beijing: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be accorded a rare "highest-level reception" by President Xi Jinping as the two leaders look to deepen their personal ties, Chinese official media said today. "Modi will begin his first trip to…
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Washington: Some elements within Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI may have had knowledge of Osama bin Laden's whereabouts, but the raid that killed the al-Qaeda chief was a unilateral American military operation, according to a senior US…
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Karachi: At least 41 people from minority Shia Ismaili community were today killed and several others injured after eight gunmen entered their bus and opened indiscriminate fire on the passengers in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi,…
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Kathmandu: Fresh tremors today struck Nepal where thousands of fear-stricken people spent the night in the open after a powerful earthquake killed 65 people, as the nightmare continued for the country already devastated by a temblor over…
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Washington: A US Marine Corps helicopter carrying out earthquake relief in Nepal was reported missing today with eight personnel on board, officials said. "The incident occurred near Charikot, Nepal while the aircraft was conducting…
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Beirut: Syrian government helicopters have dropped a barrel bomb in a neighbourhood in the northern city of Aleppo, hitting a busy bus depot and killing at least 28 people, activists said. The attack on the Jisr al-Haj neighbourhood…
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Lahore: A Pakistani court has set free 97 Hindus, including women and children, who had been kept as bonded labourers at a brick kiln in Pakistan's Punjab province for the last four years. Lahore High Court Justice Atir Mehmood yesterday…
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Washington: With the world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden spending several years in a mansion in Abbottabad, it is impossible to believe that none in Pakistan's security establishment knew about this hideout of the al-Qaeda chief,…
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New Delhi: A powerful earthquake measuring 7.1 on richter scale epicentred in Nepal shook West Bengal, Delhi and several parts of north India today, less than three weeks after the region was struck by a devastating temblor. "The quake…
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Dhaka: Suspected Islamists today hacked to death a secular blogger near his home in northeastern Bangladesh, the third such deadly attack since February in the Muslim-majority nation. Ananta Bijoy Das died instantly after a gang of masked…
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