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Peshawar:  At least 23 militants were killed when Pakistani fighter jets today pounded terrorist hideouts in the restive North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border. Military fighter jets targeted militant hideouts in Dattakhel…
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Peshawar:  A senior Taliban commander, believed to be a key planner in the Peshawar school massacre, has been killed by the security forces in Pakistan's troubled Khyber Agency. "Saddam had been killed in the Gundi area of Jamrud by the…
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Los Angeles: Rapper Eminem says "he is gay" in the controversial film 'The Interview'. Eminem, 42, came in a cameo as a celebrity on a TV show 'Skylark Tonight' in the movie, where he talked about his music before casually saying that he's…
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Islamabad: Pakistan's interior ministry has decided to detain over 6,000 terror suspects from across the country after a list naming them was prepared, a media report said Friday. The ministry has issued orders to all the four provinces…
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Khartoum: Sudan has ordered two senior United Nations officials to leave, a UN spokesman has said, after a recent spike in tensions between Khartoum and the peacekeeping mission in Darfur. UN resident coordinator and humanitarian…
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Port-au-Prince : Haitian President Michel Martelly has named veteran politician Evans Paul prime minister to lead a new government, as he seeks to defuse a crisis over long-delayed elections. The announcement followed the resignation of…
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Vatican City:  Pope Francis today roundly condemned jihadist violence and the "brutal persecution" of religious minorities in a Christmas message to the world's 1.2 billion Catholics and millions of others. Speaking to a packed crowd…
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Dubai:  UAE-based Emirates airline will round off 2014 as the carrier with the world's largest wide-body passenger fleet of 218 aircraft, in addition to 14 freighters, the company said in a statement. Following two consecutive years of…
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United Nations:  Terror wrought by the feared Islamic State, Ebola crisis, Syrian civil war, Gaza war and unrest in Ukraine posed significant challenges for the United Nations in 2014, a year that ended with a message of harmony from India…
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Toronto: Canada needs structural reforms in its immigration policies to attract foreign students and must consider granting them permanent residency rights, a top official of the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce has said. "The existing…
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