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Washington : Almost two-thirds of Americans feel that the current Congress is "the worst in their lifetime", and just 14 percent of those surveyed approve of the way lawmakers are doing their jobs, according to a survey released by…
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Riyadh :  A Pakistani has been executed in Saudi Arabia for smuggling large quantity of heroin. Kamran Ghulam Abbas was found guilty of smuggling drugs in the nation's Eastern province, the interior ministry said in a statement. He was…
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Washington :  A series of tweets by the Islamic State (IS) have called for retribution against the micro-blogging site Twitter, threatening to assassinate its employees. In a first direct call for attacks on Twitter, the IS tweets asked…
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Geneva :  The number of people infected by the Ebola virus disease in West Africa reached 4,269 as of Tuesday, while the total number of related deaths stood at 2,288, according to World Health Organisation (WHO) officials. The virus has…
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Washington : South Asian, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Middle Eastern, and Arab communities face an increasingly hostile climate in the US, according to a new report by an umbrella community organisation. The report "Under Suspicion, Under Attack"…
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Havana :  The grandsons of noted American author Ernest Hemingway visited a Cuban fishing village which inspired the author to write "The Old Man and the Sea" which fetched him a Nobel Prize 60 years ago. On the 60th anniversary of their…
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Washington :  US President Barack Obama Monday pledged continued "close" cooperation with Iraq on combating the Islamic State (IS) militant group as the Middle East country's parliament okayed a new government. In a phone conversation…
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United Nations : UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon Monday welcomed the formation of a new government in Iraq, saying that it "is a positive step towards political stability and peace in the country". "The secretary-general welcomes…
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Beijing :  The annual moon festival is being celebrated Monday all across China. Though the origins of celebrating the festival remain unknown, people make a round golden-coloured pastry called "tuanyuan" or the moon cake, stuffed with…
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Kolkata : With the government yet to give the go ahead to the football contingent for the Incheon Asian Games, both the men and women's teams are stranded in China where they had gone for an exposure tour ahead of the big event. "The teams…
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