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Islamabad :  At least 910 militants and 82 Pakistani soldiers have been killed in operation Zarb-i-Azb in North Waziristan, the military said Wednesday. The statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) added that 27…
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New York :  Console games downloaded over broadband internet are causing more greenhouse gas emissions than Blu-ray discs delivered via retail stores, new research reveals. It is not always true that digital distribution of media will have…
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Washington : NASA has invited the public to submit short messages and images on social media that could be placed in a time capsule aboard a spacecraft to be launched in 2016 for an asteroid study. Called the Origins-Spectral…
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Ottawa :  Canada is participating in NATO's war game in Latvia, the Canadian Department of National Defence said. The "Operation Reassurance" refers to military activities conducted by the Canadian armed forces to support NATO measures,…
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Baghdad :  US warplanes Tuesday dropped thousands of leaflets on the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, urging residents to keep clear of places occupied by the Islamic State (IS) extremist group that overran the city in June. The leaflets were…
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Jerusalem : Israel's former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appeared before a Jerusalem court Tuesday after the state prosecution reopened a corruption case against him. Olmert was acquitted in what came to be known as the "Talansky Affair" in…
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Cairo :  As many as 7,219 people have been killed in Syria in August as fierce fighting continued due to the three-year-old civil war in the country, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday. At least 2,015 civilians, including…
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New York :  Men who are physically active are at lower risk of nocturia - waking up at night to urinate, says a study. Nocturia is the most common and bothersome lower urinary tract affliction in men. "Combined with other management…
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Shimla : Tabo, an ancient seat of Buddhist religion and culture in picturesque Spiti Valley in Himachal Pradesh in northern India, will now have an international learning centre. Baudh Darshan, which will help preserve the ancient seat of…
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Geneva :  The World Health Organisation Tuesday said the outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is "a distinct and independent event", with no relationship to the epidemic in West Africa. Based on virus sequencing of samples from…
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