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United Nations,  (PTI) The United Nations General Assembly today elected Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and Venezuela as the new non-permanent members of the Security Council for a two-year term beginning in January next year. The…
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Baghdad,  (AP) Militants unleashed a wave of attacks in Iraq today, mainly targeting Shiite areas in and around the capital of Baghdad, killing at least 50 people and wounding dozens, authorities said. The Islamic State group has overrun…
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Washington, Oct 16 (PTI) Indian-American Vanita Gupta, a top lawyer from American Civil Liberties Union, has been appointed to head the civil rights division of the US Justice Department, becoming the first South Asian to hold this post.…
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New York, Oct 15 (PTI) A 28-year-old Indian has been sentenced to death in the US for killing an Indian baby and her grandmother in a 2012 kidnapping plot that went horribly wrong after a trial during which the accused said he would…
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Islamabad, Oct 15 (PTI) At least five persons were killed today when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a peace committee meeting in Pakistan's troubled Khyber tribal district near Afghan border. The bomber targeted members of peace…
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Kashmir issue New Delhi: Snubbing Pakistan for taking the issue of Jammu and Kashmir to the United Nations, India said that it was a tactic that will not work. Syed Akbaruddin, spokesperson, Ministry of External Affairs, said on…
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UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan's latest efforts seeking UN intervention on the Kashmir issue have failed to draw any new response from the world body which reiterated that India and Pakistan need to resolve all differences through dialogue to…
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United Nations, Oct 14 (PTI) Pakistan's latest efforts seeking UN intervention on the Kashmir issue have failed to draw any new response from the world body which reiterated that India and Pakistan need to resolve all differences through…
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Johannesburg, Oct 13 (AFP) Fallen paralympic hero Oscarreturns to court today at the start of his sentencing hearing after he was convicted of culpable homicide in the killing of his girlfriend, with his lawyers set to argue for leniency.…
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Islamabad, Oct 12 (PTI) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the chief of Pakistan People's Party, today said that the vexed issue of Kashmir was the root cause of hostility between India and Pakistan. "Much of the ensuing hostility in the…
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