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Trump denounces Wolff’s book as ‘full of lies’
Washington: US President Donald Trump today dismissed as "full of lies" a new explosive book about his administration that has taken the White House by storm after his lawyers failed to block its release.
Trump tweeted that he gave author…
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US suspends over USD 1.1 bn assistance to Pak over terror groups
Washington: Toughening its stance, the US today suspended more than USD 1.15 billion security assistance to Pakistan for failing to take "decisive actions" against terror groups like the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani Network operating from…
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18 killed, about 260 injured in South Africa train crash
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Johannesburg: A passenger train carrying people home after the holidays slammed into a truck in rural South Africa on Thursday, killing at least 18 people and injuring about 260 others, authorities said.
Officials said the truck…
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Japan’s Abe: N Korea should change course, end nuke programme
Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says North Korea should change its policies to help enrich its people.
Abe told reporters today that Japan would do its utmost, working with the US and South Korea, to pressure Pyongyang to shift…
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Israeli jets bombard Hamas positions in Gaza
Jerusalem: Israeli jets bombarded Hamas bases in Gaza overnight in response to rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave, the military said today.
"In response to the projectiles fired at southern Israeli communities throughout yesterday…
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Pak releases another ‘confessional’ video of Jadhav
Islamabad: Pakistan today released another video of Indian death row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav purportedly confessing that he was a commissioned officer of the Indian Navy and that the diplomat who was accompanying his family for the…
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S Korea”s Park ”took money from spy agency”: reports
Seoul: Ousted South Korean president Park Geun-Hye is to be charged with accepting millions of dollars worth of bribes from the state spy agency, news reports said today.
Park allegedly received between 50 and 200 million won (now USD…
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Iran says Trump’s ‘absurd tweets’ have incited disruption
United Nations: Iran today charged that the US "has crossed every limit" in international relations by expressing support for Iran's anti-government protesters and said President Donald Trump's "absurd tweets" have encouraged disruption.…
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Pak playing double game on fighting terrorism: US
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Washington/United Nations: Pakistan has been playing a "double game" for years on fighting terrorism, the US has said and made it clear that Islamabad will have to "earn" American aid worth millions of dollars by taking decisive…
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My nuclear button is ‘more powerful’: Trump tells North Korea
Washington: US President Donald Trump today warned that his "nuclear button" is "much bigger and more powerful" than the one controlled by North Korea's Kim Jong Un, as the White House said it was keeping all of its options on the table to…
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